The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 26 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The domesticated robot: design guidelines for assisting older adults to age in place
Open accessAbstract
Many older adults wish to remain in their own homes as they age [16]. However, challenges in performing home upkeep tasks threaten an older adult's ability to age in place. Even healthy independently living older adults experience challenges in maintaining their home [13]. Challenges with home tasks can be compensated through technology, such as home robots. However, for home robots to be adopted by older adult users, they must be designed to meet older adults' needs for assistance and the older users must be amenable to robot assistance for those needs. We conducted a needs assessment to (1) assess older adults' openness to assistance from robots; and (2) understand older adults' opinions about using an assistive robot to help around the home. We administered questionnaires and conducted structured group interviews with 21 independently living older adults (ages 65-93). The questionnaire data suggest that older adults prefer robot assistance for cleaning and fetching/organizing tasks overall. However their assistance preferences discriminated between tasks. The interview data provided insight as to why they hold such preferences. Older adults reported benefits of robot assistance (e.g., the robot compensating for limitations, saving them time and effort, completing undesirable tasks, and performing tasks at a high level of performance). Participants also reported concerns such as the robot damaging the environment, being unreliable at or incapable of doing a task, doing tasks the older adult would rather do, or taking up too much space/storage. These data, along with specific comments from participant interviews, provide the basis for preliminary recommendations for designing mobile manipulator robots to support aging in place.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“Specific to older adults, some studies in HCI and HRI indicate older adults' preference for using robots for household purposes more than for companionship [5,13]”
From "Phantom Friend" or "Just a Box with Information": Personification and Ontological Categorization of Smart Speaker-based Voice Assistants by Older Adults (2019) · cites this paper as [5]
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“Most of these studies do not include the actual robot, and they instead rely on video demonstrations [6, 16], storyboard images showing what a robot may do [5], or other images of robots [9].”
From Situated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction with Older Adults (2023) · cites this paper as [6]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Baltes, P. B., & Baltes, M. M. (1990) · Successful Aging · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511665684.003 · Cited by 3,739 · cited 3×
“Successful aging may be conceptualized by the selection, optimization and compensation model (SOC model) [2].”
InfluentialEcology and the aging process.
Lawton, M. P., & Nahemow, L. (1973) · The psychology of adult development and aging. · doi:10.1037/10044-020 · Cited by 2,191 · cited 2×
“Lawton and Nahemow [21] stated that ideally an individual's competency should match the environmental press.”
Czaja, S. J., Charness, N., Fisk, A. D., Hertzog, C., Nair, S. N., Rogers, W. A., & Sharit, J. (2006) · Psychology and Aging · doi:10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.333 · Cited by 2,113 · cited 1×
“Prior to the structured group interview, demographic, health, and technology experience were collected using standardized materials developed by the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) [10].”
Self-citationAcceptance of Healthcare Robots for the Older Population: Review and Future Directions
Broadbent, E., Stafford, R., & MacDonald, B. (2009) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-009-0030-6 · Cited by 887 · cited 1×
“A design aspect to consider is customizability (sometimes referred to as adaptability; [3]).”
Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W. A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., & Sharit, J. (2004) · doi:10.1201/9781420023862 · Cited by 781
Self-citationQuick, S. (2014) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.51-4209 · Cited by 416
Melenhorst, A.-S., Rogers, W. A., & Bouwhuis, D. G. (2006) · Psychology and Aging · doi:10.1037/0882-7974.21.1.190 · Cited by 363 · cited 1×
“More generally, older adults are willing to use home technological assistance, if the perceived benefits of using the technology are clear [22] .”
Self-citationAutominder: an intelligent cognitive orthotic system for people with memory impairment
Pollack, M. E., Brown, L., Colbry, D., McCarthy, C. E., Orosz, C., Peintner, B., Ramakrishnan, S., & Tsamardinos, I. (2003) · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · doi:10.1016/s0921-8890(03)00077-0 · Cited by 359 · cited 1×
“There have been some efforts on developing robots for those with declined health capabilities, such as individuals with motor impairments [8] [19], dementia [28], or needing healthcare assistance [23].”
Conducting Research on Home Environments: Lessons Learned and New Directions
Gitlin, L. N. (2003) · The Gerontologist · doi:10.1093/geront/43.5.628 · Cited by 354 · cited 2×
“Many older adults wish to remain in their own homes as they age [16].”
Robot therapy for elders affected by dementia
Wada, K., Shibata, T., Musha, T., & Kimura, S. (2008) · IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine · doi:10.1109/memb.2008.919496 · Cited by 229 · cited 1×
“There have been some efforts on developing robots for those with declined health capabilities, such as individuals with motor impairments [8] [19], dementia [28], or needing healthcare assistance [23].”
Flagged first, then by citations
1 of the 26 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.
Research works printed but not linked: 5
- AARP. ( 2005 , April). Beyond 50.05 survey . Retrieved February 13, 2009, from http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/il/beyond_50_05_survey.pdf AARP. (2005, April). Beyond 50.05 survey. Retrieved February 13, 2009, from http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/il/beyond_50_05_survey.pdf
- Broadbent E. Tamagawa R. Patience A. Knock B. Kerse N. Day K. and MacDonald B. A. 2011. Attitudes towards health-care robots in a retirement village. Australas. J. Ageing. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741--6612.2011.00551.x. 10.1111/j.1741--6612.2011.00551.x · DOI
- 10.5555/2035304.2035336 · DOI
- Fisk , A. D. , Rogers , W., A. , Charness , N. , Czaja , S. J. , and Sharit , J . 2009 . Designing for Older Adults: Principles and creative Human Factors Approaches ( 2ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W., A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., and Sharit, J. 2009. Designing for Older Adults: Principles and creative Human Factors Approaches (2ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
- Smarr , C.-A. , Fausset , C. B. , and Rogers , W. A . 2011 . Understanding the potential for robot assistance for older adults in the home environment (HFA-TR- 1102). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Tech, School of Psychology, Human Factors and Aging Laboratory . http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39670 Smarr, C.-A., Fausset, C. B., and Rogers, W. A. 2011. Understanding the potential for robot assistance for older adults in the home environment (HFA-TR-1102). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Tech, School of Psychology, Human Factors and Aging Laboratory. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39670
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Hobbit, a care robot supporting independent living at home: First prototype and lessons learned
Fischinger, D., Einramhof, P., Papoutsakis, K. E., Wohlkinger, W., Mayer, P. B., Panek, P. E., Hofmann, S., Körtner, T., Weiss, A., Argyros, A., et al. (2014) · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · doi:10.1016/j.robot.2014.09.029 · Cited by 355
“Our requirement studies as well as the research of others [45] indicate that older adults mainly expect assistance in various household maintaining tasks but also to improve social connectedness.”
BackgroundDomestic robots for older adults: attitudes, preferences, and potential
Smarr, C.-A., Mitzner, T. L., Beer, J. M., Prakash, A., Chen, T. L., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2014) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0220-0 · Cited by 253
“Using different data from this study, Beer and colleagues [40] found that older adults reported five categories of benefits of robotic assistance with chores, and fetching and finding objects around the home: a robot could compensate for their difficulties (i.”
InfluentialSelf-citationPradhan, A., Findlater, L., & Lazar, A. (2019) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3359316 · Cited by 223
“Specific to older adults, some studies in HCI and HRI indicate older adults’ preference for using robots for household purposes more than for companionship [5,13], whereas others have investigated the use of robots for reducing loneliness or to fill certain social needs [15,44,60].”
BackgroundReview: Seven Matters of Concern of Social Robots and Older People
Frennert, S., & Östlund, B. (2014) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0225-8 · Cited by 210
“used questionnaires and structured interviews to understand older people’s openness and opinions on using robotic assistance [38].”
BackgroundAcceptance and Attitudes Toward a Human-like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults
Louie, W.-Y. G., McColl, D., & Nejat, G. (2014) · Assistive Technology · doi:10.1080/10400435.2013.869703 · Cited by 181
“These studies have either consisted of administering questionnaires to older adults to determine which tasks they would accept a robot to do in the home (Beer et al., 2012; Ezer, Fisk, & Rogers, 2009; Smarr et al., 2012) or where they controlled a remote presence robot and then participated in semistructured interview…”
Identifying the Potential for Robotics to Assist Older Adults in Different Living Environments
Mitzner, T. L., Chen, T. L. B., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2013) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0218-7 · Cited by 167
Self-citationOlder Adults’ Preferences for and Acceptance of Robot Assistance for Everyday Living Tasks
Smarr, C.-A., Prakash, A., Beer, J. M., Mitzner, T. L., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2012) · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · doi:10.1177/1071181312561009 · Cited by 126
“A portion of the data from the group discussion is published in Beer et al. (2012).”
BackgroundSelf-citationPrakash, A., & Rogers, W. A. (2014) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-014-0269-4 · Cited by 124
“They can specifically assist older adults with various home-based tasks, so they can continue living independently in their homes [38].”
BackgroundSelf-citationA Code of Ethics for the Human-Robot Interaction ProfessionPreprint
Riek, L. D., & Howard, D. A. (2014) · SSRN Electronic Journal · Cited by 110
Reframing Assistive Robots to Promote Successful Aging
Lee, H. R., & Riek, L. D. (2018) · ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction · doi:10.1145/3203303 · Cited by 106
“For older adults, we provided “home” as a keyword because “aging in place” implies enabling older adults to live in their homes as long as possible [9].”
BackgroundInfluentialRethinking the Design of Robotic Pets for Older Adults
Lazar, A., Thompson, H. J., Piper, A. M., & Demiris, G. (2016) · Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems · doi:10.1145/2901790.2901811 · Cited by 94
Deep Transfer Learning of Pick Points on Fabric for Robot Bed-Making
Seita, D., Jamali, N., Laskey, M., Tanwani, A. K., Berenstein, R., Baskaran, P., Iba, S., Canny, J., & Goldberg, K. Y. (2022) · Springer proceedings in advanced robotics · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95459-8_17 · Cited by 88
Mutual Shaping in the Design of Socially Assistive Robots: A Case Study on Social Robots for Therapy
Winkle, K., Caleb-Solly, P., Turton, A., & Bremner, P. (2019) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-019-00536-9 · Cited by 79
Torta, E., Oberzaucher, J., Werner, F., Cuijpers, R. H., & Juola, J. F. (2013) · Journal of Human-Robot Interaction · doi:10.5898/jhri.1.2.torta · Cited by 76
“Indeed, previous research suggests that people’s attitude toward robots seems to be positive when people are shown that robots might take over household chores such as cleaning the kitchen or the bathroom (Beer et al., 2012).”
BackgroundBedaf, S., Marti, P., & De Witte, L. (2019) · Assistive Technology · doi:10.1080/10400435.2017.1402390 · Cited by 70
Backonja, U., Hall, A. K., Painter, I., Kneale, L., Lazar, A., Cakmak, M., Thompson, H. J., & Demiris, G. (2018) · Journal of Nursing Scholarship · doi:10.1111/jnu.12430 · Cited by 68
“Unfortunately, we currently have a limited understanding of attitudes across age groups of adults; most research only includes older adults (Beer et al., 2012; Broekens et al., 2009; Stafford et al., 2010; Stafford, MacDonald, Jayawardena, Wegner, & Broadbent, 2014) or only young and older adults…”
Can Aging in Place Be Cost Effective? A Systematic Review
Graybill, E., McMeekin, P. J., & Wildman, J. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102705 · Cited by 66
Towards a Holistic Approach to Studying Human–Robot Interaction in Later Life
Zafrani, O., & Nimrod, G. (2018) · The Gerontologist · doi:10.1093/geront/gny077 · Cited by 68
Between fear and trust: Older adults’ evaluation of socially assistive robots
Zafrani, O., Nimrod, G., & Edan, Y. (2022) · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102981 · Cited by 70
Older users’ acceptance of an assistive robot: Attitudinal changes following brief exposure
Beer, J. M., Prakash, A., Smarr, C.-A., Chen, T. L. B., Hawkins, K. P., Nguyen, H. D., Deyle, T., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2017) · Gerontechnology · doi:10.4017/gt.2017.16.1.003.00 · Cited by 63
Self-citationLehoux, P., & Grimard, D. (2018) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.038 · Cited by 61
What Older People Expect of Robots: A Mixed Methods Approach
Frennert, S., Eftring, H., & Östlund, B. (2013) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_3 · Cited by 60
Results of a real world trial with a mobile social service robot for older adults
Pripfl, J., Körtner, T., Batko-Klein, D., Hebesberger, D., Weninger, M., Gisinger, C., Frennert, S., Eftring, H., Antona, M., Adami, I., et al. (2016) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1109/hri.2016.7451824 · Cited by 58
“In one of the first studies of its kind, a low-cost mobile social service robot with an arm that was intended to interact fully autonomously [7] over weeks was deployed in seniors’ private homes to support them with tasks and make them feel safe.”
BackgroundLee, M. H., Siewiorek, D. P., Smailagic, A., Bernardino, A. J. M., & Badia, S. B. I. (2022) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-022-00883-0 · Cited by 59
Situated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction with Older Adults
Stegner, L., Senft, E., & Mutlu, B. (2023) · Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3544548.3580893 · Cited by 56
“Most of these studies do not include the actual robot, and they instead rely on video demonstrations [6, 16], storyboard images showing what a robot may do [5], or other images of robots [9].”
BackgroundOlder adults' medication management in the home: How can robots help?
Prakash, A., Beer, J. M., Deyle, T., Smarr, C.-A., Chen, T. L. B., Mitzner, T. L., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2013) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1109/hri.2013.6483600 · Cited by 56
“Independently living older adults prefer compensatory support that can help them with the difficult aspect of the task while allowing them to do what they still can and want to do[14].”
BackgroundSelf-citationPoliteness in Human–Robot Interaction: A Multi-Experiment Study with Non-Humanoid Robots
Kumar, S., Itzhak, E., Edan, Y., Nimrod, G., Sarne‐Fleischmann, V., & Tractinsky, N. (2022) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-022-00911-z · Cited by 52
Patten, R. V., Keller, A. V., Maye, J. E., Jeste, D. V., Depp, C. A., Riek, L. D., & Twamley, E. W. (2020) · Clinical Interventions in Aging · doi:10.2147/cia.s253236 · Cited by 47
Marston, H. R., Ivan, L., Fernández-Ardèvol, M., Rosales, A., Goméz-León, M., Blanche, D., Earle, S., Ko, P., Colas, S., Bilir, B., et al. (2020) · Frontiers in Sociology · doi:10.3389/fsoc.2020.574811 · Cited by 53
“…Fernández-Ardèvol, 2019), telemedicine and emerging technologies for healthcare (Sixsmith and Sixsmith, 2000; Mitzner et al., 2012; Czaja et al., 2013; Sharit et al., 2019), and to support age-in-place ( Mynatt et al., 2000, 2004; Beer et al., 2012; Marston and van Hoof, 2019; White et al., 2020).”
BackgroundAdopting Diffractive Reading to Advance HCI Research: A Case Study on Technology for Aging
Lazar, A., Jelen, B., Pradhan, A., & Siek, K. A. (2021) · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction · doi:10.1145/3462326 · Cited by 47
Lee, M. H., Siewiorek, D. P., Smailagic, A., Bernardino, A. J. M., & Badia, S. B. I. (2023) · User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction · doi:10.1007/s11257-022-09348-5 · Cited by 53
“For creating user-centered, socially assistive robots, researchers have engaged with various stakeholders to derive design requirements (Beer et al. 2012; Azenkot et al. 2016; Winkle et al. 2018; Lee et al. 2022).”
Younger and older users׳ recognition of virtual agent facial expressions
Beer, J. M., Smarr, C.-A., Fisk, A. D., & Rogers, W. A. (2014) · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.11.005 · Cited by 44
Self-citationCo-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults
Antony, V. N., Cho, S. M., & Huang, C. (2023) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1145/3568162.3576995 · Cited by 43
“There was a clear desire for a compact robot and participants also voiced their preference for the robot to look “good” as defned by their standards described as “cute”, “ftting the decor” and “not toy-like”; this complemented past studies reporting on need for small-form factors [53, 54], however, we could not establ…”
BackgroundResultOlder People’s Prior Robot Attitudes Influence Evaluations of a Conversational Robot
Stafford, R. Q., MacDonald, B. A., Li, X., & Broadbent, E. (2014) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0224-9 · Cited by 43
“[22–24]).”
Louie, W.-Y. G., Li, J., Vaquero, T., & Nejat, G. (2014) · IEEE RO-MAN · doi:10.1109/roman.2014.6926259 · Cited by 43
Robinson, F., & Nejat, G. (2022) · Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering · doi:10.1177/20556683221101389 · Cited by 45
“Crucial to having positive human-robot interaction (HRI) experiences in senior care settings is the overall design of the robot, considering the unique challenges and opportunities that come with novice users in specific task and environment contexts.(13) Findings in senior care have shown a diverse set of SAR feature…”
BackgroundSocial Robots in Aged Care: Care Staff Experiences and Perspectives on Robot Benefits and Challenges
Yuan, S., Coghlan, S., Lederman, R., & Waycott, J. (2022) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3555220 · Cited by 41
“Prior work on older adults and social robots has investigated older adults’ attitudes towards having robots to assist them with their daily lives [3, 10, 63], their perceptions of the design and potential value of robots [20, 42, 64], and their experiences with using robots [15, 32, 53, 54].”
BackgroundSocial Robots for Older Adults: Framework of Activities for Aging in Place with Robots
Alves‐Oliveira, P., Petisca, S., Correia, F., Maia, N. M. M., & Paiva, A. (2015) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_2 · Cited by 42
“Studies have shown the role that robots can have in providing assistance with house keeping activities [2], or by providing support over the needs and difficulties of older adults [11].”
BackgroundFactors Affecting the Initial Engagement of Older Adults in the Use of Interactive Technology
Lee, L., & Maher, M. L. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18062847 · Cited by 45
Nanavati, A., Ranganeni, V., & Çakmak, M. (2023) · Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems · doi:10.1146/annurev-control-062823-024352 · Cited by 44
Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities
Stegner, L., & Mutlu, B. (2022) · Designing Interactive Systems Conference · doi:10.1145/3532106.3533536 · Cited by 37
Mental models of robots among senior citizens
Walden, J. A., Jung, E. H., Sundar, S. S., & Johnson, A. C. (2015) · Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems · doi:10.1075/is.16.1.04wal · Cited by 36
Immersive participatory design of assistive robots to support older adults
Olatunji, S., Nguyen, V., Çakmak, M., Edsinger, A., Kemp, C. C., Rogers, W. A., & Mahajan, H. (2024) · Ergonomics · doi:10.1080/00140139.2024.2312529 · Cited by 37
“…to help with or perform home tasks (Ostrowski et al., 2019). such robots are designed to provide physical support (e.g. robots for house chores, Beer et al. 2012), cognitive stimulation (e.g. robots supporting Mci patients, law et al. 2019), social communication (e.g. social companion robots,…”
BackgroundSelf-citationEngaging Older Adults with Depression as Co-Designers of Assistive In-Home Robots
Randall, N., Šabanović, S., & Chang, W. (2018) · International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare · doi:10.1145/3240925.3240946 · Cited by 33
“Researchers have done surveys [2,11], observational studies, [5,10] and quasiexperimental studies [4,20] to discover how robots are used by older adults with mental and physical health issues in this environment.”
BackgroundLEADOR: A Method for End-To-End Participatory Design of Autonomous Social Robots
Winkle, K., Senft, E., & Lemaignan, S. (2021) · Frontiers in Robotics and AI · doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.704119 · Cited by 37
“Typically, researchers set the research agenda based on prior assumptions regarding the context of use and proposed robot application (e.g., Louie et al., 2014, Wu et al., 2012, and Beer et al., 2012).”
BackgroundHuber, A., Lammer, L., Weiss, A., & Vincze, M. (2014) · Journal of Human-Robot Interaction · doi:10.5898/jhri.3.2.huber · Cited by 32
“These studies mainly use interviews and questionnaires completed by potential end users (Beer et al., 2012; Dautenhahn et al., 2005; Lohse, Hegel, & Wrede, 2008; Mahani & Eklundh, 2009).”
BackgroundDevelopment and Comparison of Customized Voice-Assistant Systems for Independent Living Older Adults
Shalini, S., Levins, T., Robinson, E. L., Lane, K., Park, G., & Skubic, M. (2019) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22015-0_36 · Cited by 32
“Several studies show the use of interactive robotic devices could assist in healthcare management[8-10].”
BackgroundCo-design and Robots: A Case Study of a Robot Dog for Aging People
Leong, T. W., & Johnston, B. (2016) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_69 · Cited by 31
“’s [4] review of domestic robots efforts highlight various ways robots have been proposed to help with aging people, e.”
BackgroundConfiguring Humans: What Roles Humans Play in HRI Research
Lee, H. R., Cheon, E., Lim, C., & Fischer, K. (2022) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1109/hri53351.2022.9889496 · Cited by 34
Would Granny Let an Assistive Robot into Her Home?
Frennert, S., Östlund, B., & Eftring, H. (2012) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_13 · Cited by 31
Özdemir, D., Cibulka, J., Štěpánková, O., & Holmerová, I. (2021) · Health and Technology · doi:10.1007/s12553-021-00522-0 · Cited by 30
“To acknowledge the needs of the social and economical side of looking after the senior citizens, technological solutions are suggested to come forward [2].”
BackgroundKinect based calling gesture recognition for taking order service of elderly care robot
Zhao, X., Naguib, A. M., & Lee, S. (2014) · IEEE RO-MAN · doi:10.1109/roman.2014.6926306 · Cited by 29
“[2] shows some challenges of elderly care robot in domesticated environments such as house work and human assistance activities.”
BackgroundNeeds and user acceptance of older adults for mobile service robot
Sääskilahti, K., Kangaskorte, R., Pieskä, S., Jauhiainen, J., & Luimula, M. (2012) · IEEE RO-MAN · doi:10.1109/roman.2012.6343810 · Cited by 29
Social service robots to support independent living
Pripfl, J., Körtner, T., Batko-Klein, D., Hebesberger, D., Weninger, M., & Gisinger, C. (2016) · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · doi:10.1007/s00391-016-1067-4 · Cited by 29
Muthugala, M. A. V. J., & Jayasekara, A. G. B. P. (2016) · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · doi:10.1109/icra.2016.7487456 · Cited by 27
“lk users and the robots obviously depends on the availability of human-human like interactions in human-robot interactions also [8], [11].”
BackgroundOstrowski, A. K., Harrington, C. N., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021) · Frontiers in Robotics and AI · doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.716581 · Cited by 26
“Robots are increasingly being proposed as tools to alleviate functional decline and social isolation as older adults age-in-place (Forlizzi et al., 2004; Beer et al., 2012; Smarr et al., 2014).”
BackgroundDomestic Robots for Homecare: A Technology Acceptance Perspective
Ziefle, M., & Valdez, A. S. C. (2017) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58530-7_5 · Cited by 26
Elders prefer female robots with a high degree of human likeness
Esposito, A. A., Amorese, T., Cuciniello, M., Pica, I., Riviello, M. T., Troncone, A., Cordasco, G., & Esposito, A. M. (2019) · IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) · doi:10.1109/isce.2019.8900983 · Cited by 25
“Robots can assist elders in accomplishing several home-based tasks allowing them to continue living independently in their own homes [1], supporting them in executing several daily activities and monitoring their cognitive and health status [2].”
BackgroundA mixed-method approach to evoke creative and holistic thinking about robots in a home environment
Caleb-Solly, P., Dogramadzi, S., Ellender, D., Fear, T., & Heuvel, H. V. D. (2014) · Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction · doi:10.1145/2559636.2559681 · Cited by 36
“The participants identified tasks that are similar to those used by Beer et al. [30] in their questionnaire which corroborate their results indicating how people perceive the robot as being useful for manual cleaning tasks.”
ResultCha, E., Forlizzi, J., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2015) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1145/2696454.2696465 · Cited by 24
“In the future, we envision domestic robots to perform a wide range of tasks, able to assist people with limited mobility or support aging in place [1, 4, 11].”
BackgroundNeeds and attitudes of Singaporeans towards home service robots: a multi-generational perspective
Xu, Q., Ng, J., Tan, O., & Huang, Z. (2014) · Universal Access in the Information Society · doi:10.1007/s10209-014-0355-2 · Cited by 24
“[11] developed insights and design guidelines on how robots could help elderly people age in place.”
BackgroundResultMymemory: A mobile memory assistant for people with traumatic brain injury
Chang, C., Hinze, A., Bowen, J., Gilbert, L., & Starkey, N. J. (2018) · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.02.006 · Cited by 23
Łukasik, S., Tobis, S., Suwalska, J., Łojko, D., Napierała, M., Proch, M., Neumann‐Podczaska, A., & Suwalska, A. (2021) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su131810394 · Cited by 27
“It is emphasized that when older adults were asked about their perceptions, they were open to new robotic technologies [73,84,85].”
BackgroundTowards a Robot for Supporting Older People to Stay Longer Independent at Home
Vincze, M., Zagler, W. L., Lammer, L., Weiss, A., Huber, A., Fischinger, D., Körtner, T., Schmid, A., & Gisinger, C. (2014) · International Symposium on Robotics · Cited by 23
Investigating older adults' social networks and coproduction activities for health
Yuan, C. W., Kropczynski, J., Wirth, R. J., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. (2017) · International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare · doi:10.1145/3154862.3154876 · Cited by 22
“Another common technology intervention is to provide healthcare interventions, such as home robots that assist with house maintenance [4, 27] or assistive technologies that monitor accidents [38].”
BackgroundPetrich, L., Jin, J., Dehghan, M., & Jägersand, M. (2022) · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · doi:10.1109/icra46639.2022.9811960 · Cited by 21
Li, Y., Abdul‐Rashid, S. H., & Ghazilla, R. A. R. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su14052545 · Cited by 21
Marchetti, E., Grimme, S. A., Hornecker, E., Kollakidou, A., & Graf, P. (2022) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3491102.3517463 · Cited by 21
Bhowmick, P., & Stolterman, E. (2023) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/3544549.3585722 · Cited by 23
“as cleaning and organizing [11], or a robotic medication reminder assistant [141], or even as emergency response [57].”
BackgroundUnderstanding Older Adults’ Perceptions of Usefulness for the Paro Robot
McGlynn, S. A., Kemple, S., Mitzner, T. L., King, C., & Rogers, W. A. (2014) · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · doi:10.1177/1541931214581400 · Cited by 22
“, visual, haptic, and auditory declines) in the design of robots should facilitate older adults’ ability to interact with and accept this technology (Beer et al., 2012).”
BackgroundSelf-citationMay, D. C., Holler, K. J., Bethel, C. L., Strawderman, L. J., Carruth, D. W., & Usher, J. M. (2017) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-016-0390-7 · Cited by 21
Huang, T., & Huang, C. (2021) · Work · doi:10.3233/wor-205166 · Cited by 20
Affective Human–Robot Interaction
Beer, J. M., Liles, K. R., Wu, X., & Pakala, S. (2017) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-801851-4.00015-x · Cited by 20
Self-citationYuan, C. W., Hanrahan, B. V., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. (2018) · Behaviour and Information Technology · doi:10.1080/0144929x.2018.1432686 · Cited by 22
Saplacan, D., Khaksar, W., & Tørresen, J. (2021) · IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) · doi:10.1109/arso51874.2021.9542844 · Cited by 19
Modular Verification of Vehicle Platooning with Respect to Decisions, Space and Time
Kamali, M., Linker, S., & Fisher, M. (2019) · Communications in computer and information science · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12988-0_2 · Cited by 18
Enhancing Privacy in Robotics via Judicious Sensor Selection
Eick, S. G., & Antón, A. I. (2020) · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · doi:10.1109/icra40945.2020.9196983 · Cited by 18
“Beer et al. created design guidelines for mobile manipulator robots to enable aging at home [30].”
BackgroundA Robotic Home Assistant with Memory Aid Functionality
Wieser, I., Toprak, S., Grenzing, A., Hinz, T., Auddy, S., Karaoğuz, E. C., Chandran, A., Remmels, M., Shinawi, A. E., Josifovski, J., et al. (2016) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46073-4_8 · Cited by 16
“A study about domestic assistive systems has shown that older adults would prefer robotic assistance over human help to support them in finding lost objects at home [3].”
BackgroundLearning Robust Bed Making using Deep Imitation Learning with DARTPreprint
Laskey, M., Powers, C., Joshi, R., Poursohi, A., & Goldberg, K. Y. (2017) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.02525 · Cited by 18
Designing Robots for Aging: Wisdom as a Critical Lens
Lee, H. R., & Riek, L. D. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction · doi:10.1145/3549531 · Cited by 19
“Thus, most robots focused on compensating for potential human decline, relecting a deicit model of aging [9, 54].”
BackgroundSocial robotic application to support active and healthy ageing
Cooper, S., Fava, A. D., Villacañas, Ó., Silva, T., Fernández-Carbajales, V., Unzueta, L., Serras, M., Marchionni, L., & Ferro, F. (2021) · IEEE RO-MAN · doi:10.1109/ro-man50785.2021.9515432 · Cited by 17
Chrysikou, E. G., Biddulph, J. P., Loizides, F., Savvopoulou, E., Rehn-Groenendijk, J., Jones, N., Dennis-Jones, A., Nandi, A., & Tziraki, C. (2024) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su16145837 · Cited by 16
“According to Beer et al. (2012), physical attributes to assistive robots such as footprint, height, and mass are recommended elements by older people and should be taken into account in the design process.”
Körtner, T., Schmid, A., Batko-Klein, D., Gisinger, C., Huber, A., Lammer, L., & Vincze, M. (2012) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_14 · Cited by 15
Carlson, L. A., Skubic, M., Miller, J. E., Huo, Z., & Alexenko, T. (2014) · Topics in Cognitive Science · doi:10.1111/tops.12101 · Cited by 15
“The selection of this scenario is motivated by the fact that older adults identify fetch tasks in which the robot retrieves a desired object as one of the top five tasks for assistive devices (Beer et al., 2012).”
BackgroundHarrington, C., Mitzner, T. L., & Rogers, W. A. (2015) · Gerontechnology · doi:10.4017/gt.2015.14.1.004.00 · Cited by 15
“Additionally, these technologies have the ability to automate basic activities through the use of personal robotics and in-home smart systems 54 .”
Self-citationOlder people and robotic technologies in the home
Petrie, H., & Darzentas, J. (2017) · International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) · doi:10.1145/3056540.3056553 · Cited by 15
“The details of the physical help asked for can be seen to support ageing-in-place [5, 6, 59].”
BackgroundInfluentialPerceptions of socially assistive robots: A pilot study exploring older adults’ concerns
Harrington, E. E., Bishop, A. J., Do, H. M., & Sheng, W. (2021) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-021-01627-5 · Cited by 15
“There is some indication that first impressions surrounding the appearance, comfort, and practicality of technology are essential for successful integration (Beer et al., 2012; Charness et al., 2017), whereas others contend that privacy and monitoring capabilities dictate whether clinicians can effectively implement p…”
BackgroundInfluentialImpacts of Robot Learning on User Attitude and Behavior
Moorman, N. M., Hedlund-Botti, E., Schrum, M., Natarajan, M., & Gombolay, M. (2023) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · doi:10.1145/3568162.3576996 · Cited by 14
Android-based speech processing for eldercare robotics
Alexenko, T., Biondo, M., Banisakher, D. M., & Skubic, M. (2013) · ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) · doi:10.1145/2451176.2451213 · Cited by 13
“INTRODUCTION Recent studies have shown that one of the top five tasks noted by seniors for assistive robots is help with fetching objects, for example, retrieving missing eyeglasses [3], and the preferred form of communication with the robot is speech [7].”
BackgroundVerma, S., Gonthina, P. S., Hawks, Z., Nahar, D., Brooks, J. O., Walker, I. D., Wang, Y., de Aguiar, C., & Green, K. E. (2018) · International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare · doi:10.1145/3240925.3240978 · Cited by 13
“Our ambition is informed by wide-ranging input, including furniture design through history [15], and guidelines for designing domestic robots [3].”
BackgroundThe Race Between Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence
Arora, A. S., & Arora, A. (2019) · International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies · doi:10.4018/ijiit.2020010101 · Cited by 13
Informal caregivers’ perception of assistive robots in eldercare
Tan, S., Yap, Y.-Y., Tan, S., & Wong, C. K. (2024) · Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity · doi:10.1016/j.joitmc.2024.100234 · Cited by 12
Humanoid and android robots in the imaginary of adolescents, young adults and seniors
Esposito, A. A., Cuciniello, M., Amorese, T., Vinciarelli, A., & Cordasco, G. (2022) · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · doi:10.1007/s12652-022-03806-z · Cited by 12
“…behaviours, encourage greater social participation, extend their independent living, and ensure active and healthy aging (AHA) while continuing living independently in their homes (Beer et al. 2012; Bishop et al. 2019; Cardinaux et al. 2011; Esposito and Jain 2016a, b; Esposito et al. 2014).”
The Use of Cobots for Disabled and Older Adults
Biton, A., Shoval, S., & Lerman, Y. (2022) · IFAC-PapersOnLine · doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.04.176 · Cited by 12
Evaluating public opinion towards robots: a mixed-method approach
Operto, S. (2019) · Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics · doi:10.1515/pjbr-2019-0023 · Cited by 15
Fasola, J., & Matarić, M. J. (2013) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_50 · Cited by 10
“Spatially-oriented tasks such as fetching and moving objects are commonly referenced among the tasks most desired by non-expert users for household service robots to perform [3].”
BackgroundExtreme human-robot interfaces: Increasing trust and assurance around robots
Ximenes, B. H., Moreira, Í. V. M., & Kelner, J. (2014) · IEEE RO-MAN · doi:10.1109/roman.2014.6926384 · Cited by 10
“However, in spite of the crescent introduction of robots in their lives, humans still find it hard to trust and depend on a robot, for a series of reasons [4] that range from creating a psychological dependence of something that is not human to fearing the robot will run out of battery in an emergency.”
BackgroundELDERLY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Zainol, R. B., & Pettit, C. J. (2016) · PLANNING MALAYSIA · doi:10.21837/pmjournal.v14.i5.192 · Cited by 10
Sirithunge, H. P. C., Muthugala, M. A. V. J., Buddhika, A. G., Jayasekara, A. G. B. P., & Chandima, D. P. (2017) · IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) · doi:10.1109/fuzz-ieee.2017.8015610 · Cited by 10
“Service robots are developed as a solution to the crisis of caregivers with the rapid rise of disabled and elderly population [1]–[3].”
BackgroundSaplacan, D., & Tørresen, J. (2022) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05654-3_6 · Cited by 10
Metadata
- Authors
- Beer, J. M., Smarr, C.-A., Chen, T. L., Prakash, A., Mitzner, T. L., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2012-03-05
- Volume
- 2012
- Pages
- 335-342
- PMC
- PMC6592031
- OpenAlex
- W2113295453
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 32.69
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (P01AG017211)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robotics and Automated Systems
- Keywords
- home robots, assistive robots, aging in place, older adults, needs assessment, robot acceptance, cleaning tasks, mobile manipulators, user preferences, user concerns
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
