Participatory Design of Socially Assistive Robots for Preventive Patient - Centered Healthcare *
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This paper presents an ongoing project using participatory design methods to develop socially assistive robots (SARs) for older adults diagnosed with depression and cooccurring physical illness. We frame SARs development in the context of preventive patient-centered healthcare, which empowers patients as the primary drivers of health and aims to the delay the onset of disease rather than focusing on treatment. We describe how SARs can be of particular benefit in this new direction in healthcare, and detail our participatory design study with older adults and therapists aimed at developing preventive SARs applications for this population.
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A Robot of My Own: Participatory Design of Socially Assistive Robots for Independently Living Older Adults Diagnosed with Depression
This paper presents an ongoing project using participatory design methods to develop design concepts for socially assistive robots (SARs) with older adults diagnosed with depression and co-occurring physical illness. We frame SARs development in the context of preventive patient-centered healthcare, which empowers patients as the primary drivers of health and aims to delay the onset of disease ...
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