Title
Pro-active positioning of a social robot intervening upon behavioral disturbances of persons with dementia in a smart nursing home
Abstract
Behavioral disturbances of persons with dementia residing in a nursing home impose a significant burden on other residents and on the care staff. A social robot can provide an adequate technological support tool for the caregivers by approaching a resident that exhibits a behavioral disturbance. In this paper, we focus on how to position the robot in the nursing home, taking into account the profile and location of the residents. We minimize the time between the detection of a behavioral disturbance and the robot having arrived near the resident and starting an interaction scenario. Our algorithm is evaluated using realistic data that was collected during 3 months in two Belgian nursing homes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.03.002
Cognitive Systems Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Personalized care,Smart environments,Internet-of-Robotic-Things,Social robotics
Social robot,Smart environment,Nursing,Psychology,Robot,Dementia
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
57
1389-0417
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johannes Nauta100.68
Christof Mahieu241.78
Christophe Michiels300.34
Femke Ongenae414139.73
Femke De Backere53610.55
Filip De Turck62770297.38
Yara Khaluf7428.79
Pieter Simoens851147.30