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Effective Application of PALRO: A Humanoid Type Robot for People with Dementia

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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PALRO is a humanoid type robot which can communicate with human through voice. This paper describes effective application for people with Dementia of PALRO. PALRO, a humanoid communication robot (Fujisoft Co Ltd.). It responds to users’ speaking and even remembers faces of over 100 people. Our team wanted to see how seniors with dementia would react to PALRO and it’s programs. We concluded that the effectiveness of PALRO is encourage people with dementia to interact with others, verbal and non-verbal interactions with others, et cetera.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Inoue

  2. Nursing home Shohu-en, Chiba, Japan

    Naomi Sakuma & Maiko Okada

  3. Tokyo College of Welfare, Tokyo, Japan

    Chihiro Sasaki

  4. Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan

    Mio Nakamura

  5. Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuyoshi Wada

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  1. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69,, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Deborah Fels

  3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

    Dominique Archambault

  4. Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Peňáz

  5. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, Vienna, 1050, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Inoue, K., Sakuma, N., Okada, M., Sasaki, C., Nakamura, M., Wada, K. (2014). Effective Application of PALRO: A Humanoid Type Robot for People with Dementia. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_70

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