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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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Effect of State Loneliness on Robot Anthropomorphism: Potential Edge of Social Robots Compared to Common Nonhumans
Sijia Li,Feng Yu,Kaiping Peng +2 more
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Attitudes towards emergent autonomous robots in Austria and Germany
Timo Gnambs,Timo Gnambs +1 more
TL;DR: Examination of public opinion toward emergent robotic systems in Austria and Germany showed that, in general, attitudes seemed rather positive in both countries, however, for Austria a rather ambivalent picture emerged.
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Potenziale und Herausforderungen von sozialen Robotern für Beziehungen älterer Menschen: eine Bestandsaufnahme mittels „rapid review“
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematische Literatursuche ergab 433 unikale Treffer, aus denen n = 11 articles in die Analysen eingingen, orientieren sich die eingeschlossenen Artikel grostenteils am Setting Pflege, der die potenzialausschopfende Anwendung sozialer Roboter fur altere Menschen ermoglicht.
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Social HRI for People with Dementia: One Size Fits All?
Giulia Perugia,Marta Díaz Boladeras,Emilia I. Barakova,Andreu Català Mallofré,Matthias Rauterberg +4 more
TL;DR: Results show that a significant increase in pleasure (positive affect) is present in the robot condition when participants are considered in their totality, but once they are grouped based on the presence of motivational and emotional disorders, the pleasure experienced in the robots condition is significantly lower in the group with such disorders.
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Exploring the Design Space of Therapeutic Robot Companions for Children
TL;DR: In this article, a prototype therapeutic robot, TACO, was developed using a user-centered approach and evaluated over the course of several structured play sessions, using short interviews with children as well as a modified version of the SOFIT testing procedure.
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