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Effectiveness of Social Behaviors for Autonomous Wheelchair Robot to Support Elderly People in Japan.
- Source :
- PLoS ONE; May2015, Vol. 10 Issue 5, p1-15, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AUTONOMOUS robots
OLDER people
CAREGIVERS
QUESTIONNAIRES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102970320
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128031