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Author(s): Kolling, Thorsten; Haberstroh, Julia; Kaspar, Roman; Pantel, Johannes; Oswald, Frank; Knopf, Monika
Title: Evidence and deployment-based research into care for the elderly using emotional robots. Psychological, methodological and cross-cultural facets
In: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 26 (2013) 2, S. 83-88
DOI: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000084
URL: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1024/1662-9647/a000084
Publication Type: 3a. Beiträge in begutachteten Zeitschriften; Beitrag in Sonderheft
Language: Englisch
Keywords: Altenpflege; Altern; Emotion; Empirische Forschung; Forschungsstand; Gerontologie; Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation; Roboter; Senior; Therapie
Abstract: Global aging, particularly in Japan and Europe, an associated shortage of qualified healthcare personnel, and a general preference for living at home, have all sparked an interest in the possibilities offered by robot therapy in improving quality of life. To date, however, both evidence-based research and psychological theory building on whether, and if so how and why, robots can influence the life of the elderly are rather sparse and scattered across many scientific disciplines and countries. The present paper argues in favor of a psychological, cross-cultural framework for evidence-based analyses of emotional robots. Against the background of this framework, we present building blocks for an evidence-based approach to the assessment of emotional robots and discuss interactions between evidence- and deployment-based research.
DIPF-Departments: Bildungsqualität und Evaluation