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| 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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| 5 | = **Home**= | ||
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| 7 | Patients usually live home alone at this stage. | ||
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| 9 | == General environment== | ||
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| 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 tablet could be moved but it should always be in a reachable place by the patient. The consists of a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and a living room. | ||
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| 13 | == Social Contact== | ||
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| 15 | Under this circumstance, people will have no social contact with other people; for the robot it only have to focus on the user himself. | ||
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| 17 | = **Care facilities**= | ||
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| 19 | 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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| 21 | == General environment== | ||
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| 23 | 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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| 25 | Our robot choice allows the patients to pick up the robot and bring it with themselves to these facilities. | ||
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| 27 | == Social Contact== | ||
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| 29 | Under this circumstance, patients will have communications with other people as well as the caregivers, for the robot it has to distinguish and focus on his owner to avoid confusion. | ||
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