BWCCA 2017: Advances on Broad-Band Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications pp 197-205 | Cite as
Development of an Adult Care System Based on Interactions with a Communication Robot
Abstract
In recent years, the population of the elderly in developed countries tends to increase. In this situation, caring and watching the elderly using IoT technology is an important research subject. In this paper, we focus attention on the increasing indoor heat stroke morbidity of the elderly and propose an effective method for alerting them if any risky conditions are detected by sensing the indoor environment. Reliably conveying the possible danger of heat stroke to the elderly with low psychological burden is a crucial issue. Therefore, we propose to use a communication robot as a messenger for alerting the elderly to be careful with heat stroke. The robot is a useful agent for naturally scenting and warning the danger to the elderly in daily dialogue. We develop a prototype system based on the proposed method and verify whether the alert notification using the robot is effective through a preliminary experiment.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K00277.
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