Sensors: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring, Gregor; Leopatra, Verlyn

doi:10.3390/jpm3010023

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“…In our case, the clients of the staff of the disability service organization are cognitive impaired people who are seen as more vulnerable due to their state of cognitive abilities. The staff of the same organization, when asked about sensors, where highlighting the lack of control they felt their clients already have over their daily life [54] and they believe that more complicated machines could not be understood by their client. This sentiment would be a barrier to uptake of the social robots as the cognitive impaired person would be seen as having no way to rectify a 'bad' action by the robot.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring

Yumakulov

2014

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Social robotics is an emerging field, with many applications envisioned for people with disabilities. This project examined the so far invisible views of disability service organization workers towards social robotics. Because community service workers' views shape community-based rehabilitation (an area of health interventions that focuses on social determinants), it is important to examine their views towards social robotics applications which are largely developed under a clinical/medical view of disability. We administered a survey to employees of a Saskatchewan disability service organization. Out of 44 respondents, 80 % were female, most aged 21-65 years. Robotics applications perceived to be important included domestic robots, and rehabilitation robots. Least important applications included eldercare robots, companion robots, and pet robots. Most participants felt that robots cannot replace human touch, human interaction, or emotional companionship, and that they cannot/should not replace human workers in the disability setting. Many expressed concerns about safety, normality for disabled people, and artificial interactions. Respondents also had views on whether a social robot can be a bully or could be bullied. We submit that the perspectives our respondents exhibited might be useful to consider in the development of social robots for applications around disability in order to ensure acceptable and relevant products.

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Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring

Yumakulov

2014

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…However, these devices and robots raise ethical concerns pertaining to the ability of people with impairments to fully understand use of the devices, which in turn raises potential for invasions of privacy [6,24]. And what about instances where people may understand but not agree to terms of use?…”

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Home Care Technology Through an Ability Expectation Lens

Wolbring

Lashewicz²

2014

J Med Internet Res

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Home care is on the rise, and its delivery is increasingly reliant on an expanding variety of health technologies ranging from computers to telephone “health apps” to social robots. These technologies are most often predicated on expectations that people in their homes (1) can actively interact with these technologies and (2) are willing to submit to the action of the technology in their home. Our purpose is to use an “ability expectations” lens to bring together, and provide some synthesis of, the types of utility and disadvantages that can arise for people with disabilities in relation to home care technology development and use. We searched the academic databases Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCO ALL, IEEE Xplore, and Compendex to collect articles that had the term “home care technology” in the abstract or as a topic (in the case of Web of Science). We also used our background knowledge and related academic literature pertaining to self-diagnosis, health monitoring, companionship, health information gathering, and care. We examined background articles and articles collected through our home care technology search in terms of ability expectations assumed in the presentation of home care technologies, or discussed in relation to home care technologies. While advances in health care support are made possible through emerging technologies, we urge critical examination of such technologies in terms of implications for the rights and dignity of people with diverse abilities. Specifically, we see potential for technologies to result in new forms of exclusion and powerlessness. Ableism influences choices made by funders, policy makers, and the public in the development and use of home health technologies and impacts how people with disabilities are served and how useful health support technologies will be for them. We urge continued critical examination of technology development and use according to ability expectations, and we recommend increasing incorporation of participatory design processes to counteract potential for health support technology to render people with disabilities technologically excluded and powerless.

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“…For example, the User Acceptance of Information Technology (UTAUT) model [ 272 , 273 ] may serve. This model was applied previously to evaluate smart wearable devices [ 274 ], including health care [ 275 , 276 ], and m-health devices [ 277 ]. Other parameters, such as size or weight, can also affect the adoption of the technology.…”

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Sensing Systems for Respiration Monitoring: A Technical Systematic Review

Vanegas

Igual

Plaza

2020

Sensors

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Respiratory monitoring is essential in sleep studies, sport training, patient monitoring, or health at work, among other applications. This paper presents a comprehensive systematic review of respiration sensing systems. After several systematic searches in scientific repositories, the 198 most relevant papers in this field were analyzed in detail. Different items were examined: sensing technique and sensor, respiration parameter, sensor location and size, general system setup, communication protocol, processing station, energy autonomy and power consumption, sensor validation, processing algorithm, performance evaluation, and analysis software. As a result, several trends and the remaining research challenges of respiration sensors were identified. Long-term evaluations and usability tests should be performed. Researchers designed custom experiments to validate the sensing systems, making it difficult to compare results. Therefore, another challenge is to have a common validation framework to fairly compare sensor performance. The implementation of energy-saving strategies, the incorporation of energy harvesting techniques, the calculation of volume parameters of breathing, or the effective integration of respiration sensors into clothing are other remaining research efforts. Addressing these and other challenges outlined in the paper is a required step to obtain a feasible, robust, affordable, and unobtrusive respiration sensing system.

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Sensors: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

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Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Social Robots: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Home Care Technology Through an Ability Expectation Lens

Sensing Systems for Respiration Monitoring: A Technical Systematic Review

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