Team Design Patterns: Reminder Functionality

The Humanoid Robot is designed to assist patients classified as Person with Dementia in improving their quality of life. This is done by assisting them in their daily life through reminders. The allocation of tasks should be harmonized to the momentary capacities of the coordinator and robot, the varying needs of the players, and to the context. Pausing the game is part of the game management, as a mitigation strategy for prevention and handling of troubles that appear during the game play.

The team wants to design a robot that has a reminder function to help the elderly people with dementia to remember important things in their lives. By doing so the robot can help to improve the quality of life for patients as well as promote senses of well-being.

All actors (activity coordinator, humanoid robot, players) are co-located.

1. Robot leads the game (i.e., is the game master, GM).
2. Vulnerable game participants play the game (i.e., are the players, PL).
3. Robot reflects on game play.
4. Activity coordinator (CO) supervises players' state and engagement;
   1. if (s)he identifies risks for troubles to appear, the coordinator initiates a takeover from scene A (Active) to B (Pause).
   2. if (s)he recognizes that the risk for troubles disappeared, the coordinator initiates a takeover (from scene B to A)
5. Activity coordinator starts and leads a social activity,
6. Players socialize under the guidance of the activity coordinator.
7. Robot engages in small talk.

• Player:  Show perceptual and cognitive capabilities to play the game.
• Coordinator: Know the vulnerabilities of the players (memory). Show perceptual and cognitive skills to identify and mitigate risks for troubles in the game play.

• RQ01.0: Lead the bingo game
• RQ02.0: Personalize game assignments
• RQ03.0: Reflect on game performance
• RQ04.0: Respond to players conversations.

+ Offload of coordinator so that (s)he can concentrate on advancing players individual and social experiences.

 - The game play may be constrained by robot's limitations to sense and understand players' game experience

Status: Proto Pattern.

Instantiations: UC01.0: Music Bingo.