Wiki source code of Robotic Partner
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| 2 | = Pepper = | ||
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| 4 | People with dementia, especially during the early stages where they are still quite autonomous, want to engage in personally 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 the early stages of dementia, and on people who can still live at home and do not need to be placed in 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 one 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 necessarily used for every patient, it is parameterizable, based on how medical professionals assess the situation. | ||
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| 12 | * Provide the person with a reassuring presence. | ||
| 13 | The presence of the robot may help the person to feel safe whenever they have a panic attack or they feel like they are losing control of the situation. Pepper can also engage in conversations with the patient. | ||
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| 15 | * Remind the person to do essential life actions. | ||
| 16 | This can be for instance either to eat, drink, go to bed at a specific time, or take medicine. | ||
| 17 | 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. | ||
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| 19 | * Break down an activity into smaller easy steps so that the person can keep doing them. | ||
| 20 | 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's memory so that the person can ask Pepper and follow the steps to realize the activities they want. | ||
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| 23 | = Human-Robot partnership = | ||
| 24 | Human-Robot partnership is the collaborative process in which humans and robots work together to achieve shared goals. In the case of people with dementia and Pepper, we can define some objectives for them. An objective consists of an achievement, a goal, and a task. For example, the achievement can be to successfully perform a home-gardening activity. In this case, the goal is that the PwD knows how to perform the activity. The task is to listen to Pepper explaining what to do step by step and to use the associated tablet visuals for further help. | ||
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| 26 | In our case, the Human-Robot partnership is included. Pepper needs to be customized by a HCP according to the specific situation of a PwD (including their state of dementia, their daily activities, etc). For example, the medication, meal, or calendar reminders, as well as activity breakdowns such as wake-up routine, need to be specific to a certain PwD. In particular, the activities should be meaningful and enjoyable for the PwD because they can feel connected and engaged. Connectedness is an important motivation for engagement in daily activities. PwDs can feel connected among themselves, with others, or with the environment [1]. Identifying the underlying motivation for PwDs to engage in different activities is important to help them achieve them successfully. | ||
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| 29 | [1] Han, A., Radel, J., McDowd, J. M., & Sabata, D. (2016). Perspectives of people with dementia about meaningful activities: a synthesis. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias®, 31(2), 115-123. https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/1533317515598857 |