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. 2017 Jun 30;8:950. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00950

Table 1.

Description of control tabs from the main interface.

Control tab Description
Home Set of parameters allowing personalization of the session : participant's name, personalized content for music themes, themes for cognitive stimulation (questions/answers), and mimes for the session.
Introduction Set of parameters allowing the robot to greet participants, introduce itself and make a first “well-mannered” contact with the user: asking the participant how he feels, or what he did for a living; the robot can laugh if the user touches its head.
Motor Set of parameters used by the robot to introduce and model the physical exercises: the robot explains and performs breathing exercises (inhale and exhale), warm-up exercises, and various sequences of movements.
Cognitive stimulation 1 Set of parameters used by the robot to introduce and formulate cognitive exercises: playing music themes, performing a mime, asking questions, giving the answer to a question when the participant is not able to answer.
Cognitive stimulation 2 Set of parameters used by the robot to ask user questions about his/her body knowledge according to his/her level of cognitive impairment (three levels of difficulty) and to provide guidance in case of error: “touch my head,” “touch my right shoulder with your right index finger”; “I think this is my left shoulder,” or robot showing the answer using its body.
Body expression Set of parameters used by the robot to explain and perform a sequence of movements associated with sounds.
Conclusion Set of parameters used by the robot to thank the user for participating in the activity, say “goodbye” with a yawn, bending and switching off.