Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: As the world aging population is increasing, the problem of nurse shortage has also become prominent worldwide. While the lack of enough health care provider causes many health-related problems: aggravate occupational stress and burnout, which are also put patients at risk. Technology development could bring new solutions to this problem, for instance, the robots have a potential ability to play a role in the health care area. Robots have been accepted worldwide as assistants in daily life, converse-ly, the public opinion is against that the robots could be used as assistants in children and elderly care. It is meaningful to make it clear why people think like this. The aim of this thesis is to find out factors that influence the attitude of the elderly towards human assistive robot. \nThe purpose of this thesis’s result can lead to a better understanding of the elderly therefore helps the designer to improve the quality of application according to real needs/feedback. At the same time facilitates health care providers’ understanding the meaning of using robot, in the future health care providers could give their patients or customers enough instructions and explanations, assisting elderly understand robot and new technology in a better way. \nDescriptive literature review was conducted as research method and content analysis was used to analyze collected data. Elderly’s attitude yielded into 3 categories, name-ly, changed to positive, changed to negative and keep neutral. Factors influenced the elderly’s acceptance yielded into 2 categories: related to robot and related to elderly. Three sub-categories under “related to robot” were yielded into: appearance, robot function design, human-robot interact mode. Three sub-categories under “related to elderly” were yielded into: personal background, concerns, and misunderstanding, perceived robot mind. In conclusion, this literature review showed diverse, adequate pre-contact instruction and sufficient technique support, together with robot designed in a user-friendly way were the key points to succeed. In the future, government and the related departments still need to perfect laws to protect privacy and to solve finan-cial concerns of end-user, meanwhile discover deeply how health care providers’ opinions towards assistive robot.
Source: Theseus (Ammattikorkeakoulujen)
Author: Annuo Pei
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2992521171