Interaction Expands Function: Social Shaping of the Therapeutic Robot PARO in a Nursing Home

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn 2015-March, Issue , 2015, Pages 343-350

  Chang, Wan Ling ^a   Sabanovic, Selma ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

human robot interaction; older adults; qualitative study; social shaping of technology; socially assistive robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; HOSPITALS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NURSING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI); INTERACTION DESIGN; OLDER ADULTS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL SHAPING; SOCIAL SHAPING OF TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOTS; THERAPEUTIC ROBOTS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84943555812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21672148     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2696454.2696472     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Shibata, T. and Wada, K. 2011. Robot therapy: A new approach for mental healthcare of the elderly-A minireview. Gerontology. 57, 4, 378-386.
2. Kawaguchi, Y., Wada, K., Okamoto, M., Tsujii, T., Shibata, T. and Sakatani, K. 2012. Investigation of brain activity after interaction with seal robot measured by fNIRS. Proc. of ROMAN 2012, 571-576.
3. Wada, K., Shibata, T., Saito, T., Sakamoto, K. and Tanie, K. 2005. Psychological and social effects of one year robot assisted activity on elderly people at a health service facility for the aged. Proc. of ICRA 2005, 2785-2790.
4. Wada, K., Shibata, T., Saito, T. and Tanie, K. 2004. Effects of robot-Assisted activity for elderly people and nurses at a day service center. Proc. of IROS 2004, 1780-1788.
5. Wada, K., Ikeda, Y., Inoue, K. and Uehara, R. 2010. Development and preliminary evaluation of a caregiver's manual for robot therapy using the therapeutic seal robot Paro. Proc. of RO-MAN 2010, 533-538
6. Forlizzi, J. and DiSalvo, C. 2006. Service robots in the domestic environment: a study of the roomba vacuum in the home. Proc. of HRI'06, 258-265.
7. Mutlu, B. and Forlizzi, J. 2008. Robots in organizations: The role of workflow, social, and environmental factors in human-robot interaction. Proc. of HRI'08, 287-294.
8. ͈abanovi, S., Michalowski, M.P. and Simmons, R. 2006. Robots in the wild: Observing human-robot social interaction outside the lab. Proc. AMC 2006, 596-601.
9. Wada, K. and Shibata, T. 2007. Living with seal robots-Its sociopsychological and physiological influences on the elderly at a care house. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 23, 5, 972-980.
10. ͈abanovi, S. 2010. Robots in society, society in robots: Mutual shaping of society and technology as a framework for social robot design. International Journal of Social Robotics. 2, 4, 439-450.
11. Bijker, W.E., Hughes, T.P., Pinch, T., and Douglas, D.G. 2012. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. MIT Press.
12. Oudshoorn, N. and Pinch, T. 2003. How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology. MIT Press.
13. MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. 1999. The Social Shaping of Technology. Open University Press.
14. Ala?, M., Movellan, J. and Tanaka, F. 2011. When a robot is social: Spatial arrangements and multimodal semiotic engagement in the practice of social robotics. Social Studies of Science. 41, 6, 893-926.
15. Siino, R.M. and Hinds, P.J. 2005. Robots, gender sensemaking: Sex segregation-Impact on workers making sense of a mobile autonomous robot. Proc. ICRA 2005, 2773-2778.
16. Vertesi, J. 2012. Seeing like a rover: Visualization, embodiment, and interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Social Studies of Science. 42, 3, 393-414.
17. Chang, W.-L., ͈abanovi, S., and Huber, L. 2013. Situated analysis of interactions between cognitively impaired older adults and the therapeutic robot PARO. Proc. of ICSR 2013, 371-380.
18. Chang, W.-L., ͈abanovi, S., and Huber, L. 2014. Observational study of naturalistic interactions with the socially assistive robot PARO in a nursing home. Proc. of RO-MAN 2014, 294-299.
19. Miles, M.B. and Huberman, A.M. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook. Sage.
20. Emerson, R.M., Fretz, R.I., and Shaw, L.L. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press.
21. Turkle, S., Taggart, W., Kidd, C.D. and Dasté, O. 2006. Relational artifacts with children and elders: the complexities of cybercompanionship. Connection Science. 18, 4, 347-361.
22. Broadbent, E., Stafford, R., and MacDonald, B. 2009. Acceptance of healthcare robots for the older population: Review and future directions. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1: 319-330.
23. Lee, M.K., Kiesler, S., Forlizzi, J., and Rybski, P. 2012. Ripple effects of an embedded social agent: A field study of a social robot in the workplace. Proc. of CHI 2012, 695-70