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An exploratory study of health professionals' attitudes about robotic telepresence technology

This article presents the results from a video-based evaluation study of a social robotic telepresence solution for elderly. The evaluated system is a mobile teleoperated robot called Giraff that allows caregivers to virtually enter a home and conduct a natural visit just as if they were physically there. The evaluation focuses on the perspectives from primary healthcare organizations and collects the feedback from different categories of health professionals. The evaluation included 150 participants and yielded unexpected results with respect to the acceptance of the Giraff system. In particular, greater exposure to technology did not necessarily increase acceptance and large variances occurred between the categories of health professionals. In addition to outlining the results, this study provides a number of indications with respect to increasing acceptance for technology for elderly. / <p>The final version of this article can be read at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15228835.2011.639509</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-23315
Date January 2011
CreatorsKristoffersson, Annica, Coradeschi, Silvia, Loutfi, Amy, Severinson Eklundh, Kerstin
PublisherÖrebro universitet, Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik, Örebro universitet, Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik, Örebro universitet, Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationJournal of technology in human services, 1522-8835, 2011, 29:4, s. 263-283

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