a. Objectives

The main idea of our solution is to motivate the residents of the care center with dementia to go for a walk in the garden and join them. Increasing the activity level of a person with dementia can have great positive health effects. The walk will be without human assistance with the use of Pepper but it cannot replace human-assisted walks entirely. Besides increasing the mental and physical health of the PwD, the stakeholders also benefit greatly from the solution since it enables them to have more free time and less responsibility. Below the main objective will be summarized in several smaller parts. 

The objectives of the design:

OB1: A higher degree of autonomy; promoting independence and autonomy in PwD while still assuring safety while they are out in the neighbourhood/garden of the care center. 

OB2: Activity in the daily lives of PwD; promoting healthy doses of exercise and enrichment for PwD. 

OB3: PwD participating in more activities on their own; prompting PwD to participate in an activity (walking outside) through motivation, goal-based or emotional. 

OB4: Adding a social companion during the walks; the robot could be a potential social companion and can be extended to taking more than one resident outside at once. 

OB5:Time pressure release for the stakeholders; the stakeholders, like the caretakers and the children of the personas, can have more free time and use their time more efficiently instead of going on several walks with the PwD.