{"id":835,"date":"2018-11-01T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/?p=835"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:31:56","slug":"robot-engagement-fieldwork-on-human-robots-interaction-at-a-nursing-home-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/2018\/11\/01\/robot-engagement-fieldwork-on-human-robots-interaction-at-a-nursing-home-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Engagement: Fieldwork on Human-Robots Interaction at a Nursing Home in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1164\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1302-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1302-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1302-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1302-1024x595.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I did my fieldwork on Human-Robots Interaction at a nursing home in Tokyo with Prof. Takanori Shibata, who is father of a therapeutic robot, Paro.<\/p>\n<p>The nursing home use many different kinds of robots, not only \u201crobots suits\u201d by Cyberdyne but also communication robots such as Aibo, Pepper and Paro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1163 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1247-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The first photo shows elderly people with dementia sat together in a common room as they have to be awake during the daytime. Some watched TV, others did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But this silence was suddenly broken when the nurse brought in Aibo and Paro. The residents became very excited, alive and smiling &#8211; touching and talking to robots. \u00a0Gradually, however, the excitement wears off \u2013 and a few began dozing off again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1162\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1271-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>However, when the nurse came to sit next to them, they became happy to talk with the nurse while holding Paro, as you can see in the second photo.<\/p>\n<p>Not only elderly people but the nurses too seemed happy.<\/p>\n<p>The care manager, Yukari Sekiguchi told me, \u201cthe greatest effect of robots that they bring smiles to our nurses\u201d. Paro makes elderly people calm dawn and reduces the tension between them and the nurses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1161 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_1286-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The significance is this: social robots are not just about healing people; they act as media to connect and reinforce social intimacy between people at the affective level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my fieldwork on Human-Robots Interaction at a nursing home in Tokyo with Prof. Takanori Shibata, who is father of a therapeutic robot, Paro. The nursing home use many different kinds of robots, not only \u201crobots suits\u201d by Cyberdyne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/2018\/11\/01\/robot-engagement-fieldwork-on-human-robots-interaction-at-a-nursing-home-in-tokyo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13076,117669,117668,117670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-human-robot-interaction","category-robot","category-super-aging-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}