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The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has prompted a surge in the adoption of technology, highlighting a number of potential applications for Socially Assistive Robots (SARs). Our entire healthcare system has been under unprecedented strain, and going forward, we must consider how robotic technology could he...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9207582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35714374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221106406 |
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author | Getson, Cristina Nejat, Goldie |
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description | The rapid spread of COVID-19 has prompted a surge in the adoption of technology, highlighting a number of potential applications for Socially Assistive Robots (SARs). Our entire healthcare system has been under unprecedented strain, and going forward, we must consider how robotic technology could help improve the quality of care and day-to-day functionality of our care facilities. Herein, we present our human-robot interaction study in a local long-term care centre during the pandemic and the lessons learned from deploying a SAR to screen staff members. We investigate staff acceptance and the influence of demographics on perceptions of the SAR. Results show that overall, staff were positive about the screening robot, and that autonomous screening with a social robot is a potential application in long-term care homes. We further detail the challenges and future opportunities to develop SARs, including recommendations to successfully implement and adopt these robots in a post-pandemic society. |
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spelling | pubmed-92075822022-08-31 The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society Getson, Cristina Nejat, Goldie Healthc Manage Forum Original Articles The rapid spread of COVID-19 has prompted a surge in the adoption of technology, highlighting a number of potential applications for Socially Assistive Robots (SARs). Our entire healthcare system has been under unprecedented strain, and going forward, we must consider how robotic technology could help improve the quality of care and day-to-day functionality of our care facilities. Herein, we present our human-robot interaction study in a local long-term care centre during the pandemic and the lessons learned from deploying a SAR to screen staff members. We investigate staff acceptance and the influence of demographics on perceptions of the SAR. Results show that overall, staff were positive about the screening robot, and that autonomous screening with a social robot is a potential application in long-term care homes. We further detail the challenges and future opportunities to develop SARs, including recommendations to successfully implement and adopt these robots in a post-pandemic society. SAGE Publications 2022-06-17 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9207582/ /pubmed/35714374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221106406 Text en © 2022 The Canadian College of Health Leaders. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Getson, Cristina Nejat, Goldie The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title | The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title_full | The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title_fullStr | The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title_full_unstemmed | The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title_short | The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
title_sort | adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: during covid-19 and in a post-pandemic society |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9207582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35714374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221106406 |
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