Promoting engagement in cognitively stimulating activities using an intelligent socially assistive robot

Chan, Jeanie; Nejat, Goldie

doi:10.1109/aim.2010.5695806

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Providing such constant assistance could be an overwhelming task for the caregivers staying with OAwD. Smart home technologies support OAwD to age-in-place by providing various services, such as within home navigational support [1], schedule management [2], safety assurance [3], [4], [5], [6] and responses to emergency situations [7], cognitive and social support [8], a means of communication with family and friends [9], and automated cognitive assessment [10]. Almost all of these smart-home technologies are static and embedded into the environment.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of daily activities by older adults with dementia: The role of an assistive robot

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Wang

Huq

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

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Older adults with cognitive impairment often have difficulties in remembering the proper sequence of activities of daily living (ADLs) or how to use the tools necessary to perform ADLs. They, therefore, require reminders in a timely fashion while performing ADLs. This is a very stressful situation for the caregivers of people with dementia. In this paper we describe a pilot study where a tele-operated assistive robot helps a group of older adults with dementia (OAwD) to perform an ADL, namely making a cup of tea in the kitchen. Five OAwD along with their caregivers participated in this study which took place in a simulated-home setting. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility and usability of a robotic system in assisting the OAwD to perform ADL in a home setting. The findings from this study will contribute to achieve our ultimate goal of designing a full-fledged assistive robot that assists OAwD aging in their own homes. The assistive robots designed for people with dementia mostly focus on companionship. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to design an assistive robot which will provide step-by-step guidance to people with dementia in their activities of daily living.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of daily activities by older adults with dementia: The role of an assistive robot

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Wang

Huq

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

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“…There are several existing SAR architectures designed for behavior intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder [28], functional intervention or companion purpose for older adults [13][20][24][29][30][31][32], as well as other applications [33][34]. All these architectures including ours have component(s) or module(s) dedicated to sensing and actuation, which provide the interface between SAR systems and targeted users; and decision making, for system behavior adaptation.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Robotic Coach Architecture for Elder Care (ROCARE) Based on Multi-User Engagement Models

Fan

Bian

Zheng

et al. 2017

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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The aging population with its concomitant medical conditions, physical and cognitive impairments, at a time of strained resources, establishes the urgent need to explore advanced technologies that may enhance function and quality of life. Recently, robotic technology, especially socially assistive robotics has been investigated to address the physical, cognitive, and social needs of older adults. Most system to date have predominantly focused on one-on-one human robot interaction (HRI). In this paper, we present a multi-user engagement-based robotic coach system architecture (ROCARE). ROCARE is capable of administering both one-on-one and multi-user HRI, providing implicit and explicit channels of communication, and individualized activity management for long-term engagement. Two preliminary feasibility studies, a one-on-one interaction and a triadic interaction with two humans and a robot, were conducted and the results indicated potential usefulness and acceptance by older adults, with and without cognitive impairment.

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“…The usability of the system was verified by the trial participants in Austria and Israel. Brian 2.0, a socially assistive robot to be used as a therapeutic aid designed to maintain, and improve the residual social and cognitive functioning in people with dementia, is proposed in [16]. Brian 2.0 is able to engage the people with dementia in the activity by means of task assistance,encouragement, reinforcement, and celebration.…”

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A socially-intelligent multi-robot service team for in-home monitoring

Drossos

Floros

Potirakis

et al. 2014

IISA 2014, the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications

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The objective of this study is to develop a sociallyintelligent service team comprised of multiple robots with sophisticated sonic interaction capabilities that aims to transparently collaborate towards efficient and robust monitoring by close interaction. In the distributed scenario proposed in this study, the robots share any acoustic data extracted from the environment and act in-sync with the events occurring in their living environment in order to provide potential means for efficient monitoring and decision-making within a typical home enclosure. Although each robot acts as an individual recognizer using a novel emotionally-enriched word recognition system, the final decision is social in nature and is followed by all. Moreover, the social decision stage triggers actions that are algorithmically distributed among the robots' population and enhances the overall approach with the potential advantages of the team work within specific communities through collaboration.

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Promoting engagement in cognitively stimulating activities using an intelligent socially assistive robot

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Performance of daily activities by older adults with dementia: The role of an assistive robot

Performance of daily activities by older adults with dementia: The role of an assistive robot

A Robotic Coach Architecture for Elder Care (ROCARE) Based on Multi-User Engagement Models

A socially-intelligent multi-robot service team for in-home monitoring

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