Title :
A study on service robot system for elder care
Author :
Cheonshu Park ; Sangseung Kang ; Jaehong Kim ; Jinhwan Oh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Robot/Cognitive Convergence Res., ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper presents an elder care robot system for older people. An elder care robot system provides human-robot interaction application and monitoring service. The study was carried out for five weeks in nursing homes, with the participation of 17 residents. We have conducted a t-test to compare the difference between satisfaction and usability evaluation for the residents and the staff.
Keywords :
geriatrics; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; patient care; patient monitoring; service robots; statistical testing; elder care robot system; human-robot interaction application; monitoring service; nursing home; older people; resident satisfaction; service robot system; t-test; usability evaluation; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Service robots; Zigbee; Elder care; Human-robot interaction; Location and emergency monitoring; Robot service; Zigbee network;
Conference_Titel :
Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Daejeon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3111-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3110-4
DOI :
10.1109/URAI.2012.6463070
