The effects of assistive walking robots for health care support on older persons: a preliminary field experiment in an elder care facility
The effects of assistive walking robots for health care support on older persons: a preliminary field experiment in an elder care facility
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辅助步行机器人对老年人健康护理支持的影响：在老年护理机构的初步现场实验
DOI：
10.1007/s11370-020-00345-4
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发表时间：
2021-01-10
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Suzuki, Tomohiro
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作者：
Nomura, Tatsuya;Kanda, Takayuki;Suzuki, Tomohiro
在目前的研究中，我们准备了一个与人类大小的人形机器人，可以与行走的人一起自主导航。它的话语是通过绿野仙踪方法控制的。进行了一项现场实验，让老年人与机器人一起行走在养老机构中，机器人与他们交谈，以研究机器人陪伴对需要医疗保健支持的老年人在增加他们参加体育锻炼的积极性方面的影响。参与者 (N = 23) 是该机构的居民或在该机构接受日托的有健康问题的人。实验结果表明：（1）参与者比单独行走更喜欢与机器人一起行走，（2）不同行走方式的身体负担没有差异，（3）与机器人一起行走唤起了参与者的新奇感或激发了对辅助机器人的现有兴趣，两者都会带来积极的感觉。
In the present research, we prepared a human-size humanoid that autonomously navigates alongside with a walking person. Its utterances were controlled by Wizard-of-Oz method. A field experiment in which older persons walked in an elder care facility together with the robot while it talked to them was conducted to investigate the effects of robot accompaniment on older people requiring health care support in terms of increasing their motivation to engage in physical exercise. The participants (N = 23) were residents in the facility or persons with health problems who had been receiving day care at the facility. The experimental results suggested that (1) the participants enjoyed walking with the robot more than walking alone, (2) the physical burden did not differ between walking styles, and (3) walking with the robot evoked the participants' perception of novelty or stimulated an existing interest in assistive robotics, both leading to positive feelings.