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Watching and medical care for the elderly is one of promising application fields of IoT. Humanoid robots are considered to be useful agents for not only relaxing the elderly but also watching and alerting them in a daily life. Detecting and preventing the risk of indoor heat stroke is an important issue especially for the elderly who live alone. A method for reliably conveying the possible danger of the indoor heat stroke to the elderly is a crucial factor to implement a practical system. In this paper, we describe the system for informing unusual conditions to the elderly by using a communication robot that normally gives users healing. We designed and implemented a set of normal and special motions for a desktop humanoid robot and evaluated whether the robot motions effectively make users aware of abnormal situations.
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Yatsuda, A., Haramaki, T., Nishino, H. (2019). A Robot Gesture Framework for Watching and Alerting the Elderly. In: Barolli, L., Kryvinska, N., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advances in Network-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98530-5_12
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