Entertainment services of a healthcare robot system for older people in private and public spaces

Author

Ho Seok Ahn ; Datta, Chandan ; I-Han Kuo ; Stafford, Rebecca ; Kerse, Ngaire ; Peri, Kathy ; Broadbent, Elizabeth ; MacDonald, Bruce A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2015

fDate

17-19 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

222

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the use of entertainment services on our healthcare robot system, and find (1) how long robots were used, (2) which entertainment service was most used, (3) which music video category was most preferred, and (4) which music video was most preferred. We developed a healthcare robot system, HealthBot, and deployed several of them in an older care facility, and obtained the usage histories of three kinds of entertainment services: music videos, quotes, and pictures. We report results about the preferences of participants in private and public spaces.

Keywords

assisted living; entertainment; medical robotics; mobile robots; service robots; HealthBot; entertainment services; healthcare robot system; music video category; older care facility; older people; pictures; private spaces; public spaces; quotes; usage histories; Automation; Entertainment industry; Heart beat; Hospitals; Robot sensing systems; HealthBot; entertainment service; healthcare robot; the elderly care;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 2015 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Queenstown

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARA.2015.7081150

Filename

7081150