Young Carers on Social Robots : Introducing Teenagers as Informal Caregivers to HRI
This paper presents a participatory, qualitative focus group study with 13 young carers -- young people between 13 to 18 years old who take care of a parent due to either a chronic illness, mental health problem, or other condition connected with a need for care in Wales and England. We identify and assert young carers as an important, thus far unconsidered, user group in Human-Robot Interaction (