Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged

Author

Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Shibata, Takanori ; Saito, Tomoko ; Sakamoto, Kayoko ; Tanie, Kazuo

Author_Institution

Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute Advance Science and Technology (AIST) 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, JAPAN k-wada@aist.go.jp

fYear

2005

fDate

18-22 April 2005

Firstpage

2785

Lastpage

2790

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 one year. 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

Elderly People; Human-Robot Interaction; Mental Commit Robot; Robot Assisted Activity; Aging; Animals; Hospitals; Human robot interaction; Medical services; Medical treatment; Mood; Psychology; Seals; Senior citizens; Elderly People; Human-Robot Interaction; Mental Commit Robot; Robot Assisted Activity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8914-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570535

Filename

1570535