Living Noise to Combat Loneliness Amongst Older UK Adults - First Insights

Förster, Frank, Warmoth, Krystal, Celiktutan, Oya, Durosaiye, Isaiah and Menon, Catherine (2024) Living Noise to Combat Loneliness Amongst Older UK Adults - First Insights. In: 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2024, 2024-11-24 - 2024-11-27.

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Loneliness is rising amongst several age groups in several countries with older UK adults being one of the affected populations. Early work from South Korea on the use of a network of social robots exchanging activity information between different households, so-called g living noise', yielded positive results in incentivizing communication between young professionals, thereby reducing loneliness. In this short article, we report the results of a co-design workshop held with lonely, older UK adults that aimed to determine the potential of adoption of living noise transmission amongst this population. The results were encouraging and will feed into future work involving the deployment of robots and virtual avatars in people's homes.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Other)
Identification Number	10.1145/3687272.3690887
Additional information	© 2024 The Author(s). This is the accepted manuscript version of a conference paper which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3690887
Keywords	human-agent interaction, human-robot interaction, loneliness, social robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 16:51
Last Modified	04 Feb 2026 01:05