DocumentCode
2064906
Title
Robot assisted activity at a health service facility for the aged for 17 months: an interim report of long-term experiment
Author
Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Shibata, Takanori ; Saito, Tomoko ; Sakamoto, Kayoko ; Tanie, Kazuo
Author_Institution
Inst. of Intelligent Syst., National Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan
fYear
2005
fDate
12-15 June 2005
Firstpage
127
Lastpage
132
Abstract
A long-term experiment of robot assisted activity for elderly people has been conducted at a health service facility for the aged since Aug. 2003. Three therapeutic seal robots, Paro, were introduced there. This paper describes the results of the experiment for 17 months. Face scales that consist of illustrations of person´s faces were used to evaluate person´s moods. In addition, geriatric depression scales were used to measure person´s depression by questionnaires. As the results, feelings of the elderly people were improved by interaction with the seal robots.
Keywords
geriatrics; handicapped aids; man-machine systems; medical robotics; Paro; elderly people; health service facility; human-robot interaction; mental commit robot; robot assisted activity; therapeutic seal robots; Aging; Animals; Hospitals; Human robot interaction; Medical services; Medical treatment; Mood; Pediatrics; Seals; Senior citizens;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2005. IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8947-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ARSO.2005.1511638
Filename
1511638
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