The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec)
Online ISSN : 2424-3124
2010
Session ID : 1A1-C29
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1A1-C29 Study on Methodology of Robot Therapy for people in Welfare Facilities : The Second Report: Development of Handbook for Robot Therapy
Kazuyoshi WadaYousuke IkedaKaoru InoueReona Uehara
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Robot therapy is expected to have psychological, physiological and social effects as well as animal therapy. Especially, therapeutic seal robot, Paro is used in various facilities for elderly and spreading in the world. However, the caregivers used Paro freely, and the way of using Paro is different among them. Therefore, the effects are influenced by their skills. The handbook which shows effective ways to use Paro has been needed. In this paper, the handbook which shows effective ways of robot therapy was developed.
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© 2010 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
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