Is an Entertainment Robot Useful in the Care of Elderly People With Severe Dementia?

Tamura, Toshiyo; Yonemitsu, S.; Itoh, Akichika; Oikawa, Daisuke; Kawakami, Akiko; Higashi, Yuji; Fujimooto, Toshiro; Nakajima, Koji

doi:10.1093/gerona/59.1.m83

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“…For example, the seal robot Paro by Shibata et al (2001a) and is used for pediatric therapy at university hospitals. Currently, Sony's dog robot AIBO by Tamura et al (2004), Philips' cat robot iCat by van Breemen (2005) and Omron's cat robot Necoro (in Libin & Libin (2004)) are also being tested for RAT. However there is few research into using robots in therapeutic settings for young patients.…”

Section: The Probo Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children

Goris¹,

Saldien²,

Vanderborght³

et al. 2010

Human-Robot Interaction

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Section: The Probo Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children

Goris¹,

Saldien²,

Vanderborght³

et al. 2010

Human-Robot Interaction

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“…Using these social pet robots for therapeutic purposes has more advantages and a better chance of being allowed in the hospitals. For example, the seal robot Paro [5], [6], Sony's dog robot Aibo [7] and Philips' cat robot iCat [8] are being tested for Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).…”

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The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform

Goris

Saldien

Vanderniepen

et al. 2009

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The concept of the huggable robot Probo is a result of the desire to improve the living conditions of children in hospital environment. These children need distraction and lots of information. In this paper we present the concept of this new robot. The robot will be employed in hospitals, as a tele-interface for entertainment, communication and medical assistance. To communicate according to social rules, the robot needs the ability to show facial expressions. Using a well defined set of Action Units (AU) it's possible to express some basic emotions. A prototype of the robot's head, capable of showing these basic emotions is presented. In order to express emotions, an emotional interface is developed. The emotions, represented as a vector in an 2D emotion space, are mapped to the DOF used in the robot. A graphical user interface to control the virtual and real prototype is also presented.

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“…There were also indications that participants preferences and HRP distance preferences were also affected by their personality factors (mainly the extraversion/intro-version factor from the "big five" Personality Inventory [16]). Takayama and Pantofaru [17] have also found that robot head shape, the orientation of the interacting robot, the gender and personality of the user all have significant effects on HRP. Mumm and Mutlu [18] found that different gaze behaviours of a humanoid (Wakamuru [19]) robot affected peoples preferred interaction distance, but also that this was affected by their degree of liking for the robot.…”

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A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic study

Walters¹,

Oskoei²,

Syrdal³

et al. 2011

2011 Ro-Man

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Abstract-A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic (HRP) study was performed using a newly developed Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a robot to measure and control the approach distances to the human participants. The main findings were that most HRP adaptation occurred in the first two interaction sessions, and for the remaining four weeks, approach distance preferences remained relatively steady, apart from some short periods of increased distances for some participants. There were indications that these were associated with episodes where the robot malfunctioned, so this raises the possibility of users trust in the robot affecting HRP distance. The study also found that approach distances for humans approaching the robot and the robot approaching the human were comparable, though there were indications that humans preferred to approach the robot more closely than they allowed the robot to approach them in a physically restricted area. Two participants left the study prematurely, stating they were bored with the repetitive experimental procedures. This highlights issues related to the often incompatible demands of keeping experimental controlled conditions vs. having realistic, engaging and varied HRI trial scenarios.

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Is an Entertainment Robot Useful in the Care of Elderly People With Severe Dementia?

Abstract: AIBO was clearly an effective rehabilitation tool in the treatment of severely demented patients.

Cited by 259 publications

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Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children

Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children

The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform

A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic study

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