Abstract
We designed HIRO, a robotic baby doll, to be used in an interactive, non-pharmacological intervention that combines doll therapy with robot technology for elderly people with dementia. We took a minimal design approach; only the most basic human-like features are represented on the robotic system to encourage users to use their imagination to fill in the missing details. The robot emits baby voice recordings as the user interacts with it, giving the robot more realistic mannerisms and enhancing the interaction between user and robot. In addition, the minimal design simplifies the system configuration of the robot, making it inexpensive and intuitive for users to handle. In this paper, we discuss the benefits of the developed robot for elderly dementia patients and their caregivers.
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We refer to both prototype version and commercialized one as HIRO in this paper since basic functions are shared between them.
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This work was supported by JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR18A1, Japan. We thank all staffs and residents in Ryusei Fukushikai Yume Paratice for helping our experiment.
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Yamato, N., Sumioka, H., Shiomi, M., Ishiguro, H., Kohda, Y. (2021). Robotic Baby Doll with Minimal Design for Interactive Doll Therapy in Elderly Dementia Care. In: Leitner, C., Ganz, W., Satterfield, D., Bassano, C. (eds) Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80840-2_48
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