LOVOT ROBOT AS COMPANIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS IN LONG-TERM CARE
Lillian Hung, Hiro Ito, Joey Wong · 2023
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Lillian Hung, Hiro Ito, and Joey Wong study a social robot as a companion for older adults in Canadian care homes in a 2023 paper. The robot, LOVOT, is a small AI-driven companion from Japan built to invite touch and affection. The study is part of a wider three-country project that also ran in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The Canadian arm involved twenty older residents, forty care staff, and ten leaders. Residents met the robot in four weekly sessions. Surveys before and after measured how they felt about it, and talks with residents plus group talks with staff explored the experience in depth. The team joined counted answers with themes from the talks. The work asks whether a robot pet can ease loneliness in long-term care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lillian Hung, Hiro Ito, Joey Wong |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |