• DocumentCode
    651039
  • Title

    Kitchen extension robot module for elderly housing

  • Author

    Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Tanaka, T. ; Suganuma, Yusuke ; Hashimoto, Mime ; Suzuki, Takumi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Syst. Design, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Hino, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Oct. 30 2013-Nov. 2 2013
  • Firstpage
    378
  • Lastpage
    382
  • Abstract
    Recently, public housing are rebuilt for the elderly in the center of a city. The main purposes of rebuilding are flatting floors, installation of handrails, and expansion of bathroom and toilet for people using wheelchair. Because giving priority to them, spaces for kitchen and dining room are very limited. The kitchen doesn´t have enough cooking and storage space; and dining room doesn´t have space for dining table. In this study, we propose a robot module that can expand spaces for cooking, store electric appliances, cooking tools and tableware, and transform into the dining table.
  • Keywords
    architecture; assisted living; buildings (structures); geriatrics; intelligent structures; service robots; bathroom expansion; cooking space; cooking tools; dining room; dining table; elderly housing; electric appliances; flatting floors; handrail installation; kitchen extension robot module; public housing; rebuilding; storage space; tableware; toilet expansion; wheelchair; Architectural Furniture; Intelligent Space; Smart Variable Space;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2013 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jeju
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1195-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/URAI.2013.6677292
  • Filename
    6677292