The Humanoid Robot has to process basic decision-making within the interaction of a Person with Dementia and possibly display the appropriate schedule. The schedule is upkept by the patient themselves as well as the Nurses/ Caregiver Personnel (for scheduled health services) before any display interaction. Stopping the interaction preemptively is part of the display functionality as a strategy to give more independence to the patients.
Solution Structure
Solution Description
All actors (humanoid robot, patient) are co-located. The schedule-making is not part of this Team Design Pattern.
PwD initiates interaction
Robot gives an option for further interaction, and schedule display.
PwD makes a decision on will to engage;
if they do not want to engage, the Robot reacts without judgement and moves from the current position in the scene, back to the original state (restart Scene A: Displaying the Schedule)
Robot displays the appropriate schedule and walks PwD through it.
+ Offload of Nurse/ Caregiver Personnel repetitive interaction of reminding patients of their schedule so that (s)he can concentrate on other aspects of their jobs.
- The schedule display is limited in seeing mistakes and making corrections, possibly leading to the miscommunication of actual tasks happening.