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Appropriate talking pattern of an information support robot for people living with dementia
— a case study | | Author(s) | Yuko Nishiura, Takenobu Inoue, Misato Nihei |
| Journal title | Journal of Assistive Technologies, vol 8, no 4, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 177-187 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jat.htm |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Assistive technology ; Activities of older people ; Independence ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | The authors of this paper were in the process of exploring an information support robot to support daily activities of people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. The purpose of the study was to reveal how the robot should talk to an older woman with dementia to make her perform daily activities. The robot asked the participant to do a number of daily activities as follows: Task A taking medicine; Task B measuring blood pressure; and Task C cleaning up the room in three different ways for each task. In the talking pattern 1 (TP1), the robot simply informed what the tasks were. The talking patterns 2 and 3 (TP2 and TP3) were separated according to the process of activities in two and three steps, respectively. The participant was required to answer `yes' if she understood what the robot said to her, and perform the tasks. The participant was not able to prepare water in Task A when the robot spoke the TP1 (performance rate (PR) was 71.4 per cent). However she could perfectly take medicine in the case when the robot spoke the processes of the task by the TP3 (PR was 100.0 per cent). Similar tendencies were observed in the Tasks B and C. Multicentre studies would be required to apply these findings to a larger population. It may be important to determine how the robot talked to people with dementia to properly facilitate their daily activities. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150619258 A |
| Classmark | EA: E4: M: G: C3: 69P |
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