Yuko Yasuhara
Papers
20
Total Citations
447
H-Index
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About
Yuko Yasuhara is a pioneering nursing researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, gerontological care, and nursing theory, with a particular focus on addressing Japan's critical healthcare workforce shortages. Through a body of scholarship that has accumulated over 340 citations, Yasuhara has helped define how humanoid robots can serve as meaningful partners in nursing practice rather than mere technological novelties. Her landmark 2022 paper, "Robots and Robotics in Nursing," represents a comprehensive theoretical framework connecting robotics to established nursing principles, while her extensive studies of Pepper — a commercially available humanoid robot — have generated crucial real-world evidence about robot-human interactions among older adults with dementia and schizophrenia. Yasuhara's work is distinguished by its ethical depth: she has tackled difficult questions around legal liability, safety management, and the philosophical possibility of robots as caring entities. Her qualitative and participatory action research methods reveal how care workers serve as essential intermediaries in human-robot relationships. By grounding technological innovation within Japanese caring philosophy and nursing theory, Yasuhara has become an indispensable voice shaping how the global nursing community thinks about robotics in elder care.
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Top Papers
- 1Robots and Robotics in Nursing75 citations · 2022
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- 4Disruptive Engagements With Technologies, Robotics, and Caring32 citations · 2019
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- 7Humanoid Nurse Robots as Caring Entities: A Revolutionary Probability?24 citations · 2018
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