Socially assistive robots’ deployment in healthcare settings: a global perspective
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- dc.contributor.author Aymerich Franch, Laura
- dc.contributor.author Ferrer, Iliana
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-02-06T07:54:48Z
- dc.date.available 2025-02-06T07:54:48Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract One of the major areas where social robots are finding their place in society is for healthcare-related applications. Yet, very little research has mapped the deployment of socially assistive robots (SARs) in real settings. Using a documentary research method, we traced back 279 experiences of SARs deployments in hospitals, elderly care centers, occupational health centers, private homes, and educational institutions worldwide that involved 52 different robot models. We retrieved, analyzed, and classified the functions that SARs develop in these experiences, the areas in which they are deployed, the principal manufacturers, and the robot models that are being adopted. The functions we identified for SARs are entertainment, companionship, telepresence, edutainment, providing general and personalized information or advice, monitoring, promotion of physical exercise and rehabilitation, testing and pre-diagnosis, delivering supplies, patient registration, giving location indications, patient simulator, protective measure enforcement, medication and well-being adherence, translating and having conversations in multiple languages, psychological therapy, patrolling, interacting with digital devices, and disinfection. Our work provides an in-depth picture of the current state of the art of SARs’ deployment in real scenarios for healthcare-related applications and contributes to understanding better the role of these machines in the healthcare sector.
- dc.description.sponsorship This project has received funding from the Ramón y Cajal Fellowship Program (Ref.RYC-2016-19770), funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, and the European Social Fund (ESF), which was granted to Dr. Laura Aymerich-Franch.
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- dc.identifier.citation Aymerich-Franch L, Ferrer I. Socially assistive robots’ deployment in healthcare settings: a global perspective. Int J HR. 2023 Feb;20(1):2350002. DOI: 10.1142/S0219843623500020
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219843623500020
- dc.identifier.issn 0219-8436
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69502
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher World Scientific Publishing
- dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. 2023 Feb;20(1):2350002.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/RYC-2016-19770
- dc.rights Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 20, 1, 2023, 2350002-1-25 1142/S0219843623500020 © copyright World Scientific Publishing Company https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijhr
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.subject.keyword Socially assistive robots
- dc.subject.keyword Human-robot interaction
- dc.subject.keyword Healthcare
- dc.subject.keyword Robot deployment
- dc.subject.keyword Documentary research
- dc.title Socially assistive robots’ deployment in healthcare settings: a global perspective
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion