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Version 3.1 by Maya Elasmar on 2023/04/02 23:13
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2 **The positive effects that could potentially come from our design are:**
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4 - Independence. PwD may feel a higher degree of independence as a result of being able to walk with the robot, instead of waiting for a family member or caretaker to take them on a walk.
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6 - Health benefits. The robot will, hopefully, prompt PwD to move more often and to go outside more often, which means more physical exercise and movement, which has health benefits. This incorporates both physical and mental health.
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8 - Freeing up time. This aspect is considered the caretaker's side. With a robot helping to take residents outside caretakers' time can be spent on more difficult tasks requiring human attention.
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10 - Social stimulation. The robot can, in the cases that it is needed, according to our design also be a social companion and engage in small talk or talk regarding the person's interests. Another idea is potentially gathering multiple PwD in the garden or something like that, which could provide another social opportunity.
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12 - Fulfillment. PwD will, hopefully, feel more fulfilled knowing they are able to go outside on their own and move more freely, without having to wait for a person or feel like they are taking up somebody's time. Hopefully, this will make them feel more able and give them a sense of their "normal", "old", life they are used to continuing.
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15 There are several positive effects that could come from our design. Firstly, we believe our design will make the people with dementia more independent, as they will be able to go on a walk whenever they want. They will be waiting for the caregivers or family members to take them. Secondly, our design will be beneficial
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18 **The negative effects that could potentially come from our design are:**
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20 - PwD ignoring the prompts of the robot. This is always a possibility that the prompts or things that the robot says to PwD go ignored, for example, directions of where to go could go ignored. In these cases, we have to consider what exactly would be done in these instances.
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22 - Prompts being perceived as annoying. This could happen in settings when the patient is asked too many times about if they know where they are going, if prompts are improperly timed or if the patient is reminded too often about something. Therefore it is worth considering when exactly prompts should be deployed and whether or not direction prompts are needed if the PwD is following the correct path already.
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24 - Potential hardware issues. We need to consider problems that might make our system act wrongfully because sensors or other hardware components don't work the way they should. For example because of weather conditions, or microphone not taking up speech properly because or noise, or a particular way in which PwD could potentially talk.
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26 - Battery has a certain lifespan. The battery lifespan of the Pepper robot is 12h which is more than enough for a walk, but it is important to consider and plan so that this does not under any circumstances run out during the walk.
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28 - Privacy issues. It is important to consider how much should actually be monitored during the walks or how much information the robot needs to have access to, since allowing for residents privacy is also important.
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