ArticleInternational journal of social robotics2022
Assessing the Impact of an Original Soft Communicative Robot in a Nursing Home in Japan: Will Softness or Conversations Bring more Smiles to Older People?
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- Built Environment and Assistive Technology Design in Residential Aged Care: A Scoping Review and Mapping of Evaluation Methods and Measures to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Patterns and Trends in Global Nursing Robotics Research: A Bibliometric Study.Journal of nursing management · 2025Review
- Mobile robots for isolation-room hospital settings: A scenario-based preliminary study.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Technology-Enabled Recreation and Leisure Programs and Activities for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: Rapid Scoping Review.JMIR neurotechnology · 2024Review
- Robots in Assisted Living Facilities: Scoping Review.JMIR aging · 2023Article
- SoftSAR: The New Softer Side of Socially Assistive Robots-Soft Robotics with Social Human-Robot Interaction Skills.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
It has been reported that robotics-aided care can contribute to enhancing older people's social participation and quality of life in nursing homes, while simultaneously reducing the burden on care professionals at nighttime. Due to increasing demand for social care and the relative workforce shortage, it is likely that a greater number and variety of robots will be introduced and implemented in the future. While the benefits of applying robots and assistive technologies are recognized, the current limitations and weaknesses have also been identified. One of these is the difficulty associated with a user-centered design, involving older adults with impaired cognitive and sensory abilities in nursing homes. In order to overcome this challenge, a project was carried out to develop a soft and compact bedside communication robot with an input/output device, connected to existing technologies (e.g. monitoring camera, biological sensor). Drawing on the principle of
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