Title :
Entertainment services of a healthcare robot system for older people in private and public spaces
Author :
Ho Seok Ahn ; Datta, Chandan ; I-Han Kuo ; Stafford, Rebecca ; Kerse, Ngaire ; Peri, Kathy ; Broadbent, Elizabeth ; MacDonald, Bruce A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract :
In this paper, we analyze the use of entertainment services on our healthcare robot system, and find (1) how long robots were used, (2) which entertainment service was most used, (3) which music video category was most preferred, and (4) which music video was most preferred. We developed a healthcare robot system, HealthBot, and deployed several of them in an older care facility, and obtained the usage histories of three kinds of entertainment services: music videos, quotes, and pictures. We report results about the preferences of participants in private and public spaces.
Keywords :
assisted living; entertainment; medical robotics; mobile robots; service robots; HealthBot; entertainment services; healthcare robot system; music video category; older care facility; older people; pictures; private spaces; public spaces; quotes; usage histories; Automation; Entertainment industry; Heart beat; Hospitals; Robot sensing systems; HealthBot; entertainment service; healthcare robot; the elderly care;
Conference_Titel :
Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 2015 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Queenstown
DOI :
10.1109/ICARA.2015.7081150
