ROBADOM: The Impact of a Domestic Robot on Psychological and Cognitive State of the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Ya-Huei Wu (1) , Mohamed Chetouani (2) , Victoria Cristancho-Lacroix (1) , Jade Le Maître (2) , Céline Jost (3) , Brigitte Le Pevedic (4) , Dominique Duhaut (3) , Consuelo Granata (5) , Anne-Sophie Rigaud (1)

1 AP-HP - Hôpital Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu [Paris]
2 ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
3 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient
4 RIMH
5 Chercheur indépendant

The ROBADOM project aims at conceiving an assistive robot capable of expressing some basic emotions and language in order to support the elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), living alone at home. In order to ensure the appropriateness of the design of this kind of robot, technical solutions as well as social, psychological and ethical issues of robot use in the elder care are investigated. This paper presents the system design and some preliminary results from our multi-disciplinary studies.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Ya-Huei Wu, Mohamed Chetouani, Victoria Cristancho-Lacroix, Jade Le Maître, Céline Jost, et al.. ROBADOM: The Impact of a Domestic Robot on Psychological and Cognitive State of the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment. 5th CRI (Companion Robotics Institute) Workshop AAL User-Centric Companion Robotics Experimentoria, Supporting Socio-ethically Intelligent Assistive Technologies Adoption, Mar 2011, France. ⟨hal-00661797⟩