Title :
Robot assisted activity at a health service facility for the aged for 17 months: an interim report of long-term experiment
Author :
Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Shibata, Takanori ; Saito, Tomoko ; Sakamoto, Kayoko ; Tanie, Kazuo
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Intelligent Syst., National Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
A long-term experiment of robot assisted activity for elderly people has been conducted at a health service facility for the aged since Aug. 2003. Three therapeutic seal robots, Paro, were introduced there. This paper describes the results of the experiment for 17 months. Face scales that consist of illustrations of person´s faces were used to evaluate person´s moods. In addition, geriatric depression scales were used to measure person´s depression by questionnaires. As the results, feelings of the elderly people were improved by interaction with the seal robots.
Keywords :
geriatrics; handicapped aids; man-machine systems; medical robotics; Paro; elderly people; health service facility; human-robot interaction; mental commit robot; robot assisted activity; therapeutic seal robots; Aging; Animals; Hospitals; Human robot interaction; Medical services; Medical treatment; Mood; Pediatrics; Seals; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2005. IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8947-6
DOI :
10.1109/ARSO.2005.1511638
