Case studies on the usability, acceptability and functionality of autonomous mobile delivery robots in real-world healthcare settings

Law, Mikaela; Ahn, Ho Seok; Broadbent, Elizabeth; Peri, Kathy; Kerse, Ngaire; Topou, Eve; Gasteiger, Norina; MacDonald, Bruce A.

doi:10.1007/s11370-021-00368-5

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“…A wealth of research in the last two decades has explored how autonomous [45,76] and teleoperated [16,53] robots can directly deliver care to individuals in need. This body of literature has explored the specifc needs of people with disabilities or age-related challenges, such as difculty bathing due to limited mobility [43], and has developed robotic solutions that can address these needs, including assisting individuals with ADLs and IADLs [16,49].…”

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Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

Stegner

Mutlu

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Specifying robot task Simultaneous caregiver and robot tasksFigure 1: We conducted a feld study to fnd opportunities for robots to support caregivers in assisted and independent living settings. The fgure illustrates a potential scenario where a caregiver can specify routine tasks for the robot to perform. The caregiver can then engage in more meaningful interactions with residents while the robot completes more mundane tasks.

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Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

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Mutlu

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…The main area of this work is mobile robots, which play an increasingly primary role in our society. Due to rapid development of AI, powerful lithium batteries, and lowpower microchips, mobile robots are becoming cheaper, available to more people, and introduced in various areas of life, taking more significant roles in society and removing labor-intensive jobs in such areas as rescue operations [1][2][3], space exploration [4][5][6], military application [7,8] industrial use [9][10][11], underwater exploration [12][13][14], and healthcare applications [15][16][17], among others.…”

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Virtual Reality-Based Interface for Advanced Assisted Mobile Robot Teleoperation

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This work proposes a new interface for the teleoperation of mobile robots based on virtual reality that allows a natural and intuitive interaction and cooperation between the human and the robot, which is useful for many situations, such as inspection tasks, the mapping of complex environments, etc. Contrary to previous works, the proposed interface does not seek the realism of the virtual environment but provides all the minimum necessary elements that allow the user to carry out the teleoperation task in a more natural and intuitive way. The teleoperation is carried out in such a way that the human user and the mobile robot cooperate in a synergistic way to properly accomplish the task: the user guides the robot through the environment in order to benefit from the intelligence and adaptability of the human, whereas the robot is able to automatically avoid collisions with the objects in the environment in order to benefit from its fast response. The latter is carried out using the well-known potential field-based navigation method. The efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated through experimentation with the Turtlebot3 Burger mobile robot in both simulation and real-world scenarios. In addition, usability and presence questionnaires were also conducted with users of different ages and backgrounds to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed approach. In particular, the results of these questionnaires show that the proposed virtual reality based interface is intuitive, ergonomic and easy to use.

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“…A wealth of research in the last two decades has explored how autonomous [45,76] and teleoperated [16,53] robots can directly deliver care to individuals in need. This body of literature has explored the specific needs of people with disabilities or age-related challenges, such as difficulty bathing due to limited mobility [43], and has developed robotic solutions that can address these needs, including assisting individuals with ADLs and IADLs [16,49].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

Stegner,

Mutlu

2022

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Specifying robot task Simultaneous caregiver and robot tasksFigure 1: We conducted a field study to find opportunities for robots to support caregivers in assisted and independent living settings. The figure illustrates a potential scenario where a caregiver can specify routine tasks for the robot to perform. The caregiver can then engage in more meaningful interactions with residents while the robot completes more mundane tasks.

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Case studies on the usability, acceptability and functionality of autonomous mobile delivery robots in real-world healthcare settings

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

Virtual Reality-Based Interface for Advanced Assisted Mobile Robot Teleoperation

Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

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