When a notification at the right time is not enough: the reminding process for socially assistive robots in institutional care

• DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1369438
• Publication Date: 2024-05-01T04:35:43Z
• Authors: Matthias Rehm; Antonia L. Krummh...
• Keywords: Social robot

Reminding is often identified as a central function of socially assistive robots in the healthcare sector. The robotic reminders are supposed to help people with memory impairments remember take their medicine, drink and eat, or attend appointments. Such standalone reminding technologies can, however, be too demanding for injuries. In co-creation process, we developed an individual reminder robot together person traumatic brain injury her care personnel. During this learned that while current research describe prototypical task robots, there no clear definition what constitutes nor it based on complex sequences interactions evolve over time space, across different actions, actors technologies. Based our data from process first deployment, argue shift towards sequential distributed character reminding. Understanding rehabilitative tools impairment, they need reconsidered interconnected elements institutional practices instead isolated events remindee.