Evaluation of an Assistive Telepresence Robot for Elderly Healthcare

Abstract

In this paper we described the telepresence robot system designed to improve the well-being of elderly by supporting them to do daily activities independently, to facilitate social interaction in order to overcome a sense of social isolation and loneliness as well as to support the professional caregivers in everyday care. In order to investigate the acceptance of the developed robot system, evaluation study involved elderly people and professional caregivers, as two potential user groups was conducted. The results of this study are also presented and discussed.

Acceptance of Robot-Era system: results of robotic services in smart environments with older adults (Preprint)

“…Finally, other studies focused on robot acceptance were conducted in actual environments [30][31][32].…”

“…The results show that the functionalities provided by the tele-presence robot system were accepted by potential users, but the robot was not autonomous because it was teleoperated by the user, both for navigation and for fetch and carry of a small object, and only three robotics services were provided. In addition, although the experiments were conducted in the real environment, it was a pilot study, and the robotic system was not integrated into the daily routine of the nursing home [32]. Table 1 shows an overview of the related works.…”

Ubiquitous Computing in the context of developing countries

“…Examples of pervasive health approaches which follow a patient centric health care system can be found in [33,34]. The project by Ghose et al [33] named UbiHeld (Ubiquitous Healthcare for Elderly) uses mobile technology as its main data source for amassing physiological data, and complements monitoring (for cases where the users may not carry mobile phones; e.g. in cases of sleeping, toilet visits and TV viewing) using a depth sensor, Kinect, to detect movement in a way which preserves the privacy of the patients.…”

Low Cost Robotic Arm for Object Grasping Applications

“…These applications are not integrated and used only in industrial factories; they are also used in our daily lives [5], in medicine [6] and in space. Today, more and more of these applications are used in surgery.…”