Effectiveness of Social Behaviors for Autonomous Wheelchair Robot to Support Elderly People in Japan

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作者
Shiomi, Masahiro [1 ]
Iio, Takamasa [1 ]
Kamei, Koji [1 ]
Sharma, Chandraprakash [1 ]
Hagita, Norihiro [1 ]
机构
[1] ATR, Intelligent Robot & Commun Labs, Kyoto, Japan
来源
PLOS ONE | 2015年 / 10卷 / 05期
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10.1371/journal.pone.0128031
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
We developed a wheelchair robot to support the movement of elderly people and specifically implemented two functions to enhance their intention to use it: speaking behavior to convey place/location related information and speed adjustment based on individual preferences. Our study examines how the evaluations of our wheelchair robot differ when compared with human caregivers and a conventional autonomous wheelchair without the two proposed functions in a moving support context. 28 senior citizens participated in the experiment to evaluate three different conditions. Our measurements consisted of questionnaire items and the coding of free-style interview results. Our experimental results revealed that elderly people evaluated our wheelchair robot higher than the wheelchair without the two functions and the human caregivers for some items.
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