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Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2022)

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Worldwide, there are approximately 10 million new cases of dementia reported each year. Societies are facing a growing shortage of healthcare for dementia. In this paper, we built a low-cost, humanoid, Friendly Robot to ease Dementia (FRED) aimed to provide a more affordable and accessible socially-assistive robot to people with cognitive decline. Two prototypes of FRED with different bodies were created. Both prototypes were designed with five functions, including creating a contact, making a phone call, providing reminders, answering questions, and playing games. A usability study was performed with college students in order to assess users’ attitudes, perceptions, and experiences towards each prototype’s user interface design and functions . The results suggest that participants preferred the Version 2 prototype, although, overall, perceptions were positive towards both.

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  1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Robert Bray, Luke MacDougall, Cody Blankenship, Kimberly Mitchell, Fengpei Yuan, Sylvia Cerel-Suhl & Xiaopeng Zhao

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  2. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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  3. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Laura Fiorini

  4. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  5. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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    Yoshio Matsumoto

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Bray, R. et al. (2022). Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_34

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