Co-Designing iCST with Social Robots for Long-Term in-Home Deployment for Persons with Dementia

EasyChair Preprint 12573

Abstract

PwDs experience disorientation which significantly limits their quality of life such that they forget to perform essential daily tasks and activities. The use of reminder applications or tools can also be rendered ineffective due to the lack of time synchronisation such that the intended purpose of the reminders is lost or misunderstood. Hence, non-pharmacological approaches such as cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) were studied as viable means for improving the cognition and quality of life of persons living with dementia to combat the effects of disorientation. However, such approaches have been limited in terms of delivery while robots for therapy have mostly been explored within lab settings with healthy participants for groups of PwDs. Yet, there is the need for individual CST (iCST) with a focus on long-term in-home deployment. This work adopts an iterative design process involving consultations with key stakeholders including PwDs to design a system that can detect disorientation, provide a suitable intervention and deliver iCST sessions to aid cognition.

Keyphrases: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, Robots for dementia, in-home deployment, participatory design, therapy robots

@booklet{EasyChair:12573,
  author    = {Emmanuel Akinrintoyo and Nicole Salomons},
  title     = {Co-Designing iCST with Social Robots for Long-Term in-Home Deployment for Persons with Dementia},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 12573},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}