Healing Effects of Pet Robots at an Elderly-Care Facility

Nakashima, Toyoshiro; Fukutome, Goro; Ishii, Naohiro

doi:10.1109/icis.2010.53

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“…To date, the majority of outcomes that have been utilized to study socially assistive robots have demonstrated the positive response of elderly individuals to these types of robots, suggesting the potential for such robotic aids. However, these studies were mainly focused toward collecting data on the acceptance and use of animal-like robots (e.g., Heerink, Krose, Evers, & Wielinga, 2006;Nakashima & Fukutome, 2010;Shibata & Wada, 2010;), with one study considering perceptions toward a child-like robot exercise instructor (Fasola & Matarić, 2012). This latter study showed that individuals perceived the robotic exercise system to be intelligent and helpful, however, the study did not explicitly obtain feedback on the robot's human-like attributes.…”

Section: Measuring Technology Acceptance and Use By The Elderlymentioning

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Acceptance and Attitudes Toward a Human-like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults

Louie

McColl

Nejat

2014

Assistive Technology

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Recent studies have shown that cognitive and social interventions are crucial to the overall health of older adults including their psychological, cognitive, and physical well-being. However, due to the rapidly growing elderly population of the world, the resources and people to provide these interventions is lacking. Our work focuses on the use of social robotic technologies to provide person-centered cognitive interventions. In this article, we investigate the acceptance and attitudes of older adults toward the human-like expressive socially assistive robot Brian 2.1 in order to determine if the robot's human-like assistive and social characteristics would promote the use of the robot as a cognitive and social interaction tool to aid with activities of daily living. The results of a robot acceptance questionnaire administered during a robot demonstration session with a group of 46 elderly adults showed that the majority of the individuals had positive attitudes toward the socially assistive robot and its intended applications.

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Section: Measuring Technology Acceptance and Use By The Elderlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Acceptance and Attitudes Toward a Human-like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults

Louie

McColl

Nejat

2014

Assistive Technology

131

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“…PARO has found utility in several nursing homes. NeCoRo robots, designed to resemble cats, are capable of expressing emotions like satisfaction, surprise, and happiness while responding appropriately to user emotions and actions ( Nakashima et al, 2010 ). Clinical trials conducted in nursing homes show that NeCoRo effectively assists residents in improving communication and comfort among elderly individuals.…”

Section: Elderly-care Robots and Their Various Nursing Modesmentioning

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Research status of elderly-care robots and safe human-robot interaction methods

Zhao,

Sun,

Shan

et al. 2023

Front. Neurosci.

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Faced with the increasingly severe global aging population with fewer children, the research, development, and application of elderly-care robots are expected to provide some technical means to solve the problems of elderly care, disability and semi-disability nursing, and rehabilitation. Elderly-care robots involve biomechanics, computer science, automatic control, ethics, and other fields of knowledge, which is one of the most challenging and most concerned research fields of robotics. Unlike other robots, elderly-care robots work for the frail elderly. There is information exchange and energy exchange between people and robots, and the safe human-robot interaction methods are the research core and key technology. The states of the art of elderly-care robots and their various nursing modes and safe interaction methods are introduced and discussed in this paper. To conclude, considering the disparity between current elderly care robots and their anticipated objectives, we offer a comprehensive overview of the critical technologies and research trends that impact and enhance the feasibility and acceptance of elderly care robots. These areas encompass the collaborative assistance of diverse assistive robots, the establishment of a novel smart home care model for elderly individuals using sensor networks, the optimization of robot design for improved flexibility, and the enhancement of robot acceptability.

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“…Personal Assistive RobOt-Paro [32][33][34][35], ElliQ [36], DarumaTO [37], EmotiRob [38], NeCoRo [39]; Follow Me [40], MITTHAR [41]. A companion robot, NAO is shown in Fig.…”

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A Review on Usability and User Experience of Assistive Social Robots for Older Persons

Isa¹,

Saptari²,

Perumal³

et al. 2022

IJIE

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In the advancement of human-robot interaction technology, assistive social robots have been recognized as one of potential technologies that can provide physical and cognitive supports in older person’s care. However, a major challenge faced by the designers is to develop an assistive social robot with prodigious usability and user experience for older persons who were known to have physical and cognitive limitations. A considerable number of published literatures was reporting on the technological design process of assistive social robots. However, only a small amount of attention has been paid to review the usability and user experience of the robots. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of established researches in the literatures concerning usability and user experience issues faced by the older persons when interacting with assistive social robots. The authors searched relevant articles from the academic databases such as Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science as well as Google search engine for the publication period 2000 to 2021. Several search keywords were typed such as ‘older persons’ ‘elderly’, ‘senior citizens’, ‘assistive social robots’, ‘companion robots’, ‘personal robots’, ‘usability’ and ‘user experience’. This online search found a total of 215 articles which are related to assistive social robots in elderly care. Out of which, 54 articles identified as significant references, and they were examined thoroughly to prepare the main content of this paper. This paper reveals usability issues of 28 assistive social robots, and user experience feedback based on 41 units of assistive social robots. Based on the research articles scrutinized, the authors concluded that the key elements in the design and development of assistive social robots to improve acceptance of older persons were determined by three factors: functionality, usability and users’ experience. Functionality refers to ability of robots to serve the older persons. Usability is ease of use of the robots. It is an indicator on how successful of interaction between the robots and the users. To improve usability, robot designers should consider the limitations of older persons such as vision, hearing, and cognition capabilities when interactingwith the robots. User experience reflects to perceptions, preferences and behaviors of users that occur before, during and after use the robots. Combination of superior functionality and usability lead to a good user experiencein using the robots which in the end achieves satisfaction of older persons.

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Healing Effects of Pet Robots at an Elderly-Care Facility

Cited by 20 publications

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Acceptance and Attitudes Toward a Human-like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults

Acceptance and Attitudes Toward a Human-like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults

Research status of elderly-care robots and safe human-robot interaction methods

A Review on Usability and User Experience of Assistive Social Robots for Older Persons

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