Socially Assistive Robots, Older Adults and Research Ethics: The Case for Case-Based Ethics Training

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Battistuzzi ◽  
Chris Papadopoulos ◽  
Tetiana Hill ◽  
Nina Castro ◽  
Barbara Bruno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethics Training ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots ◽  
Case Based

scholarly journals OLDER ADULTS’ VIEWPOINTS ON SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOTS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 730-731
Author(s):  
L Mion ◽  
J Fan ◽  
L Beuscher ◽  
M Dietrich ◽  
P Newhouse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots

scholarly journals Scaffolding Collaborative Case-Based Learning during Research Ethics Training

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anu Tammeleht ◽  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana ◽  
Kairi Koort ◽  
Erika Löfström
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethics Training ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Case Based

scholarly journals Older adults’ perceptions of Socially Assistive Robots

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Camp Camp ◽  
◽  
Martin Lewis ◽  
Kirsty Hunter ◽  
Daniele Magistro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots

scholarly journals Using socially assistive robots for monitoring and preventing frailty among older adults: a study on usability and user experience challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richelle A. C. M. Olde Keizer ◽  
Lex van Velsen ◽  
Mathieu Moncharmont ◽  
Brigitte Riche ◽  
Nadir Ammour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots

scholarly journals Toward Monitoring and Increasing Exercise Adherence in Older Adults by Robotic Intervention: A Proof of Concept Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prathik Gadde ◽  
Hadi Kharrazi ◽  
Himalaya Patel ◽  
Karl F. MacDorman
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Exercise Adherence ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots ◽  
Vision Processing ◽  
Personal Trainer ◽  
Pencil And Paper

Socially assistive robots have the potential to improve the quality of life of older adults by encouraging and guiding their performance of rehabilitation exercises while offering cognitive stimulation and companionship. This study focuses on the early stages of developing and testing an interactive personal trainer robot to monitor and increase exercise adherence in older adults. The robot physically demonstrates exercises for the user to follow and monitors the user's progress using a vision-processing unit that detects face and hand movements. When the user successfully completes a move, the robot gives positive feedback and begins the next repetition. The results of usability testing with 10 participants support the feasibility of this approach. Further extensions are planned to evaluate a complete exercise program for improving older adults' physical range of motion in a controlled experiment with three conditions: a personal trainer robot, a personal trainer on-screen character, and a pencil-and-paper exercise plan.

Ethics of socially assistive robots in aged-care settings: a socio-historical contextualisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Tijs Vandemeulebroucke ◽  
Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé ◽  
Chris Gastmans
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Democratic Spaces ◽  
Historical Contextualisation

Different embodiments of technology permeate all layers of public and private domains in society. In the public domain of aged care, attention is increasingly focused on the use of socially assistive robots (SARs) supporting caregivers and older adults to guarantee that older adults receive care. The introduction of SARs in aged-care contexts is joint by intensive empirical and philosophical research. Although these efforts merit praise, current empirical and philosophical research are still too far separated. Strengthening the connection between these two fields is crucial to have a full understanding of the ethical impact of these technological artefacts. To bridge this gap, we propose a philosophical-ethical framework for SAR use, one that is grounded in the dialogue between empirical-ethical knowledge about and philosophical-ethical reflection on SAR use. We highlight the importance of considering the intuitions of older adults and their caregivers in this framework. Grounding philosophical-ethical reflection in these intuitions opens the ethics of SAR use in aged care to its own socio-historical contextualisation. Referring to the work of Margaret Urban Walker, Joan Tronto and Andrew Feenberg, it is argued that this socio-historical contextualisation of the ethics of SAR use already has strong philosophical underpinnings. Moreover, this contextualisation enables us to formulate a rudimentary decision-making process about SAR use in aged care which rests on three pillars: (1) stakeholders’ intuitions about SAR use as sources of knowledge; (2) interpretative dialogues as democratic spaces to discuss the ethics of SAR use; (3) the concretisation of ethics in SAR use.

Acceptability of Socially Assistive Robots Among Cognitively Intact Older Adults: An Integrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Melissa Kachaturoff ◽  
Kim Shidler ◽  
Adrienne Fasbinder ◽  
Meriam Caboral-Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Socially Assistive Robots ◽  
Cognitively Intact
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