Abstract
Ageing population is at the center of the looming health care crisis in most parts of developed and developing world. Australia like most of the western world is bracing up for the looming ageing population crisis, spiraling health care costs and expected serious shortage of health care workers. Assistive Service robots and companion robots are being seen as one of the ways for supporting aged care facilities to meet this challenge and improve the quality of care of the elderly including mental and physical health outcomes, as well as support the health care workers in personalizing care. In this paper the authors report on design and first ever field trial of Matilda, a human like assistive communication (service and companion) robot in appearance and attributes (e.g., voice, expressions, gestures, emotions) in nursing homes in Australia. The work demonstrates Matilda's ability to break intergeneration technology barriers with elderly, engage elderly in group and one to one activities for improving personalization of care and wellbeing.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | IHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium |
Editors | Ani Nahapetian, Malika Mahoui |
Place of Publication | New York NY USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 295-304 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450307819 |
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Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium - Miami Beach Resort and Spa, Miami, United States of America Duration: 28 Jan 2012 → 30 Jan 2012 Conference number: 2nd https://sites.google.com/site/web2011ihi/ |
Conference
Conference | 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium |
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Abbreviated title | IHI 2012 |
Country/Territory | United States of America |
City | Miami |
Period | 28/01/12 → 30/01/12 |
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Keywords
- Affective communication robot
- Aged care
- Nursing home
- Personalization of care
- Personhood
- Wellbeing