Open AccessSocial Effects of Robot Therapy in a Care House<br/>– Change of Social Network of the Residents for One Year –
Author(s) -
Kazuyoshi Wada,
Takanori Shibata
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of advanced computational intelligence and intelligent informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1343-0130
pISSN - 1883-8014
DOI - 10.20965/jaciii.2009.p0386
Subject(s) - robot , social robot , psychology , sort , computer science , applied psychology , artificial intelligence , simulation , mobile robot , robot control , database
Robot therapy in the form of two seal robots was conducted for a year at a care house in Japan. Residents and robots interacted over 9 hours a day. To determine psychological and social robot influence, individual residents were interviewed using the “free pile sort” method and their social interaction was analyzed. After robot use was discontinued, follow-up showed that robots encouraged residents to communicate with each other and strengthen their individual ties during the year of robot use.
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