Abstract
It has been shown that the development of social robots for the elder care sector is primarily technology driven and relying on stereotypes about old people. We are focusing instead on the actual social practices that will be targeted by social robots. We provide details of this interdisciplinary approach and highlight its applicability and usefulness with field examples from an elder care home. These examples include ethnographic field studies as well as workshops with staff and residents. The goal is to identify and agree with both groups on social practices, where the use of a social robot might be beneficial. The paper ends with a case study of a robot, which frees staff from repetitive and time consuming tasks while at the same time allowing residents to reclaim some independence.
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We would like to thank all residents and staff members at Løgstør Rødekorshjemmet that participated in the case study described in this paper.
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Rehm, M., Krummheuer, A.L., Rodil, K., Nguyen, M., Thorlacius, B. (2016). From Social Practices to Social Robots – User-Driven Robot Development in Elder Care. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_68
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