Affiliation:
1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract
Social robots have the potential to augment the care provided to older adults in residential aged care homes. However, social robots can only be valuable in aged care if care staff successfully incorporate them into their ongoing care practices beyond a limited research period. This study examines the benefits and challenges of using different types of social robots in real-world practices from care staff perspectives. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eleven staff members who have first-hand experience of employing robots in their work. Our findings highlight the entangled relationships among the actors in the older adult/carer/robot triad. We discuss the role of robots in supporting a mutually beneficial relationship between care staff and older adults, and how robopets and humanoid robots impact care staff in different ways. Finally, we offer recommendations for the future deployment of robots. We argue that sustainable deployment of robots in care practice might involve recognizing and promoting positive impacts for both human parties in the triad, and that the practice of using robots needs to align with the needs and interests of both caregivers and care recipients.
Funder
Australian Research Council
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Cited by
9 articles.
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