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Its potential in multiple sclerosis (MS) remains largely unexplored, although MS affects sensory-motor, cognitive, and psychological domains where SAR could offer substantial benefits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec sec-type=\"objective\">\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study aimed to evaluate the usability of a humanoid robot in people with MS, compare it with age-matched healthy individuals (HIs), and explore usability predictors. Automated written-language analysis was tested as a complementary approach.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec sec-type=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this 2025 cross-sectional study at the Italian MS Foundation laboratory, 20 people with MS (mean age 51.4, SD 11.0 years; n=13, 65% female; mean education 13.0, SD 3.4 years) and 20 age-matched HIs (mean age 47.3, SD 10.1 years; n=12, 60% female; mean education 14.8, SD 2.2 years) completed 4 predefined tasks with the robot Pepper. Usability was assessed using the System Usability Scale (SUS). Attitudes toward robots, robot-related factors, and task-related effort were measured with the General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS), Godspeed questionnaire, and NASA-TLX, respectively. Psychological variables (eg, personality traits from the Italian Ten-Item Personality Inventory [I-TIPI]) and clinical characteristics for people with MS (eg, cognitive functions via the app DIGICOG-MS, upper-limb difficulties with the Arm Function in Multiple Sclerosis [AMSQ]) were collected. Written responses to open-ended questions were analyzed using natural language processing (NLP).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      SUS scores exceeded the standard cut-off in both groups, with no between-group differences (people with MS: mean 81.00, SD 12.31; HIs: mean 77.75, SD 11.24;\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.14, 95% CI 0.01-0.42;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.39), indicating high usability. People with MS reported more negative attitudes toward robots at the societal level (GAToRS S\u2013:\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.36, 95% CI 0.08-0.63;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.02) and judged Pepper as more anthropomorphic (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.42, 95% CI 0.15-0.67;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.007) and intelligent (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.37, 95% CI 0.09-0.61;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.02) than HIs. Anthropomorphism was strongly associated with visuospatial memory (DIGICOG-MS: \u03c1=\u20130.632, 95% CI \u20130.84 to \u20130.26;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.003) and relatively strong with both verbal memory (DIGICOG-MS: \u03c1=\u20130.504, 95% CI \u20130.77 to \u20130.08];\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.02) and agreeableness (I-TIPI: \u03c1=0.491, 95% CI 0.06-0.77;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =.03). Exploratory forward stepwise regression showed that conscientiousness (I-TIPI:\n                      <jats:italic>B<\/jats:italic>\n                      =2.064, 95% CI 0.679-3.449), negative personal attitudes toward robots (GAToRS P\u2013:\n                      <jats:italic>B<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.169, 95% CI 0.033-0.306), and perceived upper-limb difficulties (AMSQ:\n                      <jats:italic>B<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.169, 95% CI 0.033-0.306) explained 64% of SUS variance (adjusted\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00b2=0.568); task-related frustration (NASA-TLX:\n                      <jats:italic>B<\/jats:italic>\n                      =\u20131.497, 95% CI \u20132.276 to \u20130.719) explained 48% (adjusted\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00b2=0.451). NLP analyses revealed no between-group differences in lexical productivity or sentiment-lexicon coverage.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study provides first preliminary evidence that people with MS perceive a social robot as highly usable, comparably to HIs, suggesting MS-related challenges may not hinder human-robot interaction. Psychological factors, prior attitudes toward robots, and clinical characteristics were associated with user experience in the MS group. 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