Rehabilitation care with Pepper humanoid robot: A qualitative case study of older patients with schizophrenia and/or dementia in Japan

Sato, Miki; Yasuhara, Yuko; Osaka, Kyoko; Ito, Hironobu; Diño, Michael Joseph S.; Ong, Irvin L.; Zhao, Yueren; Tanioka, Tetsuya

doi:10.1016/j.enfcli.2019.09.021

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“…We implemented our approach for the CleanMeAI project using the Pepper robot [58], which has been widely used in other works dealing with human interactions [18,61,62]. Unlike humans, autonomous robots like Pepper as shown previously in Figure 5 do not tire with repetitive tasks.…”

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Prospects of Robots in Assisted Living Environment

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From caretaking activities for elderly people to being assistive in healthcare setup, mobile and non-mobile robots have the potential to be highly applicable and serviceable. The ongoing pandemic has shown that human-to-human contact in healthcare institutions and senior homes must be limited. In this scenario, elderlies and immunocompromised individuals must be exclusively protected. Robots are a promising way to overcome this problem in assisted living environments. In addition, the advent of AI and machine learning will pave a way for intelligent robots with cognitive abilities, while enabling them to be more aware of their surroundings. In this paper, we discuss the general perspectives, potential research opportunities, and challenges arising in the area of robots in assisted living environments and present our research work pertaining to certain application scenarios, i.e., robots in rehabilitation and robots in hospital environments and pandemics, which, in turn, exhibits the growing prospects and interdisciplinary nature of the field of robots in assisted living environment.

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“…At the end of the inquiry, participants showed strong emotions when letting go of the robot, indicating the importance of the social bond they had created with it. The Pepper robot has also been used in cases of schizophrenia and dementia for recreational purposes [85,86].…”

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Can a humanoid social robot stimulate the interactivity of cognitively impaired elderly? A thorough study based on computer vision methods

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Social Assistive Robotics is increasingly being used in care settings to provide psychosocial support and interventions for the elderly with cognitive impairments. Most of these social robots have provided timely stimuli to the elderly at home and in care centres, including keeping them active and boosting their mood. However, previous investigations have registered shortcomings in these robots, particularly in their ability to satisfy an essential human need: the need for companionship. Reports show that the elderly tend to lose interests in these social robots after the initial excitement as the novelty wears out and the monotonous familiarity becomes all too familiar. This paper presents our research facilitating conversations between a social humanoid robot, Nadine, and cognitively impaired elderly at a nursing home. We analysed the effectiveness of human–humanoid interactions between our robot and 14 elderly over 29 sessions. We used both objective tools (based on computer vision methods) and subjective tools (based on observational scales) to evaluate the recorded videos. Our findings showed that our subjects engaged positively with Nadine, suggesting that their interaction with the robot could improve their well-being by compensating for some of their emotional, cognitive, and psychosocial deficiencies. We detected emotions associated with cognitively impaired elderly during these interactions. This study could help understand the expectations of the elderly and the current limitations of Social Assistive Robots. Our research is aligned with all the ethical recommendations by the NTU Institutional Review Board.

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“…In terms of social assistants, recent academic works are [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], and commercial ones are [35], [36], [37]. In terms of medical and rehabilitation assistants, recent works are [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43]. Despite this, there is still a lot of work to be done and we believe that in the future we will observe an exponential growth of this domain.…”

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Assistive Technology for Elderly Care: An Overview

Martínez-Martín

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2021

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Global demographic changes have resulted in a growing technological demand to meet the arisen social needs. In particular, the increasingly ageing population requires assistive technologies to stay at home for longer independently while receiving continuous healthcare. In this sense, a wide academic and industrial research is taking place, introducing these technologies in hospitals and rehabilitation centres. This paper aims at providing an overview of research projects for elderly care and assistance, focusing on cognitive and robot assistants due to their popularity in the area. More precisely, physical and/or cognitive rehabilitation are presented. This paper also discusses their limitations and the open challenges to be tackled in order to be successfully integrated in our society.

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Rehabilitation care with Pepper humanoid robot: A qualitative case study of older patients with schizophrenia and/or dementia in Japan

Cited by 35 publications

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Prospects of Robots in Assisted Living Environment

Prospects of Robots in Assisted Living Environment

Can a humanoid social robot stimulate the interactivity of cognitively impaired elderly? A thorough study based on computer vision methods

Assistive Technology for Elderly Care: An Overview

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