TY - GEN
T1 - Development of Robotic Care for Older Adults with Dementia
T2 - 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
AU - Yuan, Fengpei
AU - Boltz, Marie
AU - Kemeny, Betsy
AU - Bowland, Sharon
AU - Wick, Kristina
AU - Zhao, Xiaopeng
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by National Institute of Health under the grant number R01AG077003.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The number of people with dementia has been growing worldwide. The cognitive deficits in people with dementia usually lead to lower independence and quality of life. Socially assistive robots (SARs) have demonstrated potential to assist dementia care and reduce workload in caregivers. To successfully and effectively develop robotic care for dementia, end-users are needed to continuously participate in the robot development lifecycle. In this paper, we discussed a focus group and survey study conducted with a group of nine older adults, including seven dementia caregivers, to investigate the acceptance of using SAR for dementia care and to identify potential concerns from the end-users’ perspective. Ongoing research ideas, designs and experiments related to SARs for dementia care were presented to the focus group along with demonstrations of various functions of a humanoid social robot Pepper. The results suggest overall positive attitudes and perceptions of older adults towards using SARs to assist dementia care. The group also made recommendations for future research in this field, such as addressing user interaction design challenges for people with dementia, pet-robot interaction, and potential decision-making issues by SARs.
AB - The number of people with dementia has been growing worldwide. The cognitive deficits in people with dementia usually lead to lower independence and quality of life. Socially assistive robots (SARs) have demonstrated potential to assist dementia care and reduce workload in caregivers. To successfully and effectively develop robotic care for dementia, end-users are needed to continuously participate in the robot development lifecycle. In this paper, we discussed a focus group and survey study conducted with a group of nine older adults, including seven dementia caregivers, to investigate the acceptance of using SAR for dementia care and to identify potential concerns from the end-users’ perspective. Ongoing research ideas, designs and experiments related to SARs for dementia care were presented to the focus group along with demonstrations of various functions of a humanoid social robot Pepper. The results suggest overall positive attitudes and perceptions of older adults towards using SARs to assist dementia care. The group also made recommendations for future research in this field, such as addressing user interaction design challenges for people with dementia, pet-robot interaction, and potential decision-making issues by SARs.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148694147
SN - 9783031246692
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 338
EP - 347
BT - Social Robotics - 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Cavallo, Filippo
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Fiorini, Laura
A2 - Sorrentino, Alessandra
A2 - He, Hongsheng
A2 - Liu, Xiaorui
A2 - Matsumoto, Yoshio
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 13 December 2022 through 16 December 2022
ER -