Title
Interacting with Dementia: The MARIO Approach.
Abstract
MARIO is a companion robot that aims to help people with dementia (PWD) to battle isolation and loneliness by enabling them to stay socially active by providing a number of applications focused on hobbies (music, movies, etc), staying engaged with communities (reading headlines, reading local twitter feeds etc.) and staying connected with family and friends (telephoning them, reading their news from twitter, etc.). This paper presents the results from the initial trials of MARIO interacting with PWD involving a limited set of applications. It confirms some of the challenges hypothesized at the outset of the study and provides guidelines for future development work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-38
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Robotics,dementia,loneliness,isolation,acceptability
Conference
242
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
16