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Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People?
(1) Background: Using autonomous social robots in selected areas of care for community-dwelling older adults is one of the promising approaches to address the problem of the widening care gap. We posed the question of whether a possibility to interact with the technology to be used had an impact on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270866 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051717 |
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author | Tobis, Slawomir Piasek, Joanna Cylkowska-Nowak, Miroslawa Suwalska, Aleksandra |
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description | (1) Background: Using autonomous social robots in selected areas of care for community-dwelling older adults is one of the promising approaches to address the problem of the widening care gap. We posed the question of whether a possibility to interact with the technology to be used had an impact on the scores given by the respondents in various domains of needs and requirements for social robots to be deployed in care for older individuals. (2) Methods: During the study, the opinions of older people (65+; n = 113; with no severe cognitive impairment) living in six social care institutions about a robot in care for older people were collected twice using the Users’ Needs, Requirements and Abilities Questionnaire (UNRAQ): after seeing a photo of the robot only and after a 90–150 min interaction with the TIAGo robot. (3) Results: Mean total scores for both assistive and social functions were higher after the interaction (p < 0.05). A positive correlation was found between opinion changes in social and assistive functions (r = 0.4842; p = 0.0000). (4) Conclusions: Preimplementation studies and assessments should include the possibility to interact with the robot to provide its future users with a clear idea of the technology and facilitate necessary customisations of the machine. |
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spelling | pubmed-89151032022-03-12 Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? Tobis, Slawomir Piasek, Joanna Cylkowska-Nowak, Miroslawa Suwalska, Aleksandra Sensors (Basel) Article (1) Background: Using autonomous social robots in selected areas of care for community-dwelling older adults is one of the promising approaches to address the problem of the widening care gap. We posed the question of whether a possibility to interact with the technology to be used had an impact on the scores given by the respondents in various domains of needs and requirements for social robots to be deployed in care for older individuals. (2) Methods: During the study, the opinions of older people (65+; n = 113; with no severe cognitive impairment) living in six social care institutions about a robot in care for older people were collected twice using the Users’ Needs, Requirements and Abilities Questionnaire (UNRAQ): after seeing a photo of the robot only and after a 90–150 min interaction with the TIAGo robot. (3) Results: Mean total scores for both assistive and social functions were higher after the interaction (p < 0.05). A positive correlation was found between opinion changes in social and assistive functions (r = 0.4842; p = 0.0000). (4) Conclusions: Preimplementation studies and assessments should include the possibility to interact with the robot to provide its future users with a clear idea of the technology and facilitate necessary customisations of the machine. MDPI 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8915103/ /pubmed/35270866 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051717 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tobis, Slawomir Piasek, Joanna Cylkowska-Nowak, Miroslawa Suwalska, Aleksandra Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title | Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title_full | Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title_fullStr | Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title_full_unstemmed | Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title_short | Robots in Eldercare: How Does a Real-World Interaction with the Machine Influence the Perceptions of Older People? |
title_sort | robots in eldercare: how does a real-world interaction with the machine influence the perceptions of older people? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270866 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22051717 |
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