The value of social robots supporting informal care: a discrete choice experiment among informal caregivers
Petra Baji·M Péntek·Dominik Golicki·Zsombor Zrubka·Tamás Haidegger·Anikó Vágvölgyi·L Gulácsi·Elsa M. R. Marques·Levente Kovács
To elicit informal caregivers’ preferences and willingness to pay for using social robots to support informal care provision. We conducted an exploratory online discrete choice experiment in 2024 with 400 informal caregivers in Hungary and 400 Poland. We used a D-efficient fractional design with 40 pairs of robot profiles blocked into four sets, randomly assigned to respondents. Robots were described by appearance, size, function, availability of remote monitoring, availability of a built-in eme