Proposal and evaluation of the toilet timing suggestion method for the elderly

Tsuji, Airi; Yonezawa, Tomoko; Yamazoe, Hirotake; Abe, Shinji; Kuwahara, Noriaki; Morimoto, Kazunari

doi:10.1109/icci-cc.2012.6311144

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“…The practical use of the system is expected to be explored to conjunct services with outing support applications, such as walk navigation [21] or toilet timing suggestions [22]. It should be also considered to apply the system for beholding children's outings by its familiar interaction of physical contact.…”

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Physical contact using haptic and gestural expressions for ubiquitous partner robot

Yonezawa

Yamazoe

Abe

2013

2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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In this paper, we propose a portable robot to express physical contacts that are parallel to other modalities. It enfolds the user's arm in its arms and tapping the user's arm. The physical contact expressions are generated through a combination of several haptic stimuli and the robot's anthropomorphic behaviors based on its internal state. The aim of our research is building a caregiver-like robot medium. The system was designed for gentle and delicate communication between the user and the robot during a user's outings. The haptic stimuli express warm/cold, patting, and squeezing. Experimental results show that haptic communicative behaviors of the robot increase the intelligibility to the robot's messages and familiar impressions to the robot.

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Physical contact using haptic and gestural expressions for ubiquitous partner robot

Yonezawa

Yamazoe

Abe

2013

2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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“…Consequently, excretion assistance systems have been actively developed. To excrete, people must perform several activities: perceive the urge to urinate/defecate [18], transfer to/from toilet [9,14], sit on the toilet seat [8], wear/pull off trousers, urinate/defecate, clean up the feces, dry buttocks [3], and stand up from the toilet seat [8]. Among these activities, we focus on the clean up and dry buttocks step.…”

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A teleoperated bottom wiper

Hamada

Mitake

Hasegawa

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference

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In order to aid elderly and/or disabled people in cleaning and drying their posterior after defecation, a teleoperated bottom wiper is proposed. The wiper enables a person sitting on the toilet seat to wipe his/her bottom by specifying the wiping position and strength with a computer mouse and keyboard. The proposed teleoperation is novel in that the operator and target are the same. The operator feels force feedback through the buttocks instead of the hands. The result of a user study confirmed that users could successfully wipe the buttocks with appropriate position and strength by teleoperation. Since it is controller by the user, the teleoperated wiper is suitable for accommodating each participant's preference of the moment.

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“…Especially for 24-hour, personal and daily support, we adopted both vital sensing and a robot that supports the elderly during outings, especially for toilet problems/situations. We proposed a toilet map acquisition system [18] and a toilet timing suggestion system [16]. To realize such an elderly support system based on such researches, appropriate mechanisms for transmitting the support information are crucial.…”

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Wearable robot that measures user vital signs for elderly care and support

Yamazoe

Yonezawa

2016

Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies (Formerly BIONE

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In this paper, we introduce a wearable robot with vital sensors. So far, we have been developing a wearable partner agent that makes physical contact, which is generated by combining haptic stimuli and the agent's anthropomorphic motions. The haptic stimuli are adjusted and controlled corresponding to the user's posture and surrounding context. However, neither is sucient to recognize the user's physical and emotional conditions. Thus, we extend our system by adding vital sensors, especially a blood pressure sensor, to estimate the user's physical and emotional conditions and achieve elderly care and support based on the obtained user's information.

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Proposal and evaluation of the toilet timing suggestion method for the elderly

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Physical contact using haptic and gestural expressions for ubiquitous partner robot

Physical contact using haptic and gestural expressions for ubiquitous partner robot

A teleoperated bottom wiper

Wearable robot that measures user vital signs for elderly care and support

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