Co-designing Technologies for Well Being: A Robot Companion for Older Adults
Co-designing Technologies for Well Being: A Robot Companion for Older Adults
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共同设计福祉技术：老年人的机器人伴侣
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-030-73103-8_63
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2021
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Ramirez-Loaiza, S.
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Rebola, C. B.;Ramirez-Loaiza, S.
机器人技术是一个颠覆了不同领域健康领域的行业，包括老年人护理。老年人的机器人伴侣已被证明产生许多好处，包括减少孤独，焦虑，压力，抑郁，激动，并有助于改善社会关系，仅举几例。目前，针对老年人的机器人宠物市场有不同的选择。其中包括所有产品的喜悦。2015年12月，Hasbro向市场发布了Joy for All-Robotic Catto。虽然该产品已被老年人成功采用，但仍有机会改善高级人机交互的性质。这门名为"延长生命的技术"的课程是在辛辛那提的设计硕士课程中教授的，重点是设计下一代"人人享有欢乐"机器人智能，为老年人提供心理社会支持。通过这个项目，课程有两个主要目标：1）了解老年人在日常生活活动中面临的真实的挑战; 2）开发创新的硬件和软件工具，可以满足一些确定的日常挑战。该课程在许多阶段采用了共同设计方法，包括不同的参与者（老年人和护理人员），利用各种工具来评估，分析，开发，设计，实施和评估老年人和社区的干预措施。该项目的意义在于使用参与式方法来评估和分析老年人在日常生活活动中面临的挑战，机器人伴侣可以帮助缓解这些挑战，从而对辅助技术的创造具有同理心。
Robotics is an industry that has disrupted the health field in different areas, including older adult care. Robotic companions for older adults have proved to produce many benefits, including decreasing loneliness, anxiety, stress, depression, agitation, and contributing to the improvement of social relationships, to mention a few. Currently, there are different options in the market of robotic pets for the older adult population. Among them is theJoy for Allline of products. In December of 2015, Hasbro released theJoy for All-Robotic Catto the market. While the product has been successfully adopted by the older adult population, there are opportunities to improve the nature of advanced human-robot interaction. The class,Technologies to Extend Life, taught in the Master of Design program at the University of Cincinnati, focused on designing the next generation ofJoy for Allrobotic intelligence that could provide psycho-social support for older adults. With this project, the class had two primary objectives: 1) Understand the real challenges older adults face in activities of daily living; and 2) Develop innovative hardware and software tools that can meet some of the identified daily challenges. The class had a co-design approach in the many phases that included different participants (older adults and caregivers), utilizing a variety of tools to assess, analyze, develop, design, implement, and evaluate the interventions with older adults and communities. The significance of this project is to use a participatory approach to assess and analyze the challenges older adults face in activities of daily living that robotic companions may help alleviate, thus having an empathic perspective to the creation of assistive technologies.