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13 13  One of the earliest stages of dementia is Mild Cognitive Impairment which mildly impairs someone's memory, thinking and functioning. Cognitive games can be an effective strategy to mitigate the effect of MCI. This includes working memory, reasoning, attention, functioning, reduced anxiety and reduced depression. Robot interfaces are particularly potent interfaces for such games. This study focuses on getting feedback from the elderly and caretakers about cognitive games on robot interfaces. 10 participants perform a cognitive exercise on a robot after which they performed a questionnaire about the perceived enjoyment and difficulty of the game. Finally, this was supplemented by two experts giving their opinion of the game. Games were typically seen as easy to moderate with relatively high satisfaction, but feelings were mixed on whether they would like to do it again. Accent and word choice were also downsides. Finally, participants found the game boring and repetitive. Experts considered the concept of the game beneficial to people with MCI but saw problems in accessibility and relative complexity. Suggestions include making it easier for us by using selection rather than dragging. Including negative reinforcement caused the robot to sound patronizing and taunting.  Researchers noticed that participants struggled with understanding the instructions. The biggest issue with accessibility is touch screen sensitivity and finger pressure.
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15 15  * //Mikaela Law, Ho Seok Ahn, Bruce MacDonald, Dina-Sara Vasjakovic, JongYoon Lim, Min Ho Lee, Craig Sutherland, Kathy Peri, Ngaire Kerse, and Elizabeth Broadbent. 2019. User Testing of Cognitive Training Games for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Design Implications. In Social Robotics: 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 464–473. https:~/~/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_43//
16 -* Yu C, Sommerlad A, Sakure L, Livingston G. Socially assistive robots for people with dementia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of feasibility, acceptability and the effect on cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life. Ageing Res Rev. 2022 Jun;78:101633. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2022.101633. Epub 2022 Apr 21. PMID: 35462001.
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18 18  **Application to our Robot**
19 19  Prior work indicates the importance and potential of using social robots to engage patients with dementia, slow the process and improve the quality of their life. The highest need of the patient is that of getting individual care and combating the feeling of loneliness. Due to the progressive nature of dementia, it keeps asking for a greater role of the caretaker. Robots in this realm therefore should augment humans rather than replace them. Our robot, therefore, aims to ease the interactions between the closed one to the person in question to ease their ability to socialize with them. By allowing them to add their own information, it gives a personal connection to the robot while still maintaining the autonomy of the agent. This gives the biggest decrease in the workload of the caretaker. The choice of helping with communication is a good one since this is what the target population expects of the robot.