Medication non-compliance" is a failure to take medication properly. Therefore, medication is necessary for patients to be able to understand medication properly and to participate in treatment voluntarily with the right motivation. For this study, we design medication education based on the ARCS model(Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction), which classifies concepts related to learning motivation (Keller, 1984), and which incorporates utilization of the communication robot "Pepper".

In this study, I propose and practice the PBL (Problem Based Learning) contents to learn the difficulty of supporting disaster relief efforts, the importance of communication, and human networks. I conducted a PBL practice with Twitter for premedical students in the seminar. In this practice, I took the damage situation of the East Japan great earthquake and tsunami disaster into account and prepared for the scenario. Participant students played roles as individual doctors. The results of the practice were that it was not completed well. Some patients are not helped due to miscommunication. However, students are considered to learn much from this practice. By the questionnaire and the report, they express that they found it difficult to help at the disaster; they found it important to communicate. They also learned of the importance of human networks.

An expected surge of dementia patients in Japan indicates a pressing need to establish countermeasures. As described herein, by developing an educational program for elderly people using robots, we performed a demonstration experiment. Results revealed that involvement of elderly people with robots enhances their enjoyment, indicating a future direction of cognitive decline prevention education for elderly people.

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The aim of this study was to investigate which tool can be more effective way to practice English medical word pronunciation for Japanese medical students: a communication robot or a tablet. The subjects were 8 Japanese medical freshman students. The target words were 10 medical words related to an infectious disease. In the training, the subjects learned the meaning of the word in Japanese and then they practiced the pronunciation in English. Four subjects followed the order; Pretest → Robot → Posttest1 → Tablet → Posttest 2, while the remaining 4 subjects were counterbalanced; Pretest → Tablet → Posttest 1 → Robot → Posttest 2. All subjects answered the questionnaire after Posttest 2. The process was videorecorded and the waveform was analyzed. The results showed that the postures and voices of the subjects were better with a communication robot than with a tablet. The pronunciation practiced with a communication robot had improved with a fewer trial. The subjects wrote in the questionnaire that they could practice pronunciation with a communication robot aiming to be able to talk with a person in the future. Thus, compared to a tablet, a communication robot can be an effective tool to practice English medical words.