The ENRICHME project: Lessons learnt from a first interaction with the elderly

Roxana Agrigoroaie, François Ferland, Adriana Tapus

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Abstract

The main purpose of the ENRICHME European project is to develop a socially assistive robot that can help the elderly, adapt to their needs, and has a natural behavior. In this paper, we present some of the lessons learnt from the first interaction between the robot and two elderly people from one partner care facility (LACE Housing Ltd, UK). The robot interacted with the two participants for almost one hour. A tremendous amount of sensory data was recorded from the multi-sensory system (i.e., audio data, RGB-D data, thermal images, and the data from the skeleton tracker) for better understanding the interaction, the needs, the reactions of the users, and the context. This data was processed offline. Before the interaction between the two elderly residents and the robot, a demo was shown to all the residents of the facility. The reactions of the residents were positive and they found the robot useful. The first lessons learnt from this interaction between Kompaï robot and the elderly are reported.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Robotics - 8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Proceedings
EditorsArvin Agah, Miguel A. Salichs, Hongsheng He, John-John Cabibihan, Ayanna M. Howard
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages735-745
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319474366
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: 1 Nov 20163 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9979 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period1/11/163/11/16

Keywords

  • Elderly
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Social robots

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