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How Co-design and Personas can Inform Game Implementation for Robot-assisted Speech Therapy in Clinical Settings

2025· article· W4415821835 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicPersona Design and Applications
Canadian institutionsBrampton Civic HospitalUniversity of Northern British ColumbiaUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPersonaUsabilityRobotGame designHuman–robot interaction

Abstract

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This paper presents a co-designed robot system developed through an 22-month collaboration with Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) for the use in real-world therapeutic setting. We created persona profiles of SLPs and children with speech and language challenges to inform the development of five game types for two age groups (0-4 and 5-9 years). The system integrates a robot platform with a web-based application that facilitates real-time interaction during therapy sessions. Each game addresses specific therapeutic needs, using the developed child personas as a reference point. Prototype testing with SLPs through role-playing sessions revealed usability insights that led to system refinements, including enhanced robot dialogue, age-appropriate content adjustments, and additional interactive features. The resulting system demonstrates how human-centered design can create robotic system that addresses the practical challenges faced by SLPs and children in therapeutic settings.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.967
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.087
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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