Enabling Non-Technical Domain Experts to Create Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Scenarios via Visual Programming

Abstract

In this paper, we present a visual programming software for enabling non-technical domain experts to create robot-assisted therapy scenarios for multiple robotic platforms. Our new approach is evaluated by comparing it with Choregraphe, the standard visual programming framework for the often used robotics platforms Pepper and NAO. We could show that our approach receives higher usability values and allows users to perform better in some practical tasks, including understanding, changing and creating small robot-assisted therapy scenarios.