Provide a sense of security to the communication robot "Hello baby" elderly to healthy the elderly

Kawasaki standard certification and verification results at an elderly facility

The manufacture and sale of the trend master Co., Ltd. (Representative Director Atsushi Nakata), communication robot, "Hello baby" two types, has been authenticated in the "Kawasaki standards". In addition, in the "long-term care robot such as a monitor survey business" of the elderly welfare facilities of the Foundation Techno Aid Association, improvement is seen in the psychological aspects to many elderly people in the facility, Hello baby, the elderly, I also found that it provides a sense of role and a sense of security.

Hello baby boy Hello baby girl

"Hello baby" is a baby type of stuffed toy, combines a simple acceleration sensor and sound sensor, had a growth function, in a communication robot, mom is as comforting the baby of one year old, that soothe the "Hello baby" Then, speak the words of a one-year-old child. There is no initial setting, just turn on the battery and turn on the switch to start up and remove the battery module to wash the stuffed toy body.
From this characteristic of the product, it was verified what effect it would have on the welfare of the elderly.

According to KIS (Kawasaki standard), people with dementia and people with disabilities have been used and verified, and as a result, they have been certified. The following are the comments from Kawasaki.
Hello baby is a product that Kizukeru the opportunity of communication, is by the user can be evaluated as a product that can also be expected to promote communication and healing effect. As a product that contributes to the independent living of the elderly, we evaluate its adaptability to "respect for personality and dignity", "safety and security", and "normalization" based on the Kawasaki Standards Philosophy, and judge that it is worth certification. I am trying.

In addition, we participated in the "care robot monitor survey project" sponsored by the Techno-Aid Foundation.
The place for investigation and verification is the social welfare corporation Tokyo Seishinkai (Director, Kazuko Obayashi)
The facility also conducted a survey to evaluate the acceptability of the device, mainly for the elderly and caregivers, and the effect of improving social psychology. Specifically, we focused on the following items.

(1) -22 In the interrai method evaluation, a survey was conducted on the “psycho-social aspect”, but 19 of 1 people showed improvement. As shown in Figure 2, improvement was observed regardless of age. Also, as shown in Fig. XNUMX, there were many cases of improvement regardless of the degree of independence in dementia life.

(1) -2 In particular, the following items were improved.
● Say negative things
● Continuous anger towards yourself and others
● Repeated complaints of physical condition
● Repeated criticism of confrontation with other users
● Repeated criticism of conflict with care staff
There was a decrease in the behaviors such as the above and there was a psychological improvement effect. In addition, they also had significant effects on spontaneity and sense of participation.

(XNUMX) -XNUMX SUS survey
In the use satisfaction survey of care staff using SUS, as shown in Fig. 24.7, the usability index (32.7) immediately after the introduction was improved to XNUMX after the introduction, and the satisfaction was clearly increased.

(XNUMX) -XNUMX Among the survey items, the following items are particularly prominent
● I felt that I would want to use it often
● I felt that most people could find out how to use it immediately.
I'm sure you can use it
And got a very high evaluation.

Comments from the monitoring facility (Kazuko Obayashi, Social Welfare Corporation, Tokyo Seishinkai)
"Hello baby" is, emits a babbling baby depending on the reaction of the user. We have received hopeful comments from users, "What do you say next time?" Initially, from the viewpoint of "cheap price" and "look" like a toy, the expectation value from the providing side was not high, and the function as a robot was "simple" and had the feeling of extending "plush toys". However, when it was actually introduced, the daily life of users changed a lot as "lively". In addition, until now proceeds is "visualization" of the introduction effect by the quantitative evaluation of the "invisible things" as a thought which was "the heart of the movement" and "psycho-social", as a result, "Hello baby" It was also found that provides users with a sense of "role" and a sense of security.

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