Robot therapy as for recreation for elderly people with dementia - Game recreation using a pet-type robot -

Toshimitsu Hamada*, Hiroki Okubo, Kazuya Inoue, Joji Maruyama, Hisashi Onari, Yoshihito Kagawa, Tomomi Hashimoto

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    Abstract

    Most elderly people staving in nursing homes have considerable dementia, and various kinds of recreation program have hence been executed in order to improve or prevent this problem. However the effect of recreation has not been proved quantitatively. In this paper, we show the relationship between actions of elderly people with considerable dementia during recreation and abilities of memorization, emotion control, accommodation to society, etc., and decompose their actions into basic action factors. We propose a design method for recreation programs composed of effective factor actions for improving dementia. We analyze the effect of recreation in an experiment of robot therapy recreation based on the proposed method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
    Pages174-179
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN - Munich
    Duration: 2008 Aug 12008 Aug 3

    Other

    Other17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
    CityMunich
    Period08/8/108/8/3

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    • Human-Computer Interaction

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