Towards Older Adults Cognitive and Emotional Stimulation via Robotic Cognitive Games

Patrícia Cesário, Samuel Santos, Bernardo Lourenço, Inês Martins and Paulo J. S. Gonçalves
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Patrícia Cesário: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Vila Velha de Ródão, R. de Santana 654, 6030-230 Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal
Samuel Santos: IDMEC, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Av Empresário, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal
Bernardo Lourenço: IDMEC, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Av Empresário, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal
Inês Martins: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Vila Velha de Ródão, R. de Santana 654, 6030-230 Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal
Paulo J. S. Gonçalves: IDMEC, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Av Empresário, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal

Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: The paper presents and discusses a framework to promote older adults cognitive and emotional stimulation via Robotic Cognitive Games. The work is based on classic games for older adults, e.g., to place objects in pre-defined positions in an arena, where the authors introduce a robot in the games. The paper not only presents the robotic games, but also the methodology developed to properly introduce them to older adults in a nursing home. As such, the paper proposes three cognitive robotic games, a methodology to assess the success of its introduction to older adults, keeping in mind cognitive and emotional aspects. To validate the proposed robotic solution, experimental tests were performed in a nursing home. A prior cognitive and emotional test was done with older adults to have a ground truth to compare with after a batch of games was completed by each older adult. The results and their discussion validate the robotic games approach, and also the methodology used for its introduction in the nursing home.

Keywords: older adults; cognitive robotic games; cognitive and emotional assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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