Artificial intelligence technologies that can assist with at-home tasks have the potential to help older adults age in place. Robot assistance in particular has been applied towards physical and cognitive support for older adults living independently at home. Surveys, questionnaires, and group interviews have been used to understand what tasks older adults want robots to assist them with. We build upon prior work exploring older adults' task preferences for robot assistance through field interviews situated within older adults' aging contexts. Our findings support results from prior work indicating older adults' preference for physical assistance over social and care-related support from robots and indicating their preference for control when adopting robot assistance, while highlighting the variety of individual constraints, boundaries, and needs that may influence their preferences.

翻译：能够协助完成居家任务的人工智能技术有望帮助老年人实现居家养老。机器人辅助技术尤其被应用于为独立居家生活的老年人提供身体和认知支持。现有研究通过问卷调查、小组访谈等方式，已初步了解老年人希望机器人在哪些任务上提供帮助。本研究在已有成果基础上，通过在老年人实际养老场景中开展实地访谈，进一步探究其对机器人辅助的任务偏好。研究结果验证了前人发现：相较于社会交往和情感关怀类支持，老年人更偏好机器人的身体辅助功能；同时更倾向于自主控制机器人的使用方式。此外，研究揭示了可能影响其偏好的个体限制、边界和需求差异。