Living With Seal Robots—Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Influences on the Elderly at a Care House

By Kazuyoshi Wada, Takanori Shibata. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2007

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Population Ageing and Socially Assistive Robots for Elderly Persons: The Importance of Sociodemographic Factors for User Acceptance (2012, background): “The most prominent example is Paro, a Japanese robot in the form of a seal [19–22].”
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2014, unknown): “Robotic devices aimed at ‘‘psychological enrichment’’ usually take the form of an animal, doll, or pet, such as Paro the robotic seal [12,19,21,23], the Haptic Creature [17,20,26,42], CHARLIE [24], or Huggable the teddy bear [16,18].”
A review of verbal and non-verbal human-robot interactive communication (2014, background): “…manufacturing robots; lab or household robotic assistants [30], [31], [32], [33]; assistive robotics and companions for special groups of people [34]; persuasive robotics (for example, [35]); robotic receptionists [36], robotic educational assistants, robotic wheelchairs [37], companion robots…”
Your Robot Therapist Will See You Now: Ethical Implications of Embodied Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy (2018, background): “Several studies have examined the role of such robots in reducing stress, loneliness, and agitation and in improving mood and social connections [30,31].”
Polymer-based flexible capacitive sensor for three-axial force measurements (2012, background): “A therapeutic seal-robot calms patients of hospitals and nursing homes [4].”
Socially Assistive Robots in Elderly Care: A Mixed-Method Systematic Literature Review (2014, background): “Paro lets researchers study physical interaction between humans and robots (Shibata, 2004; Wada & Shibata, 2007a).”
Assistive social robots in elderly care: a review (2009, background): “Notable exceptions to this are recent studies by Kidd et al.42 and Wada and Shibata14 where participants could play with the robot without intervention by the researchers.”
Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey (2013, methodology): “An important aspect in the studies presented here is that animal-inspired robots were used in two of them, namely in the work of Wada and Shibata [76] and François et al.”
Service robot implementation: a theoretical framework and research agenda (2019, background): “Such interactions can enhance the sense of connection between, for example, an elderly patient and a caregiving robot designed to look like a cat that also tracks the person ’ s movement (e.g. to prevent falls) and o ﬀ ers reminders (e.g. to take medication) (Wada & Shibata, 2007).”