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The psychosocial effects of a companion robot: a randomized controlled trial.
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Paro is a positive addition to this environment and has benefits for older people in nursing home care and may be able to address some of the unmet needs of older people that a resident animal may not, particularly relating to loneliness.About:
This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 384 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Loneliness & Paro.read more
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The paro robot seal as a social mediator for healthy users
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined social mediation effects in a controlled laboratory setting, where 114 unacquainted female volunteers were put in pairs and randomised to interact together with an active Paro, an inactive Paro or a dinosaur toy robot.
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The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression on Responses to a Digital Human during a Self-Disclosure Conversation: a Computational Analysis of User Language.
TL;DR: It is suggested the presence of a face and emotion in the voice may improve emotional responses to digital humans and provide evidence for aspects of the theoretical framework of embodied agent-patient communication.
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Lounging with robots--social spaces of residents in care: A comparison trial.
Kathryn Peri,Ngaire Kerse,Elizabeth Broadbent,Chandimal Jayawardena,Tony Kuo,Chandan Datta,Rebecca Q. Stafford,Bruce A. MacDonald +7 more
TL;DR: To investigate whether robots could reduce resident sleeping and stimulate activity in the lounges of an older persons' care facility, a large number of robots were used in the study.
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A New Model to Enhance Robot-Patient Communication: Applying Insights from the Medical World
TL;DR: A new model of robot-patient communication is proposed and a research agenda is put forward for advancing knowledge of how robots can communicate effectively with patients to influence health outcomes.
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Artificial emotions: robots caring for the elderly.
TL;DR: It is shown that emotional engagement of humans by robots is already possible and found that elderly persons, either hospitalized or living in the rest home setting, had decreases in loneliness as a result of interacting with Paro, a robot that looks like a baby Harp seal.
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