What older People Expect of Robots: A Mixed Methods Approach
Frennert, Susanne LU
; Eftring, Håkan
LU
and Östlund, Britt
LU
(2013)
Social Robotics, 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013
8239.
p.19-29
- Abstract
- This paper focuses on how older people in Sweden imagine the potential role of robots in their lives. The data collection involved mixed methods, including focus groups, a workshop, a questionnaire and interviews. The findings obtained and lessons learnt from one method fed into another. In total, 88 older people were involved. The results indicate that the expectations and preconceptions about robots are multi-dimensional and ambivalent. Ambivalence can been seen in the tension between the benefits of having a robot looking after the older people, helping with or carrying out tasks they no longer are able to do, and the parallel attitudes, resilience and relational inequalities that accompany these benefits. The participants perceived... (More)
- This paper focuses on how older people in Sweden imagine the potential role of robots in their lives. The data collection involved mixed methods, including focus groups, a workshop, a questionnaire and interviews. The findings obtained and lessons learnt from one method fed into another. In total, 88 older people were involved. The results indicate that the expectations and preconceptions about robots are multi-dimensional and ambivalent. Ambivalence can been seen in the tension between the benefits of having a robot looking after the older people, helping with or carrying out tasks they no longer are able to do, and the parallel attitudes, resilience and relational inequalities that accompany these benefits. The participants perceived that having a robot might be “good for others but not themselves”, “good as a machine not a friend” while their relatives and informal caregivers perceived a robot as “not for my relative but for other older people”. (Less)
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- author
- Frennert, Susanne
LU
; Eftring, Håkan
LU
and Östlund, Britt
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- expectations, robots, Older people
- categories
- Higher Education
- host publication
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- editor
- Herrmann, Guido
- volume
- 8239
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- Social Robotics, 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013
- conference location
- Bristol, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2013-10-27 - 2013-10-29
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84892414030
- project
- HOBBIT - The Mutual Care Robot
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 34202147-0833-4f0c-a949-139512c39926 (old id 4281202)
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