Social and physiological influences of living with seal robots in an elderly care house for two months

Wada, Kanae; Shibata, Takanori

doi:10.4017/gt.2008.07.02.172.00

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“…Robots indeed play a vital role in helping the elderly [18]. For example, the seal robot Paro developed in Japan was developed to meet the psychological and companionship needs of the elderly in hospitals, especially those with dementia [19,20]. Robots can assist the elderly in preparing meals [21], lifting heavy objects [22], offering companionship [23], facilitating social interaction [24], and serving as therapeutic tools [19].…”

Section: Robot Assistance To the Elderlymentioning

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Acceptability of Robots to Assist the Elderly by Future Designers: A Case of Guangdong Ocean University Industrial Design Students

Huang

Liu

2019

Sustainability

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The development of robot technology provides many possibilities for the life support of the elderly. This study explored the acceptability of robots to assist the elderly from the perspective of future designers. A quantitative questionnaire (58 copies) and a qualitative one-to-one interview (10 people) were conducted to explore the attitude of future designers towards the use of robots to assist the elderly. One-sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test statistic was used to analyze the data of the questionnaire. The results show that the mean and median of 11 of the 12 dimensions of the acceptability questionnaire are greater than 3 (3 represents uncertain and neutral attitude), and 10 have statistical significance (p < 0.05). Also, the interview results show the positive attitude of future designers. The research shows that future designers hold a positive and open attitude towards the use of robots to assist the elderly. The research findings can help people understand the attitude of future designers and provide some reference for subsequent robot design and development.

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Section: Robot Assistance To the Elderlymentioning

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Acceptability of Robots to Assist the Elderly by Future Designers: A Case of Guangdong Ocean University Industrial Design Students

Huang

Liu

2019

Sustainability

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“…For example, PARO is very friendly because of its soft visual aspect that looks like a pet. Using PARO robot in an elderly care house, Wada and Shibata found that elderly's stress reaction decreased by interactions with PARO [1], and PARO encouraged them to communicate with each other [2]. Human-robot communication is also an important component for an affinity, as we can see with Aldebaran's Pepper robot [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

A situation-aware action selection based on individual's preference using emotion estimation

Kumagai

Baek

Mizuuchi

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2014)

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Long-term relationships between humans and robots will expand in the future. We therefore consider that an affinity to robots is one of the important components of a stable relationship. In this paper, we propose an action selection system for robots. We expect the system to select an appropriate action that matches human's individual preference. We used an emotion estimation system to achieve this. This is an approach to create an affinity to robots. As a human's preference will be affected by their emotions, we used emotion estimation to learn these preferences. In this paper, we outline the proposed system, experiments, and evaluation of its efficacy. We performed two types of experiments using a simulated robot over one week and four weeks. In each of the experiments, the robot was varying its behaviors, based on learning of individual's preferences.

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“…Previous studies on the adaptation of information communication technology (ICT) to assist older people have proven it to be effective in curbing loneliness [ 10 ], wandering [ 11 ], anxiety, and depression [ 12 ]. Several robots have been developed and reported to influence older people’s cognitive function [ 13 , 14 ], physiological factors [ 15 , 16 ], behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) [ 17 ], and relationships with their surroundings [ 15 ].…”

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“…In addition, the limited adoption of robots in actual settings can be attributed to the lack of demonstrated effects [ 24 , 25 ]. Most studies were conducted in hospitals, nursing homes, care facilities, and living lab settings [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. Abdi et al [ 29 ] pointed out that future studies on robot assistants should be more conscious of real-life scenarios.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several studies on robots for people with dementia and cognitive impairment have suggested that robots allow them to become more independent. A PARO is a famous animal robot for caring for older people, and it has been shown to achieve positive effects on stress [ 15 ], blood pressure [ 16 ], and BPSD [ 17 ]. Nonetheless, PARO cannot distribute the information required to assist older people in their daily routines.…”

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Effect of the Information Support Robot on the Daily Activity of Older People Living Alone in Actual Living Environment

Mizuno

Saito

Sadohara

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Information support robots (ISRs) have the potential to assist older people living alone to have an independent life. However, the effects of ISRs on the daily activity, especially the sleep patterns, of older people have not been clarified; moreover, it is unclear whether the effects of ISRs depend on the levels of cognitive function. To investigate these effects, we introduced an ISR into the actual living environment and then quantified induced changes according to the levels of cognitive function. Older people who maintained their cognitive function demonstrated the following behavioral changes after using the ISR: faster wake-up times, reduced sleep duration, and increased amount of activity in the daytime (p < 0.05, r = 0.77; p < 0.05, r = 0.89, and p < 0.1, r = 0.70, respectively). The results suggest that the ISR is beneficial in supporting the independence of older people living alone since living alone is associated with disturbed sleep patterns and low physical activity. The impact of the ISR on daily activity was more remarkable in the subjects with high cognitive function than in those with low cognitive function. These findings suggest that cognitive function is useful information in the ISR adaptation process. The present study has more solid external validity than that of a controlled environment study since it was done in a personal residential space.

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Social and physiological influences of living with seal robots in an elderly care house for two months

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Acceptability of Robots to Assist the Elderly by Future Designers: A Case of Guangdong Ocean University Industrial Design Students

Acceptability of Robots to Assist the Elderly by Future Designers: A Case of Guangdong Ocean University Industrial Design Students

A situation-aware action selection based on individual's preference using emotion estimation

Effect of the Information Support Robot on the Daily Activity of Older People Living Alone in Actual Living Environment

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