Socially assistive robotics as a tool for psychometric diagnosis

The recent pandemic has prompted the generalization of a practice that was already spreading, albeit amidst many doubts and contrasts: the administration of psychodiagnostic tools not through direct interaction with the psychologist, but administered electronically and-or with artificial agents. To fully exploit the application of a social robot as a psychometric tool, it is necessary to account for the users' factors that might influence the interaction with a robot and the evaluation of user cognitive performance.