Older Adults Living With Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities

Social robots have been used to investigate human-to-robot engagement-but connection between one person and another is the real key for human emotional wellness. This work explores the role and impact of a social robot in facilitating human-to-human engagement in an assisted-living community. Older...

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Published in:IEEE robotics & automation magazine 2019-06, Vol.26 (2), p.59-70
Main Authors: Ostrowski, Anastasia K., DiPaola, Daniella, Partridge, Erin, Park, Hae Won, Breazeal, Cynthia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Assistive technology
Human-robot interaction
Interviews
Older people
Robots
Senior citizens
Service robots
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Summary:Social robots have been used to investigate human-to-robot engagement-but connection between one person and another is the real key for human emotional wellness. This work explores the role and impact of a social robot in facilitating human-to-human engagement in an assisted-living community. Older adults, in particular, are a population in need of sufficient social connectedness to promote their well-being. While several studies have sought to investigate how social robots can help to improve older adults? quality of life, not many have studied their long-term impact on community-level engagement.
ISSN:1070-9932
1558-223X
DOI:10.1109/MRA.2019.2905234