This paper describes a hands-off therapist robot that assists, encourages, socially interacts, monitors and reminds post-stroke users to use the weaker, stroke-affected limb. We investigate the role of the robot’s personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversion-introversion of the robot and the user. The experimental results show the ...

Modeling personality is important both for understanding human traits, and for designing artificial systems. Both aims are challenging. Studies of human personality suggest that personality traits such as extraversion and neuroticism have multiple correlates relating to many qualitatively different aspects of neural and cognitive functioning. The tri-level explanatory framework of cognitive sci...