{"id":13066,"date":"2026-10-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:40:51","slug":"new-publication-in-international-journal-of-social-robotics-understanding-older-adults-and-caretakers-attitudes-toward-social-robots-using-natural-language-processing-and-thematic-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/new-publication-in-international-journal-of-social-robotics-understanding-older-adults-and-caretakers-attitudes-toward-social-robots-using-natural-language-processing-and-thematic-a\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in International Journal of Social Robotics: Understanding Older Adults\u2019 And Caretakers\u2019 Attitudes Toward Social Robots Using Natural Language Processing and Thematic Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cUnderstanding Older Adults\u2019 And Caretakers\u2019 Attitudes Toward Social Robots Using Natural Language Processing and Thematic Analysis\u201d in International Journal of Social Robotics (October 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">The researchers interviewed 30 older adults and caretakers about three social robots: the pet-like Aibo, the toy-like Paro and the humanoid Pepper. Sentiment and thematic analysis of their answers showed that caretakers were negative toward Paro and positive toward Aibo and Pepper. The findings can guide how social robots are designed and introduced into elder care.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Beg\u00fcm \u00c7onka, <strong>Burcu Aysen Urgen<\/strong>, Yasemin Afacan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12369-026-01448-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cUnderstanding Older Adults\u2019 And Caretakers\u2019 Attitudes Toward Social Robots Using Natural Language Processing and Thematic Analysis\u201d in International Journal of Social Robotics (October 2026). The researchers interviewed 30 older adults and caretakers about three social robots: the pet-like Aibo, the toy-like Paro and the humanoid Pepper. Sentiment and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13188,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions\/13188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}