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1 In order to help people with dementia to live a better life, we believe intelligent robot is an effective way. Nao, which is a bipedal robot with pleasantly rounded features, could play songs, help patients do exercises and also provide companionship. Moreover, it may also help with delay the stage of dementia.
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3 In this project, we design a music-playing robot to help people with dementia. It is an experimental music treatment, which aims to delay the process of dementia. We believe our intelligent robot is a useful method for the patients, through which it could play music to remind patients and help patients do exercises and play games with the pre-installed motion. Our robot mainly focuses on two scenarios, put at home or taken with the patient to the care home. We define the foundation, specification and finally do the evaluation part of our robot design.
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5 === Foundation===
6 In this part, we define and explain the foundation of our robot including operational demands, human factors and technology. We discuss the environment features, stakeholders, target users and several possible problem scenarios. Moreover, we discuss which robot we select and the reason, we also draw the design patterns in this part, and explain why music could help with the delay of dementia.
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8 === Specification===
9 In this part, we define several specific objectives and the related functions of our robot, including helping patients remember things, informing relatives when patients are not responded. Moreover, in the last part we make claims in order to ascertain our robot is helpful.
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11 === Evaluation===
12 In this part, we define the prototype and test of our robot. We divided the test in specific steps, including method, participants, experiment design, tasks, measures and procedure.