Co-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults: Robots to Promote Physical Activity
Co-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults: Robots to Promote Physical Activity
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与老年人共同设计，为老年人服务：促进身体活动的机器人
DOI：
10.1145/3568162.3576995
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发表时间：
2023
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Huang, Chien-Ming
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作者：
Antony, Victor Nikhil;Cho, Sue Min;Huang, Chien-Ming
缺乏体育活动对老年人的健康有严重的负面影响，并限制了他们独立生活的能力。机器人已经被提出来帮助老年人参与体育活动（PA），尽管成功有限。缺乏对老年人需求的深入了解，并希望设计机器人让他们参与PA。在本文中，我们报告了老年人，物理治疗专家和工程师设计机器人以促进老年人PA的共同设计过程的结果。我们发现了老年人PA的各种动机和障碍;然后，我们概念化了广泛的可能的机器人支持，并发现机器人可以扮演各种角色来帮助老年人参与PA。这项探索性的研究阐明了几个重要的主题，并强调了个性化和适应性的需要。这项工作突出了研究人员和工程师在开发机器人以吸引老年人参与PA时应该考虑的关键设计特征，并强调了让各种利益相关者参与辅助机器人设计和开发的重要性。
Lack of physical activity has severe negative health consequences for older adults and limits their ability to live independently. Robots have been proposed to help engage older adults in physical activity (PA), albeit with limited success. There is a lack of robust understanding of older adults' needs and wants from robots designed to engage them in PA. In this paper, we report on the findings of a co-design process where older adults, physical therapy experts, and engineers designed robots to promote PA in older adults. We found a variety of motivators for and barriers against PA in older adults; we, then, conceptualized a broad spectrum of possible robotic support and found that robots can play various roles to help older adults engage in PA. This exploratory study elucidated several overarching themes and emphasized the need for personalization and adaptability. This work highlights key design features that researchers and engineers should consider when developing robots to engage older adults in PA, and underscores the importance of involving various stakeholders in the design and development of assistive robots.