Companion robots are aimed to mitigate loneliness and social isolation among older adults
by providing social and emotional support in their everyday lives. However, older adults' …

Participatory robot design projects with older adults often use multiple sessions to
encourage design feedback and active participation from users. Prior projects have …

Introduction: Older adults are engaging more and more with voice-based agent and social
robot technologies, and roboticists are increasingly designing interactions for these systems …

With more robots entering social environments, such as care homes for older adults, it is
increasingly important to understand the target user groups' perception of different robot …

Motivating older adults to engage in cognitive activities has the potential to slow cognitive
decline. This article presents a participatory design (PD) workshop and follow-up prototype …

Social technology can improve the quality of social lives of older adults (OAs) and mitigate
negative mental and physical health outcomes. When people engage with technology, they …

This paper reports on a co-design workshop series with residents and care workers in care
homes, in which they ideate robotic technologies by starting from basic functionalities. We …

This thesis explores, through a mixed-methods approach, what happens when companion
robots are deployed in care homes for older adults by looking at different perspectives from …

People with cognitive impairments, such as older adults with dementia, can benefit from
psychosocial interventions. Such interventions can be therapies or actions used to (re-) …

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) have the potential to lead to severe health implications if not
detected and treated promptly. The Feather project aims to develop a system which will …