Assessing Acceptance of Assistive Social Agent Technology by Older Adults: the Almere Model

By Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Vanessa Evers, Bob J. Wielinga. 2010

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Population Ageing and Socially Assistive Robots for Elderly Persons: The Importance of Sociodemographic Factors for User Acceptance (2012, methodology): “[49] iCat The objective of this study is to develop a model for identifying the main influences on acceptance of socially assistive robots by elderly users None The Netherlands”
A Systematic Review of Attitudes, Anxiety, Acceptance, and Trust Towards Social Robots (2020, methodology): “Subscales of questionnaires relating to specific models such as the Almere Model of robot acceptance [15] and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT; [33]) were also used to measure cognitive attitudes [58–60].”
Investigating the Impact of User Trust on the Adoption and Use of ChatGPT: Survey Analysis (2023, unknown): “Prior research has established a positive correlation between intent to use and actual use of technology, indicating that users who intend to use the technology are more likely to actually use it [25,31,34].”
When stereotypes meet robots: The double-edge sword of robot gender and personality in human-robot interaction (2014, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated that the general acceptance model for technology remains predictive when it comes to studying user acceptance of social robots in the home (Ezer et al., 2009; Heerink et al., 2010).”
Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots (2017, background): “…of emotions expressed by the agents, believability (Bartneck et al. 2009), social presence (Harms and Biocca 2004), friendship, anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence (Bartneck et al. 2009), or intention to use the agent/system (the Almere questionnaire, for example (Heerink et al. 2010)).”