Abstract
Redefining robot based technologies for elderly people assistance: a survey
Highlights
Quite recently, a new field has emerged from both private and public research that has been denominated Assistive Technology
While in rehabilitation robotics, a major role is played by the human–machine interface (HMI) used to gather the patient’s intent from biological signals, and convert them into control signals for the robotic artefacts, surprisingly, decades of research have not yet declared what the optimal HMI is in this context [1]
The definition of assistive technologies relies on the classification of either social or medical models of disability. This is an important point that tends to distinguish ludic productions from assistive technologies themselves. This is surely a good way to look at Assistive Technology, along this paper we will try to enrich such a vision by including in the set of Assistive Technology Products tools that might work at a prevention level, a level that from our point of view is still one of the most desirable ones
Summary
A new field has emerged from both private and public research that has been denominated Assistive Technology. Assistive Technology - Examples The first examples of Assistive Technology Product we present are the HONDA Walking Assist Device and its Cyberdyne precursor HAL (Fig. 1) They both represent the classical Assistive Technology devices designed to remove barriers for elderly and disabled people, and that help users to support bodyweight to reduce the load on the user's legs while walking, going up and down stairs, and in a semi-crouching position. Both HAL and Walking Assist are examples of an efficient production that is professionally evaluated throughout specialist reports. Despite of the fact that the field seems to be promising and important, and with some good indications from the Paro robot by Shibata, there is not an effective Assistive Products outcome, yet
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