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What People with Dementia Want: Designing MARIO an Acceptable Robot Companion

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Companion robots designed for PWD need to be customised to meet individual needs if they are to be perceived as useful and acceptable. This paper presents a brief review of the literature on the usefulness of robots for people with dementia; it also includes an overview of the ethical considerations that inform robot development and a description of a qualitative study which describes how people with dementia and other key stakeholders helped to design and shape this robot. An overview of the unique aspect of the MARIO robot and the scientific impact of this work is also presented.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Horizons 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014–2020) under grant agreement 643808 Project MARIO “Managing active and healthy aging with use of caring service robots”.

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  1. School of Nursing & Midwifery National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Dympna Casey, Heike Felzmann, Kathy Murphy & Sally Whelan

  2. RU Robots, Manchester, M28 1WF, UK

    Geoff Pegman

  3. CARETTA NET, Ethn. Antistaseos 32, Ampelokipi, Thessaloniki, 56334, Greece

    Christos Kouroupetroglou

  4. University of Passau, Innstraße 41, 94032, Passau, Germany

    Adamantios Koumpis

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Casey, D. et al. (2016). What People with Dementia Want: Designing MARIO an Acceptable Robot Companion. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_44

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