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Development of Robot System for Elderly Who Live Alone

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2018)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 10897))

Abstract

In this research, new concept elderly people watching system that aims to reduce the burden of the staff of community general support center is introduced. The experiment using robotic dolls to determine the system requirement. As a result, importance of appearance and communication function of the robot was confirmed. The robot which supports watching elderly people has been developed. It can give daily life related information to the elderly user by aural communication.

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  1. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2018). http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2017/1012_002.html

  2. Inoue, K., Sasaki, C., Nakamura, M.: Communication robots for elderly people and their families to support their daily lives - case study of two families living with the communication robot. Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 217, 980–983 (2015)

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  1. Toyo University, 48-1 Oka, Asaka-shi, Saitama, 351-8510, Japan

    Yoshiyuki Takahashi

  2. Teikyo University, 1-1 Toyosatodai, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi, 320-8551, Japan

    Motoki Takagi

  3. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-10 Higashiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, 116-8551, Japan

    Kaoru Inoue

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Correspondence to Yoshiyuki Takahashi .

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  1. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

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Takahashi, Y., Takagi, M., Inoue, K. (2018). Development of Robot System for Elderly Who Live Alone. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94274-2_54

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