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Version 17.1 by Péter Angeli on 2022/04/03 17:25
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2.1 | 1 | //Places and the environment where the robot will be used.// |
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| 3 | The robot should be generally used in either the patient's home or at a care facility. | ||
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14.1 | 5 | = **Home** = |
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3.1 | 7 | Patients usually live home alone at this stage. |
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14.1 | 9 | == General environment == |
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15.1 | 11 | People of old age usually have smaller houses and fewer rooms than bigger families. This allows the user to not move the robot room-by-room, but have it in a central position from where it's audible in the entire house. The home consists of a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and a living room. |
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14.1 | 13 | == Social Contact == |
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13.1 | 15 | Under this circumstance, people will have no social contact with other people; for the robot, it only has to focus on the user himself. |
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14.1 | 17 | = **Care facilities** = |
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16.1 | 19 | //A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, old people's homes, assisted living facilities care homes, rest homes, convalescent homes, or convalescent care.// |
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17.1 | 21 | - [[Source>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_home]] |
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3.1 | 23 | This robot is not for patients who live indefinitely in care facilities but for people who come regularly but still live at home. |
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14.1 | 25 | == General environment == |
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| 27 | Care facilities could be social places where elderly people talk to each other and socialize while being supervised by professional caregivers. | ||
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| 29 | Our robot choice allows the patients to pick up the robot and bring it with themselves to these facilities. | ||
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14.1 | 31 | == Social Contact == |
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14.1 | 33 | Under this circumstance, patients will have communications with other people as well as the caregivers, and patient's main focus will not be placed on the robot brought, so we assume the robot to enter a supervised mode and try not disturb the conversations. |