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Version 5.1 by Mathieu Jung-Muller on 2022/02/24 13:17
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2 ===Pepper===
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4 People with dementia, especially during early stages where they are still quite autonomous, want to engage in personal meaningful activities that they enjoy. They also want to keep the feeling that they are in control of their life.
5 As we focus on early stages of dementia, and on people who can still live at home and do no need to be placed to a medical care center, we decided to focus on the communication aspect of the robotic partner.
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7 For this reason, we chose Pepper. Pepper allows a higher level of social interaction, as she can engage in higher mobility tasks and also had a tablet interface attached to her, which makes it more intuitive to use.
8 Furthermore, as the patients are at home, Pepper needs to be customized for every of them. The tablet interface will be of great use for the healthcare professional who needs to enter data every week.
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10 The interactions performed by Pepper are the following (at least for our current plan). Not all of them are necessary used for every patient, it is parameterizable.
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12 1. Check on the person to be sure they do not have a major health issue (loss of consciousness, major bleeding, etc).
13 This can be done via the cameras of the robot, maybe even with the sound sensing system. Pepper needs to be able to recognize whether the person is conscious or not, and some dangerous situations (image recognition for blood for instance).
14 2. Remind the person of their medicine to take.
15 The medicine planning for the week is entered by a healthcare professional who visits their patients at home. When it is time to take medicine, Pepper interacts with the patient. As it is not always the best option to make the patient feel they have forgotten something, Pepper can also engage in a conversation with the patient leading to the point where the medicine is reminded.
16 3. Break down an activity into smaller easy steps so that the person can keep doing them.
17 The healthcare professional spends time with the patient to figure out which activities they enjoy the most while being unable to carry out the tasks required. Then, the professional enters the different steps into the robot memory so that the person can ask Pepper and follow the steps to realize the activities they want.