 Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging (ACCRA) Project: new technological solutions for older peopleGrazia D’onofrio,
Laura Fiorini,
Marleen de Mul,
Isabelle Fabbricotti,
Yasuo Okabe,
Rafaele Limosani,
Alessandra Vitanza,
Francesca Greco,
Francesco Giuliani,
Denis Guiot,
Eloïse Sengès,
Hiroshi Hoshino,
Antonio Kung,
Filippo Cavallo,
Daniele Sancarlo and
Antonio Greco
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: Introduction: Worldwide population is getting older. The older persons want to stay independent and wish to increase their engagement in social activities to tackle loneliness, depression, and isolation. Starting from these assumptions, we developed the ACCRA project (Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging) with the aim to enable the development of advanced ICT Robotics-based solutions for extending active and healthy aging in daily life by defining, developing and demonstrating an agile co-creation development process. Methods: ACCRA robotics solutions will be designed and developed to be tested in three different domains: mobility, daily life, socialization support in four countries (i.e., France, Netherlands, Italy, and Japan). The proposed approach identifies four different phases: (1) needs analysis, (2) agile co-creation, (3) experimentation, and (4) sustainability analysis. Currently, the first two phases were almost completed. For the needs phase, we have used the following recruitment criteria: (1) for mobility: age ≥ 60 years, the and presence of mobility issues assessed by Older Mobility Scale (EMS) with a score > 13; (2) for daily life: age ≥ 60 years, and the presence of difficulties engaging in housework assessed by Autonomie Gérontologie Groupes Iso-Ressources (AGGIR) with a GIR score ≥ 4; (3) for socialization support: age ≥ 60 years, and the absence or mild level of cognitive impairment assessed by Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) with a score ≥ 24. Results: The needs analysis and first co-creation sessions focus attention on the experience of older in the four countries. Preliminary results showed how, in all the pilot sites, many expectations were raised from older, formal and informal caregivers about the application of the technology into their life. Minor concerns existed about privacy, real efficacy and modularity in a real-world environment. Overall, a good attitude was recorded towards the use of technologies to support life and promote independent living. Moreover, the older engaged in our studies showed a great interest to be actively involved in the developing phase of something built based on their needs. Conclusions: The availability of new solutions to increase independence and quality of life in a sustainable manner appears to be mandatory in the actual society considering the actual socio-economic situation over the industrial countries. Keywords: Social robot; Elderly; Qualitative research; Needs analysis; Co-creation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in European Geriatric Medicine, 2018, 9, ⟨10.1007/s41999-018-0106-7⟩ Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02748871 DOI: 10.1007/s41999-018-0106-7 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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