Embodying care in Matilda: an affective communication robot for the elderly in Australia

Authors:
Rajiv Khosla;Mei-Tai Chu;Reza Kachouie;Keiji Yamada;Tomoharu Yamaguchi
Affiliations:
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;NEC Corporation, Nara, Japan;NEC Corporation, Nara, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Year:
2012

Citing 6
Cited 0

Affective computing

Affective computing
Developing multimodal intelligent affective interfaces for tele-home health care

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Application of affective computing in human—Computer interaction
Care-O-bot II—Development of a Next Generation Robotic Home Assistant

Autonomous Robots
A robotic weight loss coach

AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Living With Seal Robots—Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Influences on the Elderly at a Care House

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Ageing population is at the center of the looming health care crisis in most parts of developed and developing world. Australia like most of the western world is bracing up for the looming ageing population crisis, spiraling health care costs and expected serious shortage of health care workers. Assistive Service robots and companion robots are being seen as one of the ways for supporting aged care facilities to meet this challenge and improve the quality of care of the elderly including mental and physical health outcomes, as well as support the health care workers in personalizing care. In this paper the authors report on design and first ever field trial of Matilda, a human like assistive communication (service and companion) robot in appearance and attributes (e.g., voice, expressions, gestures, emotions) in nursing homes in Australia. The work demonstrates Matilda's ability to break intergeneration technology barriers with elderly, engage elderly in group and one to one activities for improving personalization of care and wellbeing.