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==Week 3==
Minutes May 15th
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    joris and mirielle were absent. the teachers expressed their concerns about
    never having seen mirielle.
</p>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    Because the wiki wasn’t updated the meeting started of with explaining what
    we had done this week. The biggest problem right now is that our problem
    statement is still too broad.
</p>
<p dir="ltr">
    a few options were suggested but we are encouraged to think of our own:
</p>
<ul>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            changing the sheats
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            getting in to a wheel chair
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            fluffing pillows
        </p>
    </li>
</ul>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    We have to chose how healthy the person is and why we want to lift him
    (where does the person need to go, it is difficult to put someone in a
    chair). We have to make a scenario explain why we have chosen that.
</p>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    It would also be fine if our end result is a prototype that lifts a potato
    sack, if we can explain why it is relevant.
</p>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    the deadline for a more confined goal on the wiki page is 16-5-2017
</p>
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    after the meeting meeting
</p>
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    wat we hebben:
</p>
<ul>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            computer vision
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            sociaal
        </p>
    </li>
    <ul>
        <li dir="ltr">
            <p dir="ltr">
                veilig
            </p>
        </li>
        <li dir="ltr">
            <p dir="ltr">
                comfortable
            </p>
        </li>
    </ul>
</ul>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    redenen voor optillen
</p>
<ul>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            bed verschonen
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            kussen op kloppen
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            van liggend naar staand (bestaat dit al?)
        </p>
    </li>
</ul>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    conclusie:
</p>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    Senario
</p>
<ul>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            liggend naar staand
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            gezond maar zwak persoon
        </p>
    </li>
</ul>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    inleveren
</p>
<ul>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            serie van handelingen om iemand op te tillen
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            algemeen design (vorm van de armen, aantal armen)
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            script
        </p>
    </li>
    <li dir="ltr">
        <p dir="ltr">
            resultaten met uitleg
        </p>
    </li>
</ul>
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==Preparations for interview, identifying values== <br />Interview<br />Identify the context, user and tasks of the robot<br />What are important values for the care givers?<br />What are important values for the care receivers?<br />Can there be linked concrete norms to these values?<br />
==Preparations for interview, identifying values== <br />Interview<br />Identify the context, user and tasks of the robot<br />What are important values for the care givers?<br />What are important values for the care receivers?<br />Can there be linked concrete norms to these values?<br />
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==Problem definition and setting==
==Problem definition and setting==
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<p dir="ltr">
     Introduction: general goal
     Introduction:
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</p>
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     All around the world, robots are being introduced in daily life. In
     All around the world, robots are being introduced in daily life. In
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     disabled persons to be more mobile and enable them to move around freely.
     disabled persons to be more mobile and enable them to move around freely.
     Take for example the scenario where a person has to get up from his or her
     Take for example the scenario where a person has to get up from his or her
     bed and be moved into a wheelchair. Of iets anders, maak er iets moois van
     bed to get up and start the day. Where in earlier days the manual lifting
    ;) Where in earlier days the manual lifting of a person by two nurses was
    of a person by two nurses was required, the goal is that with present day
    required, nowadays a hoist for transferring people is used regularly. In
     technology a robot could be used to lift a person for laying down to
     the past couple of years, Japan has been developing a robot that can
     standing up in a safe and comfortable manner. For this we will improve
    autonomically lift a person on command. This state-of-the-art technology is
     designs like the RoBear.
     not yet to be introduced on a large scale in nursing homes. Why, is what
    our goal is to find out. In this project, our subject of interest will be
     this so-called RoBear.
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     RoBear
     The RoBear is a robot that can lift people out of bed. It moves around on
    wheels and has to big arms that are covered in cushions. its head looks
    like a bear's head in a cartoonish way hence the name.
</p>
</p>
<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     Iemand anders: wat is de RoBear, wat kan deze doen, etc.
     However this robot is not yet perfect. A nurse has to help every step of
    the way and it cannot help to stand if the patient is lying down.
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
    With this project, we would like to find out whether the RoBear could fit
    in a nursing home, where people live with some degree of freedom and are
    regularly checked upon. Later, we will make more concrete goals on how to
    achieve this in general.
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     Care centre
     Information gathering
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     The interview will be held with ?? nurses of the RSZK, which stands short
     To see how in what degree lifting a person is a problem in healthcare and
    for Regionale Stichting Zorgcentra de Kempen. This institute facilitates
    how it is coped with right now an interview will be held. A few nurses of
    home care and help at home, but also consists of several nursing homes. In
    the RSZK, which stands short for Regionale Stichting Zorgcentra de Kempen
    the latter, the distinguishment is made between “verzorgingstehuis”, where
    will be interviewed as they have more expertise on this subject. This
    people live that cannot live independently due to old age, illness or a
    institute facilitates home care and help at home, but also consists of
    handicap, and “verpleegtehuis”, where intensive care is given to people
    several nursing homes. In the latter, the distinguishment is made between
    that require heavy medical treatments because of severe physical or
    two types of nursing homes the first, where people live that cannot live
    psychological handicaps, for example after cerebral hemorrhage or dementia.
    independently due to old age, illness or a handicap, and the second, where
    intensive care is given to people that require heavy medical treatments
    because of severe physical or psychological handicaps, for example after
    cerebral hemorrhage or dementia.
</p>
</p>
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     people.
     people.
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
     Setting: movie from RSZK Mariahof te Reusel.
     Setting: movie from RSZK Mariahof te Reusel.
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     </a>
     </a>
</p>
</p>
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     This nursing home is inhabited by people that live semi-independently, but
     This nursing home is inhabited by people that live semi-independently, but
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     client.
     client.
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</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
     Why introduce the RoBear?
     Why introduce a lifting robot?
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     One of the care tasks is to transfer a person from A to B. For example, two
     One of the tasks of the nurses is to help the clients out of bed in the
    nurses need to help a client to get out of bed and into a (wheel)chair in
     morning. The lifting which is involved in this can cause physical injury
     the morning. This involves the care practice of lifting, which can cause
     for the nurses. Such as back-, hip- and knee wear.
     physical injury for the nurses. Interview
</p>
</p>
<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     Therefore, our aim is to introduce the RoBear in the care facility, to
     Another problem is that there are not enough nurses and the clients cannot
     relieve the nurses from some of the more harmful tasks in healthcare. Wat
     get up at the time they want. This lifting robot should give them more
     is er dan zo harmful? Ga in op interview
     autonomy.
</p>
</p>
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<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     Hoe gebeurt tillen nu? Waaarom willen we dit verbeteren? Waarom denken we
     Goal
    de RoBear te kunnen introduceren in deze zorginstelling?
</p>
</p>
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<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    Why can’t we introduce the RoBear in this care facility?
</p>
<p dir="ltr">
    Het probleem aangeven + verschillen met normale persoonslift
</p>
<br/>
<p dir="ltr">
    Goals: general/specific
</p>
<p dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">
     In particular, we aim for improvement of the care practice of lifting a
     In particular, we aim for improvement of the care practice of lifting a
     patient in a safe and comfortable way with a certain degree of autonomy.
     patient in a safe and comfortable way with a certain degree of autonomy.
     Primarily, the Robear must be able to lift a client in a safe way, which
     The robot must be able to lift a client in a safe way, which entails that
     entails that the client can under no condition fall off of the Robear when
     the client can under no condition fall off of the Robear when only one
     only one nurse is present to guide the client in the arms of the RoBear. In
     nurse is present to guide the client in the arms of the RoBear. In a later
     a later stadium, the RoBear should be able to lift a client safely without
     stadium, the RoBear should be able to lift a client safely without any
     any supervision. However, this might be a bridge too far. In particular, we
     supervision. However, this might be a bridge too far. In particular, we
     would like to examine and improve the way of lifting, since in our opinion
     would like to examine and improve the way of lifting.
    the lifting with a piece of cloth attached to two arms might not be most
    efficient. Secondly, the goal is to make a person feel safe and comfortable
    while lifting. This includes the amount of pressure points with the person
    being lifted. The third item to be improved is connected with the first,
    namely that the RoBear can lift a person more efficiently and more
    importantly, on its own. Improve at own initiative
</p>
</p>
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    Now the question is: how will we achieve these goals? First of all,
    research will be done on how to lift a person efficiently, by means of an
    interview with nurses who perform this care practice on a daily base. Then,
    we will try to improve the way of lifting people for the RoBear with this
    information, taking into account the actions nurses take in order to make a
    person feel comfortable. The next item is to improve the RoBear by means of
    body position detection of the client. This way, a nurse can fully focus on
    the client while the RoBear exactly knows how to perform the action of
    lifting the client. Dit kan zoveel concreter…
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Revision as of 16:16, 16 May 2017

Preliminary planning

Contents

  • Planning

  • Minutes by week

  • Subjects

    • Computer vision

    • Appearance

    • Behaviour


Planning


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Week

Dates

What

Whom

1

24-30 April

Problem definition

Context

Planning

Presentation

Research about state of the art

  • Computer Vision (CV)

  • Appearance

  • Behaviour

Make appointment with secondary users

Brainstorm: what to put in interview/questionnaire?

27/4 deadline planning

24/4 meeting 1

25/4 meeting 2

All

All

M & E

J & F

J & B

M & F

E & F

E

TBD

M & E

M & E

M & E

2

1-7 May

First presentation (max. 10 min)

Computer Vision (CV)

  • Recognition of humans

  • Recognition of faces

Appearance

  • Prepare interview/questionnaire with nurses in home care

Behaviour

  • Literature study on human robot interaction

J & F

J & B

E & F

M

3

8-14 May

Computer Vision (CV)

  • Recognise people in different positions

Appearance

  • Conduct interview with team of nurses

  • Process results of interview

Behaviour

  • Come up with features based on interview and literature study

J & B

E & F

M

4

15-21 May

Implementation results interview:

Decide upon features of robot

All

5

22-28 May

Bring all the components together

Preliminary design

Seek flaws

All

6

29 May to 4th of June

Decide upon final design,

give descriptions and make diagrams

All

7

5-11 June

final design Discussion Conclusion

Extra time if necessary

All

8

12th of June

Final presentation

All



Task, Who+deadline, Duration, Finished? Planning, ME 27/4, 1:00 Presentation, JF 30/4, 2:00 Research, decide which subject to discuss; All 1/5; 6:00

Week 1

Minutes 24/4

Discussed: Ellen and Mireille looking for what is needed in healthcare, asking nurses, looking in the feeld where the problems occur with caring for people and people caring for themselves. Everyone will look what is state of the art about lifting people autonomously, what can we improve about this technology and what will be the future challenges Next meeting: 25/4 12:30 Fixed meetings: every monday 9:00-12:30

Minutes 25/4

what subject do we want to choose concretely? The “robear” is very similar to what we had in vision, it can lift up people. This robear doesn’t have robot vision yet, so we can see if we can improve this aspect so that we can lift up a person in every position. Is this not a too small concept? what can our end goal be? making an autonomous robot which can lift people what do we need to accomplish? who are the users? first, secondary users knowing what is state of the art, what do people think of the current lift possibilities how does it need to look like design a concept knot cutting we take the robear as state of the art, we want to create a lifting robot that can operate autonomously without supervision, which has an appearance which people appreciate points to do: specify how the robear exactly operates what are the points to improve, what is missing doing field research with the secondary users (week 2) doing field research about our final concept designing the appearance simulating the navigation value sensitive design computer vision ...

with every point we: search the state of the art we identify what is missing or can be improved we design a better solution

combining every component to create our final robot on paper

Tasks: Joris and Frouke will make the presentation and will presentate on monday Ellen and Mireille will make the planning specific and in detail

Week 2

Minutes May 4th Present: Frouke, Ellen, Bram (first half), Mireille (second half), Joris (second half)

Topic: interview Discussed: what questions are relevant? Take out double questions, don’t spend too long on nurses’ complaints/physical injuries. What questions should be added? More questions about emotions of client and how to reassure them while moving. Questions about improvement of RoBear: user interface with touch screen/sound. What functions does the nurse think should be added? Discussing values. What values are important? How can we directly link norms, rules of conduct or the robot’s behaviour to these values?

Topic: user interface on robot Search for articles on communicating with client. How a robot should approach a person, give information, use sounds and commands. An extra which we will not use: robot that takes initiative in lifting person, e.g. wake up function

Topic: Computer vision: detect person and its body parts Programme can recognize a person’s face and its body in standing position To do: body in other positions (lie down, kneeling, …)


To put on the wiki: Preliminary interview, minutes, progress on computer vision (short description)

To do: Think of concrete questions to ask the supervisors. Discuss interview, are there any improvements? Short demo on c.v.


Week 3

Minutes May 15th

joris and mirielle were absent. the teachers expressed their concerns about never having seen mirielle.


Because the wiki wasn’t updated the meeting started of with explaining what we had done this week. The biggest problem right now is that our problem statement is still too broad.

a few options were suggested but we are encouraged to think of our own:

  • changing the sheats

  • getting in to a wheel chair

  • fluffing pillows


We have to chose how healthy the person is and why we want to lift him (where does the person need to go, it is difficult to put someone in a chair). We have to make a scenario explain why we have chosen that.


It would also be fine if our end result is a prototype that lifts a potato sack, if we can explain why it is relevant.


the deadline for a more confined goal on the wiki page is 16-5-2017


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after the meeting meeting


wat we hebben:

  • computer vision

  • sociaal

    • veilig

    • comfortable


redenen voor optillen

  • bed verschonen

  • kussen op kloppen

  • van liggend naar staand (bestaat dit al?)


conclusie:


Senario

  • liggend naar staand

  • gezond maar zwak persoon


inleveren

  • serie van handelingen om iemand op te tillen

  • algemeen design (vorm van de armen, aantal armen)

  • script

  • resultaten met uitleg


==Preparations for interview, identifying values==
Interview
Identify the context, user and tasks of the robot
What are important values for the care givers?
What are important values for the care receivers?
Can there be linked concrete norms to these values?

Work done beforehand:

Care robot:
Care for persons
“Designed for use in home, hospital, or other settings to assist in, support, or provide care for the sick, disabled, young, elderly or otherwise vulnerable persons” (Vallor 2011)
Tasks
Assisting in caregiving tasks
Monitoring a patient’s health status
Providing social care or companionships
Some level of autonomy
Require minimal human input, but are still human-operated
“interpretive flexibility”: a robot is defined by its context, users and task for use
Three dimensions to ethics of robots:
Ethical systems built in robots
Ethical systems of people who design robots
Ethics of how people treat robots
Care (4 stages, Tronto)
Caring about (recognizing one is in need and what those needs are)
Care taking (taking responsibility for the meeting of said needs)
Care giving (fulfilling an action to meet the needs of an individual)
Care receiving (recognition of a change in function of the individual in need)
Moral elements (corresponding)
attentiveness
responsibility
competence
responsiveness
Needs of care receiver ← → Needs of care giver

Context
Nursing home (e.g. critical care ward for people with dementia)
Values
Safety (of the care receiver and care giver)
care receiver: prevent injury from falling, being squished, choking, being trapped, …
care giver: prevent injury from being run over, being trapped, catching care receiver, …
Trust
Touch
Hands-on care, warm and seemingly “safe” hands/arms
Linked values:
Respect
Intimacy
Human dignity
Patient satisfaction
Nurse satisfaction
Physical wellbeing patient
Psychological wellbeing patient
Compassion
Empathy
Patient-nurse relationship
Competence

Interview

Interview

Identify the context, user and tasks of the robot

What are important values for the care givers?

What are important values for the care receivers?

Can there be linked concrete norms to these values?



What to check with the nurses:

Functie:

Wat is uw functie? (Verzorgende in thuiszorg, ...)

Op welke afdeling werkt u?


Tilmethoden

Scenario: Wanneer een cliënt moet worden verplaatst van bed naar de badkamer, welke methode gebruikt u het meest? Beschrijf de methode stap voor stap.

Als een cliënt (het aangeeft dat hij) zich niet op zijn gemak voelt bij het optillen, hoe stelt u deze dan gerust?


Klachten

Levert u vaak fysieke inspanningen door het verplaatsen van cliënten?

Wat maakt het optillen van cliënten zo lastig?

Heeft u last van klachten die veroorzaakt worden door het verplaatsen van cliënten?

In welke mate verhinderen deze klachten u in het dagelijkse leven?


Scenario’s

Bespreek een paar cliënten in de zorg waarmee u ervaringen heeft met het gebruik van de tillift.


Tillift (verzorgende)

Hoe vaak komt u in aanraking met een tillift?

Beschrijf uw ervaring met de tillift.

In hoeverre levert u nog fysieke inspanning bij het gebruik van de tillift?

Welke aspecten vindt u positief aan de tillift?

Wat zijn de nadelen van de tillift?

Geeft u de voorkeur aan het gebruik van een tillift?


Tillift (cliënt)

Hoe ervaart de cliënt het optillen met de hand? En met de tillift?

Geeft de cliënt de voorkeur aan het optillen door een verzorgende of met de tillift?

Ervaart de cliënt geregeld angst bij het gebruik van de tillift?

Ervaart de cliënt geregeld irritatie bij het gebruik van de tillift?

Ervaart de cliënt geregeld ongemak bij het gebruik van de tillift?


Relatie verzorgende-cliënt

Is vertrouwen een belangrijk onderdeel in het verplaatsen van een cliënt?

Hoe is uw relatie/band met de gemiddelde cliënt?

Draagt deze relatie bij in het vertrouwen in het tilproces?

Wanneer u gebruik maakt van de tillift in plaats van het zelf tillen, schaadt dit het vertrouwen van de cliënt in het tillen?


RoBear

Beschrijf de RoBear

Hoe staat u tegenover deze technologie?

Wat vindt u de voordelen van deze technologie?

Wat vindt u de nadelen van deze technologie?

Hoe denkt u dat dit de relatie verzorgende-zorgbehoevende beïnvloedt?


Verbeteringen

Hoe denkt u dat de RoBear verbeterd kan worden op gebruiksgemak?

Hoe denkt u dat de RoBear verbeterd kan worden zodat het comfortabeler is voor de cliënt?

Zijn er bijkomstigheden waar we niet aan hebben gedacht, als de cliënt autonoom kan opstaan?



Toekomstscenario

Met het vorderen van de technologie, zien we de volgende toekomstscenario: de RoBear kan volledig autonoom assisteren in het optillen van een zorgbehoevende, zonder dat daarbij een verzorger bij te pas komt. Zo kunnen mensen later een RoBear thuis hebben en zijn er minder zorgmomenten nodig voor cliënten die niet zelfstandig uit bed kunnen komen.

Hoe kijkt u hier tegenaan?

Denkt u dat de cliënt positief of negatief staat tegenover een vergrote autonomie door de RoBear? Op wat voor manier?

Wat betekent dit voor de sociale interactie met de verzorger?

Wat betekent dit voor de cliënt betreffende het contact met de buitenwereld?

Denkt u dat een oudere zich hierdoor sneller eenzaam voelt?


Zeehondje: Paro

Beschrijving van Paro, het robotzeehondje dat steeds populairder wordt

Wat vindt u van deze manier van het geruststellen van ouderen?

Zou dit in uw ogen kunnen worden toegepast bij de RoBear?


Gebruikersinterface van de RoBear

Het volgende voorstel is: de RoBear kan worden verbeterd door een gebruikersinterface toe te voegen aan de RoBear, in de vorm van een (touchscreen) scherm en geluid. Zo kan de robot informatie geven over de cliënt (denk aan lichaamshouding detecteren, opdrachten geven, vertellen wat er gaat gebeuren, waarschuwingen geven, een filmpje/demonstratie geven van de handeling die de RoBear gaat verrichten, smileys: hoe heeft u dit ervaren?, …)

Wat denkt u hiervan?

Wat zoudt u voorstellen om toe te voegen aan dit gebruikersinterface?


In welke mate zijn de volgende waarden voor u van belang? Hoe brengt u deze in verband met de RoBear? veiligheid, respect, vertrouwen, functionaliteit




Sources:




Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662860/ http://dmeforpeace.org/sites/default/files/Boyce_In%20Depth%20Interviews.pdf


Problem definition and setting

Introduction:

All around the world, robots are being introduced in daily life. In healthcare, the prospective is that robots will facilitate elderly or disabled persons to be more mobile and enable them to move around freely. Take for example the scenario where a person has to get up from his or her bed to get up and start the day. Where in earlier days the manual lifting of a person by two nurses was required, the goal is that with present day technology a robot could be used to lift a person for laying down to standing up in a safe and comfortable manner. For this we will improve designs like the RoBear.

The RoBear is a robot that can lift people out of bed. It moves around on wheels and has to big arms that are covered in cushions. its head looks like a bear's head in a cartoonish way hence the name.

However this robot is not yet perfect. A nurse has to help every step of the way and it cannot help to stand if the patient is lying down.

Information gathering

To see how in what degree lifting a person is a problem in healthcare and how it is coped with right now an interview will be held. A few nurses of the RSZK, which stands short for Regionale Stichting Zorgcentra de Kempen will be interviewed as they have more expertise on this subject. This institute facilitates home care and help at home, but also consists of several nursing homes. In the latter, the distinguishment is made between two types of nursing homes the first, where people live that cannot live independently due to old age, illness or a handicap, and the second, where intensive care is given to people that require heavy medical treatments because of severe physical or psychological handicaps, for example after cerebral hemorrhage or dementia.

For this project, we will consider the RoBear as a robot that could be integrated in the nursing homes of the first type. These home centres consist of several care apartments, that are mostly inhabited by elderly people.

Setting: movie from RSZK Mariahof te Reusel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=f_vElmn44Ms"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=f_vElmn44Ms </a>

This nursing home is inhabited by people that live semi-independently, but receive care they require with some daily tasks, such as help with showering, help with going to bed, medical stockings et cetera. The general lay out of the rooms is similar, all include a bed/living-room with bathroom and an own kitchenette. The room itself is not furnished, so each client is free to place furniture at his or her own liking. However, the arrangement of the furniture must be conform rules that are introduced so that nurses are not impeded in their movement while caring for their client.

Why introduce a lifting robot?

One of the tasks of the nurses is to help the clients out of bed in the morning. The lifting which is involved in this can cause physical injury for the nurses. Such as back-, hip- and knee wear.

Another problem is that there are not enough nurses and the clients cannot get up at the time they want. This lifting robot should give them more autonomy.

Goal


In particular, we aim for improvement of the care practice of lifting a patient in a safe and comfortable way with a certain degree of autonomy. The robot must be able to lift a client in a safe way, which entails that the client can under no condition fall off of the Robear when only one nurse is present to guide the client in the arms of the RoBear. In a later stadium, the RoBear should be able to lift a client safely without any supervision. However, this might be a bridge too far. In particular, we would like to examine and improve the way of lifting.


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