Developing a Telepresence Robot for Interpersonal Communication with the Elderly in a Home Environment

Tsai, Tzung-Cheng; Hsu, Yeh‐Liang; Ma, A.W.W.; King, Trevor J.; Wu, Chang-Huei

doi:10.1089/tmj.2006.0068

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“…Examples include home care assistance [Michaud et al, 2006], interpersonal communication for elderly care [Tsai et al, 2007] and a robotic teddy bear for early education, family communication and therapeutic purposes [Stiehl et al, 2006].…”

Section: Telerobots For Human Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

MeBot: A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

Adalgeirsson

Breazeal

2010

2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Telepresence refers to a set of technologies that allow users to feel present at a distant location, telerobotics is a subfield of telepresence. Much work has been done in telerobotics through the years to provide safer working environments for people or to reach locations that would otherwise be inaccessible. More recently telerobots have been developed for communication purposes but as of yet they have not accommodated for other channels of communication than audio or video. The design and evaluation of a telepresence robot that allows for social expression is the content of this thesis. Our claim is that a telerobot that communicates more than simply audio or video but also expressive gestures, body language or pose and proxemics will allow for a more engaging and enjoyable interaction. An iterative design process of the MeBot platform is described in detail as well as the design of supporting systems and various control interfaces. A human subject study was conducted where the effects of expressivity were measured. Our results show that a socially expressive robot was found to be more engaging and likable than a static one. It was also found that expressiveness contributes to more psychological involvement and better cooperation.

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Section: Telerobots For Human Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

MeBot: A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

Adalgeirsson

Breazeal

2010

2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

137

112

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“…For example, the robot should be able to act autonomously when the operator cannot control the telepresence robot properly, or when data transmission is lost. Additionally, from the secondary users' point of view, autonomous behaviors can increase their projection capability and achieve a safe and reliable operation of the telepresence robot in a (potentially) dynamic environment [52].…”

Section: Readiness Level Of the Telepresence Robotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Evaluation of a Telepresence Robot for the Elderly: Methodology and Ecological Case Study

Cesta

Cortellessa

Orlandini

et al. 2016

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Telepresence robotic systems are proposed in different contexts and specifically in the area of social robotics for assisting older adults at home. Similarly to other robotic systems, such robots are often designed and then evaluated in laboratory settings for a limited period of time. Lab-based evaluations present limitations because they do not take into account the different challenges imposed by the fielding of robotic solutions into real contexts for longer periods. In order to perform long-term experiments in real ecological settings it is very important to define a structured approach to assess the impact of a prolonged and constant use of the telepresence robot. This paper proposes a methodology in the area of elderly people support, called MARTA, for Multidimensional Assessment of telepresence RoboT for older Adults. It introduces the main variables of interest as well as the instruments and administration timeline for assessing relevant changes that may occur over time. MARTA is also validated in a one year-long case study during which a telepresence robot, called Giraff, has been deployed and iteratively assessed. The paper also provides remarks on the technology readiness and suggestions for its improvements.

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“…Present-day life reality, instead, consists of a world that is slowly getting populated by highly intelligent technological systems. Service robotics has been widely applied in assistive technologies [2], [3], rehabilitation [4], [5], [6], assistive mobility [7], remote communication systems for disabled people [8] and telepresence [9], [10], [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

A cloud robotics system for telepresence enabling mobility impaired people to enjoy the whole museum experience

Primatesta

Giuliano

et al. 2015

2015 10th International Conference on Design &Amp; Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS)

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We present a novel robotic telepresence platform composed by a semi-autonomous mobile robot based on a cloud robotics framework, which has been developed with the aim of enabling mobility impaired people to enjoy museums and archaeological sites that would be otherwise inaccessible. Such places, in fact, very often are not equipped to provide access for mobility impaired people, in particular because these aids require dedicated infrastructures that may not fit within the environment and large investments. For this reason, people affected by mobility impairments are often unable to enjoy a part or even the entire museum experience. Solutions allowing mobility impaired people to enjoy museum experience are often based on recorded tours, thus they do not allow active participation of the user. On the contrary, the presented platform is intended to allow users to enjoy completely the museum round. A robot equipped with a camera is placed within the museum and users can control it in order to follow predefined tours or freely explore the museum. Our solution ensures that users see exactly what the robot is seing in real-time. The cloud robotics platform controls both navigation capabilities and teleoperation. Navigation tasks are intended to let the robot reliably follow pre-defined tours, while main concern of teleoperation tasks is to ensure robot safety (e.g., by means of dynamic obstacle detection and avoidance software). Proposed platform has been optimized to maximize user experience.

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Developing a Telepresence Robot for Interpersonal Communication with the Elderly in a Home Environment

Cited by 79 publications

References 40 publications

MeBot: A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

MeBot: A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence

Long-Term Evaluation of a Telepresence Robot for the Elderly: Methodology and Ecological Case Study

A cloud robotics system for telepresence enabling mobility impaired people to enjoy the whole museum experience

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