TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of a Humanoid Partner for Older Adults and Persons with Dementia During Home-Based Activities
AU - Yuan, Fengpei
AU - Boltz, Marie
AU - Jao, Ying Ling
AU - Casenhiser, Arowyn
AU - Siddiqi, Aidan
AU - Bray, Robert
AU - Duzan, Joshua
AU - Crane, Monica
AU - Zhao, Xiaopeng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Worldwide, there are approximately 10 million new cases of dementia reported each year. Due to cognitive deficits, persons living with dementia (PLWDs) have lower independence and decreased quality of life at home. Physically-embodied socially assistive robots (SARs) have the potential to engage PLWDs and assist them in their home-based activities. However, limited attention has been given to the development and assessment of SAR to interact with PLWDs within the context of home-based activities. In this case study, we designed a list of activities, including entertainment, playing games, and ten activities of daily living in a simulated home setting. We invited one older adult (female) without cognitive impairment and two (male) with dementia to perform these activities with the guidance of a humanoid SAR. The results of our observational study demonstrate that the multimodal interaction in SARs, such as verbal communication, eye contact, and gestures, can greatly facilitate the adoption and use of SARs by PLWDs. We found that PLWDs attributed human-like qualities to the robot when performing home-based activities. We also identified main challenges in SAR to assist PLWDs with these tasks.
AB - Worldwide, there are approximately 10 million new cases of dementia reported each year. Due to cognitive deficits, persons living with dementia (PLWDs) have lower independence and decreased quality of life at home. Physically-embodied socially assistive robots (SARs) have the potential to engage PLWDs and assist them in their home-based activities. However, limited attention has been given to the development and assessment of SAR to interact with PLWDs within the context of home-based activities. In this case study, we designed a list of activities, including entertainment, playing games, and ten activities of daily living in a simulated home setting. We invited one older adult (female) without cognitive impairment and two (male) with dementia to perform these activities with the guidance of a humanoid SAR. The results of our observational study demonstrate that the multimodal interaction in SARs, such as verbal communication, eye contact, and gestures, can greatly facilitate the adoption and use of SARs by PLWDs. We found that PLWDs attributed human-like qualities to the robot when performing home-based activities. We also identified main challenges in SAR to assist PLWDs with these tasks.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_52
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148683929
SN - 9783031246692
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 587
EP - 597
BT - Social Robotics - 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Cavallo, Filippo
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Fiorini, Laura
A2 - Sorrentino, Alessandra
A2 - He, Hongsheng
A2 - Liu, Xiaorui
A2 - Matsumoto, Yoshio
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
Y2 - 13 December 2022 through 16 December 2022
ER -