Social robots helping people with dementia: Assessing efficacy of social robots in the nursing home environment

This paper explores the challenges of testing the efficacy of social robots in the nursing home environment. The findings of two projects exploring the use of PARO and Giraff (a telepresence robot) are outlined. The challenges experienced by the researchers when undertaking a randomized controlled t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moyle, W., Jones, C., Cooke, M., O'Dwyer, S., Sung, Billy, Drummond, S.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53663