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= Problem statement and research questions =

This project uses a Social Cognitive Engineering (SCE) approach to guide the design and research process. The SCE method provides a systematic approach to our study of robots for PwDs. The main goal of our application is to improve the well-being of the person with dementia (PwD) and of those living with them.

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For the prototype that we have designed now, these are some research questions that we want to address.

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1. Are PwDs able to use our prototype smoothly?

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1. Can medication/meal/activities reminders help PwDs to improve their lives?

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1. Can activity breakdown help people better manage their lives? The effects of using such technology in a natural setting.

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1. Does the robot have a positive effect on people’s emotional state?

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1. How do participants respond to the music? How robot can support people with dementia in accessing, enjoying music with personal meaning?

= Method =

We target some PwDs that are similar to the personas we described. The PwDs will be observed during the evaluation as well as be reviewed after the evaluation to obtain the data and feedback.

== Participants ==

For this study, we intend to find 20 people. The participants will all be early-stage dementia patients and we will make sure to include at least 5 males and 5 females to avoid gender imbalance. The group will include at least 5 people that are 50 or younger and we expect most of the other participants to be between 75 and 90. The participants will all join the same 3-hour session and will be given 5 to 10 minutes to perform their tasks.

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== Experimental design ==

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Since our evaluating process is relatively short, we use within-subject, which means each participant goes through all conditions. In this way, our experiments tend to have more statistical power and less variability.

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== Tasks ==

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All participants will go through our designed testing process, which includes medication/meal/activity reminder, listening to the music, activity breakdown.

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1. Medication/meal/activity reminder: The robot will remind the patient of daily activities, through which we can see the effectiveness according to their reactions.

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1. Listen to music: PwDs will test some music functionalities in this part. PwDs can choose music by themselves by interacting with the robot or they can listen to random music which is picked according to their preferences.

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1. Activity breakdown: In this part, the robot will break down some complex tasks into a list of simple tasks and PwDs can follow the steps to accomplish complex tasks.

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