Dolphins, dogs, and robot seals for the treatment of neurological disease

Burton, Adrian

doi:10.1016/s1474-4422(13)70206-0

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“…Both field studies and laboratory studies have demonstrated that robots can stimulate significant emotional attachment, which is further strengthened if the robot says the person's name or positively responds to the person's interaction with it [20,32,67]. In addition, studies with PARO (an robotic baby harp seal), which is used as a therapeutic device, indicate that interaction with the robotic seal has positive effects on quality of life, feelings of pleasure, and contributes to overall well-being [6,10]. Other results show that the participants feel less lonely and depressed if PARO is used at the care facility where they reside [30,53].…”

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“…Studies similar to ours have been criticised for involving a very small number of participants and/or of lacking critical control conditions [10]. However, the home trials were conducted as a part of a design process to collect and interpret potential participants' motivations, needs and wants regarding assistive robots to support independent living.…”

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Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Frennert

Eftring

Östlund

2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The current paper addresses the implications of doing research on socially assistive robots in real homes. In contrast to laboratory studies, studies of robots in their intended natural environments can provide insights into people's experiences of robots, and if and how a robot becomes embedded and used in people's everyday life. However, moving robots out of the lab and into real life environments poses several challenges. Laboratory methods mainly focus on cause-and-effect relations between independent and dependent variables, while researchers who are conducting studies in real homes have much less control. In home trials, researchers need to decide what kind of data is obtainable and available. In real homes, researchers face unique challenges that require unique and pragmatic approaches. Any single study conducted in a real home is likely to have methodological limitations. Therefore, several different studies using different robots and methods are needed before the results can be converged in order to reach conclusions that are convincingly supported. This paper is an effort to provide such a report on a specific empirical case and converging findings from other studies. The goal is to provide an account of the research challenges and opportunities encountered when introducing a robot into its intended practice: the homes of older people. The aim is to give enough details for other

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Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Frennert

Eftring

Östlund

2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…It is now known that specific inflammation causes myelin sheath demyelination of nerve fibers and due to that many problems occur in any (Burton, 2013;Narita, Ohtani, Waga, Ohta, Ishigooka, & Iwahashi, 2016;GirczysPołedniok, Pudlo, Szymlak, & Pasierb, 2014;Muñoz Lasa, Máximo Bocanegra, Valero Alcaide, Atín Arratibel, Varela Donoso, & Ferriero, 2015). However, it is not that effective by itself as it is combined with physiotherapy, massage, occupational therapy, physical therapy and alternative methods Cook, 2006, 271 p.) For some years now, researchers all over the world have been combining different therapies, searching for alternative therapies in order to control MS.…”

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Proceedings of the Iii International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological Health of the Person: Life Resource and Life Potential”

2017

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The Proceedings cover different aspects of mental health research concerned with human life resource and life potential, as well as applied aspects of health psychology.The editorial policy was based on the principles of selection and reviewing of all submitted manuscripts. At the first stage all the manuscripts underwent an initial review by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board before peer-review in order to assess whether their content complied with the Conference theme. The manuscripts which did not comply with the subject matter of the Conference have been rejected. At the second stage all the manuscripts underwent a double blind review process: each work was reviewed by two experts from the Board of Reviewers; reviewing procedure was anonymous both for the experts and authors.In case of positive review results provided by both experts the contributions were included in the Editor-in-Chief Portfolio. At the third stage manuscripts underwent scientific style as well as language literacy assessment and language editing. This work was carried out by the team of Language Editors. Based on the results of the three stages of reviewing the list of the manuscripts recommended for the publication in the Conference Proceedings has been defined.The problem of assessment, prophylaxis and preserving human psychological health is of utmost importance today. Its relevance is determined, first, by the fact that both a person and his / her development as a healthy and autonomous personality represent a subject of a psychological research. Second, recent global transformations impose special requirements to the person seeking for health preservation, self-development, and self-actualisation. Among these requirements there is readiness to act in new, unpredictable conditions, to make decisions in unstable situations and to bear responsibility for one's decisions. To meet these requirements, a person should be able to see opportunities for self-development and self-fulfillment in the surrounding world, finding new meanings of his / her life activity.Existence of life resource and life potential expands the scope of any person's activities, turning the person's significant life purposes into more achievable ones. Resources are known to subjectively increase the value of a person both in his / her self-perception and in the eyes of others, making the person stronger, more prominent and proactive.Among various human resources health is a fundamental one. At the same time, life potential is not a less important characteristic, since it ensures human capacity to create, develop and use life conditions, factors and circumstances which are beneficial for an organism.Considering human health through the prism of life potential, it is necessary that the value of health within culture of its formation should be the highest, being defined not so much by the need for self-preservation but for self-improvement.The presented Proceedings are the result of both scientific studies in Psychology and fruitful and prospective long-term inte...

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“…But there are less approaches that aim to affect human's psychological state with active behavior of robot. Paro [7] was developed in order to commit human's mental state, but it can only react to the human's affection in passive ways.…”

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Bipedal humanoid robot that makes humans laugh with use of the method of comedy and affects their psychological state actively

Kishi

Endo

Nozawa

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Dolphins, dogs, and robot seals for the treatment of neurological disease

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Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Proceedings of the Iii International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological Health of the Person: Life Resource and Life Potential”

Bipedal humanoid robot that makes humans laugh with use of the method of comedy and affects their psychological state actively

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