Summary Robot Interaction Lecture 3 + Literature

Robot interaction
Lecture 3 + Literature

, Lecture 3 - Summary
Robots in healthcare
1st paper:

Use of Communicati on Robots in Healthcare

3 kinds of healthcare robots:
1. Typology healthcare robots - Assistive Robots
 They assist in all kinds of tasks that can occur in healthcare (lifting people, picking
things up, help people feed).
2. Typology healthcare robots - Monitoring Robots
 They help people both at home as in a hospital by monitoring patients on:
o Health parameters
o Ring the bell in dangerous moments (a patient falling or glucose levels
dropping)
 The robot-integrated smart home (RISH) can detect 37 human body
activities and has a 80% accuracy on detecting a fall.
3. Typology healthcare robots - Social Robots (here lies the focus)
 These robots interact with people
 They enhance health and psychological factors by providing companionship
o By supporting mental health, loneliness, depression, anxiety, ‘feel good’
 People who are mentally stimulated, tend to be physically healthier
 These robots have two main target audiences:
o Elderly
 Demented elderly
 Mentally healthy
o Children
 Autism
 Diabetes
 Cancer
 Adolescents - not many studies have yet been done
It is thought that social robots can limit depression and
stimulate self-disclosure
 Disabled (the pepper robot)
o General: hospitality and other services
 Monitoring, intake, waiting rooms, diagnosis for example

There are 3 ways to research the effects of a
medical treatment:
(so also for robots):
1. Case studies
a. A lot of different variables come in to play so no conclusions can be drawn from this
study.
2. Comparison studies: groups / conditions
i. Groups = different groups of people (preferable randomly chosen)