Health Promotion Using Smart Device Interlocked Robot Partners for Elderly People

Abstract

This paper presents a health promotion system implemented into a smart device interlocked robot partner. Health promotion is one of the most important tasks for supporting elderly people. To heighten awareness about health, suitable knowledge of healthcare should be provided to elderly people improving their motivation. In the proposed system, the robot partner can give some quizzes to the user. The content of the quizzes is produced based on a concept of the transtheoretical model of health behavior change. Each quiz is selected by a stochastic model sequentially updated through the human-robot interaction. In this paper, we show an experimental result of a questionnaire to discuss the effectiveness of the proposed system.