Prepare a 400 to 500 word reflection (about 1 page single spaced) plus appropriate references. The reflection will link your experience designing and building a robot to selected research and best practices that examine human’s experience of robots at different points in the lifespan.
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Background Reading for Designing Across the LifespanListed here are articles that you can read to help you complete your discussion of robot design constraints to accommodate humans over the lifespan. You are welcome to find other articles. One good way to find articles is to look in the reference list of an article and see if there are other articles you might like to read. If you need help using library resources, contact the Engineering Librarian Mengxiong Liu or any librarian at the reference desk in the library.
Issues of the Elderly
Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly Meng, Q., & Lee, M.H. (2006). Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 20(2), 171-186. Abstract: The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This demographic shift will create a huge increase in demand for domestic and health-care services and this in turn has the potential to create a major new market for domestic service robots that can assist with the care and support of the elderly and infirm. However, unlike industrial robots, assistive service robots are still under-developed and are not widely deployed. We analyse the nature of the requirements for assistive robotics for the elderly and argue that traditional ‘industrial’ robot engineering approaches are either inappropriate or inadequate to tackle the key problem areas, which we identify as: safety, adaptivity, long-term autonomy of operation, user-friendliness and low costs. A key issue is user acceptability and this paper explores how seemingly difficult and possibly conflicting design requirements can be integrated in a human-centred approach. We develop an approach to the design of autonomous assistive robots for the home, with emphasis on the user and the tasks to be performed. We then introduce some design principles and apply these to a simplified case study. The case study was implemented as a concrete illustration, and a series of experiments are reported.
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Robot Nation: Robots and the Declining Japanese Population: Mori, K., & Scearce, C. (2010) Robot Nation: Robots and the Declining Japanese Population. ProQuest Discovery Guides. Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/robots/review.pdfLinks to an external site. (note for students: this has a good overview of some of the issues driving the development of robots for the elderly and some of the challenges)
But obviously not for me: robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users Neven, L. (2010). But obviously not for me: robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32(2), 335-347. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01218.xLinks to an external site.
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Japan pushing for low-cost nursing home robots to care for elderly: Hofilena, John. (2013, April 29). Japan pushing for low-cost nursing home robots to care for elderly. Japan Daily Press. Retrieved from http://japandailypress.com/japan-pushing-for-low-cost-nursing-home-robots-to-care-for-elderly-2927943Links to an external site.
Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged Wada, K., Shibata, T., Saito, T., Sakamoto, K., & Tanie, K. (2005). Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2785-2790. doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570535 (locate through IEEE database in SJSU library) Abstract: A long-term experiment of robot assisted activity for elderly people has been conducted at a health service facility for the aged since Aug. 2003. Three therapeutic seal robots, Paro, were introduced there. This paper describes the results of the experiment for one year. Face scales that consist of illustrations of person's faces were used to evaluate person's moods. In addition, Geriatric Depression Scales were used to measure person's depression by questionnaires. As the results, feelings of the elderly people were improved by interaction with the seal robots.
The Influence of Social Presence on Acceptance of a Companion Robot by Older People Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Evers, V. & Wielinga, B.(2008).The Influence of Social Presence on Acceptance of a Companion Robot by Older People. J Physical Agents, 2(2), 33-40. Abstract: If robotic companions are to be used in the near future by aging adults, they have to be accepted by them. In the process of developing a methodology to measure, predict and explain acceptance of robotic companions, we researched the influence of social abilities, social presence and perceived enjoyment. After an experiment (n=30) that included collecting usage data and a second experiment (n=40) with a robot in a more and less sociable condition we were able to confirm the relevance of these concepts. Results suggest that social abilities contribute to the sense of social presence when interacting with a robotic companion and this leads, through higher enjoyment to a higher acceptance score.
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Issues of Children
Using Lego robots to estimate cognitive ability in children who have severe physical disabilities Cook, A. M., Adams, K., Volden, J., Harbottle, N. & Harbottle, C. (2011). Using Lego robots to estimate cognitive ability in children who have severe physical disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 6(4):338-46. doi: 10.3109/17483107.2010.534231.
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Trends and considerations in robot-assisted autism therapy Ricks, D.J., & Colton, M.B. (2010). Trends and considerations in robot-assisted autism therapy. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 4354-4359. doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509327
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Exploring the design space of robots: Children’s perspectives
Woods, S. (2006). Exploring the design space of robots: Children’s perspectives. Interacting with Computers, 18, 1390–1418.
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Design Principles for Children’s Technology Chiasson, S. & Gutwin, C. (2005). Design Principles for Children’s Technology (HCI-TR-2005-02). Technical Report Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan.
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Ten design lessons from the literature on child development and children's use of technology Gelderblom, H., & Kotze, P. (2008). Ten design lessons from the literature on child development and children's use of technology. IDC-2009 Proc. 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Como, Italy.
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Design Issues - General
Effects of communication style and culture on ability to accept recommendations from robots Rau, P. L. P., Li, Y., & Li, D. (2009). Effects of communication style and culture on ability to accept recommendations from robots. Computers in Human Behavior; 25(2), p. 587-595.
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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of communication styles and culture on people’s accepting recommendations from robots. The goal was to provide insight for culturally adaptive robot design. The independent variables were communication style (i.e. implicit or explicit), the participants’ cultural background (i.e. Chinese or German), and the robot’s language (i.e. native language and English for Chinese and German subjects). A laboratory experiment was conducted with 16 Chinese and 16 German college students. Basic descriptive statistics and t-test are used for biographical information analysis; reliability test is used for questionnaire; MANOVA and non-parametric test are used for testing the hypotheses. The results showed that the Chinese participants preferred an implicit communication style than German participants. Chinese participants evaluated the robots as being more likable, trustworthy, and credible, and were more likely to accept the implicit recommendations. The German participants evaluated the robots as being less likable, trustworthy, and credible, and were less inclined to accept implicit recommendations.
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The Sociable Robot Slomski, A. (2009). The sociable robot. Protomag.com. Retrieved from http://protomag.com/assets/the-sociable-robot?page=1Links to an external site.
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Age differences and images of robots: Social survey in Japan. Nomura, T., Kanda, T., Suzuki, T. & Kato, K. (2009). Age differences and images of robots: Social survey in Japan. Interaction Studies 10(3), pp. 374-391.
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Requirements for artificial companions: It’s harder than you think Sloman, A. 2010. Requirements for artificial companions: It’s harder than you think. In Close engagements with artificial companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, ed. Y. Wilks, pp.179–200.Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Retrieved from http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/sloman-oii-2009.pdfLinks to an external site.