Meal-time with a socially assistive robot and older adults at a long-term care facility
Meal-time with a socially assistive robot and older adults at a long-term care facility
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与社交辅助机器人和长期护理机构的老年人一起用餐
DOI：
10.5898/jhri.2.1.mccoll
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发表时间：
2013
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D. Gerritsen
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作者：
Johanna M H Nijsten;R. Leontjevas;M. Smalbrugge;R. Koopmans;D. Gerritsen
随着年龄的增长，由于认知和身体障碍的普遍存在或社会孤立，他们进行基本自我维持活动的能力可能会减弱。我们工作的目标是设计能够为老年人提供认知帮助，有针对性的参与和激励的社会辅助机器人，以促进参与日常生活的自我维护活动。在本文中，我们提出的设计和实现的表现力的类人机器人，布赖恩2.1，作为一个社会的重要活动吃饭的动机。一项探索性研究进行了在老年人护理设施的机器人和八个人，年龄在82- 93，调查用户的参与和遵守在用餐时间与机器人的互动沿着与整体接受和对机器人的态度。研究结果表明，在两种不同的用餐场景中，个体都参与了互动并遵守了机器人。研究后的机器人接受问卷也确定，一般来说，参与者喜欢与Brian 2.1互动，并对机器人的预期活动持积极态度。
As people get older, their ability to perform basic self-maintenance activities can be diminished due to the prevalence of cognitive and physical impairments or as a result of social isolation. The objective of our work is to design socially assistive robots capable of providing cognitive assistance, targeted engagement, and motivation to elderly individuals, in order to promote participation in self-maintenance activities of daily living. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of the expressive human-like robot, Brian 2.1, as a social motivator for the important activity of eating meals. An exploratory study was conducted at an elderly care facility with the robot and eight individuals, aged 82--93, to investigate user engagement and compliance during meal-time interactions with the robot along with overall acceptance and attitudes towards the robot. Results of the study show that the individuals were both engaged in the interactions and complied with the robot during two different meal-eating scenarios. A post-study robot acceptance questionnaire also determined that, in general, the participants enjoyed interacting with Brian 2.1 and had positive attitudes towards the robot for the intended activity.