Usability and Acceptance of a Social Robot in People With Multiple Sclerosis: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Jessica Podda   ¹ , PhD ;   Alice Bollini   ¹ , PhD ;   Alessia Susini   ¹ , MSc ;   Domenico Presenza   ² , MSc ;   Keven T Kearney   ² , MSc ;   Ester Cecchella   ¹ , MD ;   Erica Grange   ^{1, 3} , MSc ;   Mario Alberto Battaglia   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Andrea Tacchino   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Giampaolo Brichetto   ^{1, 6 *} , MD, PhD

¹ neuroBRITE Research Center, Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Genoa, Italy

² R&I Lab, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A, Rome, Lazio, Italy

³ Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

⁴ Department of Life Science, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

⁵ Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Genoa, Italy

⁶ AISM Rehabilitation Service, Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society, Genoa, Italy

*these authors contributed equally