Towards Useful Social Capabilities for Robots in Healthcare

Merz N, Wittenberg T, Klein S, Lu S, Zebisch R, Retzer L, Niessen C, Kraus M, Andre E, Lang-Richter N, Pest C, Berger J, Schilp J, Franke J, Reitelshöfer S (2025)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: IEEE

City/Town: New York City

Pages Range: 1-6

Conference Proceedings Title: 2024 2nd International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT)

Event location: Erlangen DE

DOI: 10.1109/ISMT62540.2024.10986204

Abstract

Social robots aim to solve existing challenges in healthcare and nursing. Nevertheless, such robots are not yet capable of robustly engaging in a diverse range of social interactions. Furthermore, the development of such robots and their adaptation to new healthcare scenarios is both time-consuming and cost intensive. Resulting in only pilot studies in some exemplary healthcare scenarios. This contribution presents the Concept for Enabling Robots for Useful Social Interactions in Healthcare (CERUSI-Health) - including requirements, software architecture, social situative communication and socially adaptive and proactive interaction for social robots and simulation and validation and impacts of social robots. The objective of CERUSI-Health is to overcome existing obstacles to the use of social robots as assistants in the healthcare and nursing sector. The concept is based on the current state of research and thus including open research gaps, but provides guidance on how these can be addressed. Given the variety of tasks in the healthcare and nursing sector, it is possible to enable different kinds of robots to act socially by following CERUSI-Health.

Authors with CRIS profile

Nina Merz Lehrstuhl für Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik (FAPS) Thomas Wittenberg Chair of Visual Computing (LGDV) Lukas Retzer Lehrstuhl für Psychologie im Arbeitsleben Cornelia Niessen Lehrstuhl für Psychologie im Arbeitsleben Jörg Franke Lehrstuhl für Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik (FAPS) Sebastian Reitelshöfer Lehrstuhl für Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik (FAPS)

Involved external institutions

Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) DE Germany (DE) Universität Augsburg DE Germany (DE) Fraunhofer-Institut für Gießerei-, Composite- und Verarbeitungstechnik (IGCV) / Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Merz, N., Wittenberg, T., Klein, S., Lu, S., Zebisch, R., Retzer, L.,... Reitelshöfer, S. (2024). Towards Useful Social Capabilities for Robots in Healthcare. In 2024 2nd International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT) (pp. 1-6). Erlangen, DE: New York City: IEEE.

MLA:

Merz, Nina, et al. "Towards Useful Social Capabilities for Robots in Healthcare." Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT), Erlangen New York City: IEEE, 2024. 1-6.

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