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ORIENT
The ORIENT project is encouraged within the framework of JOINT PROGRAMMING INITIATIVE „MORE YEARS, BETTER LIVES“ – THE POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE.
Within the consortium, it will be jointly examined how the introduction of new technologies can be improved in the sense of co-creation in the field of care. In particular, the use of care robots should be considered. Up to now, barriers to the acceptance of care robots and deficiencies in the use of care robots have impaired efficient use. In order to overcome these obstacles and shortcomings, new methods and models are to be developed within the framework of ORIENT, which will enable the effective use of the technology – particularly the needs of older customers and their relatives will be given special consideration. Nurses, care services and other stakeholders from the private sector, the public sector and the non-profit sector should also be considered within this field of innovation.
More information at www.robotorientation.eu or https://digitales.nrw/de/schaufenster-digitales-nrw/projekte/orient-roboter-fuer-die-pflege.
The ORIENT project group has drawn up a roadmap to robotics in nursing care as a consequence of many enquiries.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Thommes, Julia Hoppe
Partner: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; Mälardalen University, Sweden
Supported within the Horizon2020 Initiative by the BMBF, 01st April 2018 to 31st August 2020
Publications
Open list in Research Information System
2022
Tuisku, O., Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Hoppe, J. A., Pekkarinen, S., Hennala, L., Thommes, K., Gustafsson, C., & Melkas, H. (2022). Assistant nurses and orientation to care robot use in three European countries. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2022.2042736
2020
Pekkarinen, S., Hennala, L., Tuisku, O., Gustafsson, C., Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Thommes, K., … Melkas, H. (2020). Care robots in society: Knowledge and orientation needs. Gerontechnology. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2020.19.s.69664
Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Thommes, K., Hoppe, J. A., Tuisku, O., Hennala, L., Pekkarinen, S., … Gustafsson, C. (2020). The need for care robot orientation in elder care services. Gerontechnology. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2020.19.s.69574
Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Thommes, K., Hoppe, J. A., Tuisku, O., Hennala, L., Pekkarinen, S., … Gustafsson, C. (2020). Care Robot Orientation: What, Who and How? Potential Users` Perceptions. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00619-y
Thommes, K., Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Gustaffson, C., Pekkarinen, S., Tuisku, O., Hennala, L., Melkas, H., & Hoppe, J. A. (2020). Trust development in care robots by opinion leader in the society. Gerontechnology. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2020.19.s.70024.4
Pekkarinen, S., Hennala, L., Tuisku, O., Gustafsson, C., Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Thommes, K., Hoppe, J. A., & Melkas, H. (2020). Embedding care robots into society and practice: Socio-technical considerations. Futures, 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2020.102593
Hoppe, J. A., Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Gustafsson, C., Melkas, H., Tusku, O., Pekkarinen, S., … Thommes, K. (2020). Assistive robots in care: Expectations and perceptions of older people. In J. Haltaufderheide, J. Hovemann, & J. Vollmann (Eds.), Aging between Participation and Simulation - Ethical Dimensions of Socially Assistive Technologies in elderly care (pp. 139–156). Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677485-009
2019
Johansson-Pajala, R.-M., Thommes, K., Hoppe, J. A., Tuisku, O., Hennala, L., Pekkarinen, S., Melkas, H., & Gustafsson, C. (2019). Improved Knowledge Changes the Mindset: Older Adults’ Perceptions of Care Robots. In J. Zhou & G. Salvendy (Eds.), HCII 2019 (Vol. 11592, pp. 212–227). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_16
