The domesticated robot design guidelines for assisting older adults to age in place

Many older adults wish to remain in their own homes as they age [16]. However, challenges in performing home upkeep tasks threaten an older adult's ability to age in place. Even healthy independently living older adults experience challenges in maintaining their home [13]. Challenges with home...

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Published in:2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Vol. 2012; pp. 335 - 342
Main Authors: Beer, Jenay M., Smarr, Cory-Ann, Chen, Tiffany L., Prakash, Akanksha, Mitzner, Tracy L., Kemp, Charles C., Rogers, Wendy A.
Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.03.2012
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Aging
Aging in Place
Assistive Robotics
Chores
Cleaning
Design Guidelines
Home
Home Environment
Humans
Interviews
Medical services
Mobile Manipulation
Needs Assessment
Older Adults
Robots
Service Robotics
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features > Data types and structures
USA Councils
assistive robotics
mobile manipulation
needs assessment
service robots
design guidelines
older adults
home environment
aging
chores
aging in place
home
Measurement
Service Robotics
Mobile Manipulation
Design Guidelines
Older Adults
Assistive Robotics
Design
Aging in Place
Chores
Aging
Experimentation
Home Environment
Home
Human Factors
Needs Assessment
ISBN:145031063X, 9781450310635
ISSN:2167-2121
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Summary:Many older adults wish to remain in their own homes as they age [16]. However, challenges in performing home upkeep tasks threaten an older adult's ability to age in place. Even healthy independently living older adults experience challenges in maintaining their home [13]. Challenges with home tasks can be compensated through technology, such as home robots. However, for home robots to be adopted by older adult users, they must be designed to meet older adults' needs for assistance and the older users must be amenable to robot assistance for those needs. We conducted a needs assessment to (1) assess older adults' openness to assistance from robots; and (2) understand older adults' opinions about using an assistive robot to help around the home. We administered questionnaires and conducted structured group interviews with 21 independently living older adults (ages 65-93). The questionnaire data suggest that older adults prefer robot assistance for cleaning and fetching/organizing tasks overall. However their assistance preferences discriminated between tasks. The interview data provided insight as to why they hold such preferences. Older adults reported benefits of robot assistance (e.g., the robot compensating for limitations, saving them time and effort, completing undesirable tasks, and performing tasks at a high level of performance). Participants also reported concerns such as the robot damaging the environment, being unreliable at or incapable of doing a task, doing tasks the older adult would rather do, or taking up too much space/storage. These data, along with specific comments from participant interviews, provide the basis for preliminary recommendations for designing mobile manipulator robots to support aging in place.
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ISBN:145031063X
9781450310635
ISSN:2167-2121
DOI:10.1145/2157689.2157806