Category:
Projects
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging
, autonomy
, caregiver
, comfort
, device
, sensor
, technology
, wellbeing
Description:
International project whose goal is to design the first care robots that adapt the way they behave and speak to the culture of the person they assist. By designing robots that are more sensitive to the user's needs, the innovative solution will foster older adults' independence and autonomy, with a greater impact on quality of life.
Overview:
As ageing populations across the world are placing health and social care systems under pressure, culturally competent robots can assist human caregivers in some tasks, thus helping to reduce the pressure in hospitals and care homes and improve care delivery at home.To achieve this vision, the robots must be accepted by older people and their caregivers. We believe developing robots that are aware of the culture of the person they interact with and model their behaviour accordingly, will make them more acceptable to older people.
Objectives:
SCIENCE ? The project will explore the idea that cultural competence can improve the acceptability of health-care robots in society. It will also study how to make a robot culturally competent.TECHNOLOGY ? The project aims to build a system that integrates the state-of-the-art in assistive domestic robots with scientific evidence associated with culturally competent robots.VALIDATION ? The project will design experiments to explore if and how cultural competence makes robots more acceptable and sensitive to the user?s needs, customs and lifestyle.
Initiatives:
The maineidea is to advance the healthcare robots to the culturally competent robots that will help the older people in tasks such as reminding them to take their medication, encouraging them to keep active and eat a healthy diet, helping them keep in touch with family and friends through the internet, listening to their favourite radio stations, and reminding them about important cultural and religious festivals.The robots are validated in three different clutural environments Japan, Uk, India
Shortcomings:
No information available after project life time, sustainability
Relevance:
5
Relevance Description:
Awareness of the need to develop more cultrally (ethnically) aware support to elderly
Quality:
5
Opinion:
The hight quality cooperation between industry and academy with validated product.
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
http://caressesrobot.org/en/
Keywords:
Robotics, AHA, nursing home, quality of life, user?s needs, older adults? independence, autonomy
Submitted By:
Oscar Zanutto
Email:
turukalo@uns.ac.rs