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Liza Wensink 2.1 1 |(% style="width:113px" %)**Upside**|(% style="width:705px" %)(((
Maya Elasmar 5.1 2 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 for the health of PwD as it will motivate them to move more often and go outside. Physical exercise and movement stimulates the physical and mental health. Moreover, the robot will be a social company to the PwD, hence they will not feel lonely when they go on a walk. The robot will have a conversation with them optimally about that person's interests. They will also feel more fulfilled by our design. As they will be able to go outside on their own without having to wait for someone else and taking his/her time. They will feel less of a burden and more freely. This hopefully gives them a sense of their "normal", "old", life they are used to continuing. Finally, our design has also a positive effect on the caregivers and the family member, as it gives them more free time for other tasks and family members.
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5 **The negative effects that could potentially come from our design are:**
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7 - 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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9 - 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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11 - 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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13 - 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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15 - 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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Ruud de Jong 1.1 17 |(% style="width:113px" %)**Use Cases**|(% style="width:705px" %)
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