Pro-active positioning of a social robot intervening upon behavioral disturbances of persons with dementia in a smart nursing home

Johannes Nauta; Christof Mahieu; Christophe Michiels; Femke Ongenae; Femke De Backere; Filip De Turck; Yara Khaluf; Pieter Simoens

doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.03.002

Pro-active positioning of a social robot intervening upon behavioral disturbances of persons with dementia in a smart nursing home

Johannes Nauta, Christof Mahieu, Christophe Michiels, Femke Ongenae, Femke De Backere, Filip De Turck, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens^*

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Abstract

Behavioral disturbances of persons with dementia residing in a nursing home impose a significant burden on other residents and on the care staff. A social robot can provide an adequate technological support tool for the caregivers by approaching a resident that exhibits a behavioral disturbance. In this paper, we focus on how to position the robot in the nursing home, taking into account the profile and location of the residents. We minimize the time between the detection of a behavioral disturbance and the robot having arrived near the resident and starting an interaction scenario. Our algorithm is evaluated using realistic data that was collected during 3 months in two Belgian nursing homes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	160-174
Number of pages	15
Journal	Cognitive Systems Research
Volume	57
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.03.002
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Internet-of-Robotic-Things
Personalized care
Smart environments
Social robotics

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