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1. Situated Activities

Version 11.1 by Pravesha Ramsundersingh on 2024/02/26 15:45

Environment(s)

Main subject

  • People medically diagnosed with early-stage dementia.

How does the design solution help to solve the problems of a subject with early-stage dementia?

  • The robot assistant (NAO) will take the role of an assistant.
  • NAO can interact with the patient subject continuously throughout the day.
  • NAO can for example remind the patient subject of their schedule, and ensure that the subject stay in touch with their relatives. Furthermore, it will be able to interact with the subject through conversation.

In what environment can NAO be implemented?

  • In the residence of people with early-stage dementia. More specifically, a room where the patient spend most of their day. A potential idea: is the connection to Sonos speaker system or Google Home to be connected anywhere in the house.

  • Implement some sort of learning curve of getting used to the robot (? - maybe expand on this?)

  • It could be weird to wake up and have a talking robot in your house, so we need to think about this...

Activities

Considering the previous section, we need to specify on which specific times of the day or during specific events in the patient subject's life the robot can be used. It would help to have the robot "always on", but this can cause a lot of privacy issues (if the robot would have a microphone / camera). We should read literature about the setting on when and where NAO can be used. 

  • When NAO detects that the subject is present in the room, talk to the person.
  • When the subject is used for NAO to be present, interact when specific questions are asked.
  • When the subject is used for NAO to be present, NAO can come up with questions or start a basic conversation which could lead to reduce anxiety and stress.
  • When the subject is visited, NAO can interact in the conversation to reduce anxiety and stress.