Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged

Wada, Kazuyoshi; Shibata, Takanori; Saito, Tomoko; Sakamoto, K.; Tanie, K.

doi:10.1109/robot.2005.1570535

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“…It was developed in Japan for robot therapy and is mostly used with children and people with dementia (Wada et al, 2004(Wada et al, , 2005Wada and Shibata, 2007;Shibata and Wada, 2010;Bemelmans et al, 2015Bemelmans et al, , 2016. Paro is equipped with touch sensors but does not recognize or interpret different touch gestures (Wada and Shibata, 2007).…”

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An Exploration of the Benefits of an Animallike Robot Companion with More Advanced Touch Interaction Capabilities for Dementia Care

2017

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Animallike robot companions such as robotic seal Paro are increasingly used in dementia care due to the positive effects that interaction with these robots can have on the well-being of these patients. Touch is one of the most important interaction modalities for patients with dementia and can be a natural way to interact with animallike robots. To advance the development of animallike robots, we explored in what ways people with dementia could benefit from interaction with an animallike robot with more advanced touch recognition capabilities and which touch gestures would be important in their interaction with Paro. In addition, we explored which other target groups might benefit from interaction with animallike robots with more advanced interaction capabilities. In this study, we administered a questionnaire and conducted interviews with two groups of health-care providers who all worked in a geriatric psychiatry department. One group used Paro in their work (i.e., the expert group; n = 5) while the other group had no experience with the use of animallike robot (i.e., the layman group; n = 4). The results showed that health-care providers perceived Paro as an effective intervention to improve the well-being of people with dementia. Examples of usages for Paro that were mentioned were providing distraction, interrupting problematic behaviors, and stimulating communication. Furthermore, the care providers indicated that people with dementia (would) use mostly positive forms of touch and speech to interact with Paro. Paro's auditory responses were criticized because they can overstimulate the patients. In addition, the care providers argued that social interactions with Paro are currently limited and therefore the robot does not meet the needs of a broader audience such as healthy elderly people who still live in their own homes. The development of robot pets with more advanced social capabilities such as touch and speech recognition might result in more intelligent interactions, which could help to better adapt to the needs of people with dementia and could make interactions more interesting for a broader audience. Moreover, the robot's response modalities and its appearance should match the needs of to the target group.

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An Exploration of the Benefits of an Animallike Robot Companion with More Advanced Touch Interaction Capabilities for Dementia Care

2017

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“…These robots are not designed to provide a specific therapy but to be a focus of attention. Paro, a synthetic actuated stuffed seal toy, behaves in response to touch and sound (Wada, Shibata, Saito, Sakamoto, & Tanie, 2005). Its goal is to provide the benefits of pet-assisted therapy, which can affect resident quality of life in nursing homes that cannot support pets (Edwards & Beck, 2002).…”

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“…When robotics researchers introduced Paro in the common areas of a nursing home (Wada et al, 2005), residents were also in the common areas longer and socialized more. Stress proteins also decreased in their urine.…”

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Benchmarks for evaluating socially assistive robotics

Feil-Seifer

Skinner²,

Matarić³

2007

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Socially assistive robotics (SAR) is a growing area of research. Evaluating SAR systems presents novel challenges. Using a robot for a socially assistive task can have various benefits and ethical implications. Many questions are important to understanding whether a robot is effective for a given application domain. This paper describes several benchmarks for evaluating SAR systems. There exist numerous methods for evaluating the many factors involved in a robot's design. Benchmarks from psychology, anthropology, medicine, and human-robot interaction are proposed as measures of success in evaluating a given SAR system and its impact on the user and broader population.

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“…Another such example is NurseBot, a robot used to guide users around a nursing home [85]. Paro [134,135], an actuated stuffed seal, behaves in response to touch and sound. Its goal is to provide the benefits of pet-assisted therapy, which can affect resident quality of life [30], in nursing homes that cannot support pets.…”

Section: Social Service and Assistive Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When roboticists introduced the robot seal Paro into the common areas of a nursing home [134,135], they found a reduction of stress proteins in the urine of the participants. Another positive effect of the experiment was that residents were in the common areas longer and socialized more.…”

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Human-Robot Interaction

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Giovannetti²

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Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged

Cited by 203 publications

References 20 publications

An Exploration of the Benefits of an Animallike Robot Companion with More Advanced Touch Interaction Capabilities for Dementia Care

An Exploration of the Benefits of an Animallike Robot Companion with More Advanced Touch Interaction Capabilities for Dementia Care

Benchmarks for evaluating socially assistive robotics

Human-Robot Interaction

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