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Ethics of socially assistive robots in aged-care settings: a socio-historical contextualisation.
Journal of medical ethics
Dec 9, 2019
Different embodiments of technology permeate all layers of public and private domains in society. In the public domain of aged care, attention is increasingly focused on the use of socially assistive robots (SARs) supporting caregivers and older adul...
Qualitative, Exploratory, and Multidimensional Study of Telepresence Robots for Overcoming Social Isolation of Children and Adolescents Hospitalized in Onco-Hematology.
Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology
Oct 30, 2019
Treatment of pediatric cancers and hematological malignancies requires long periods of isolation in a sterile room. To promote family connections, telepresence robots have been made available in the homes of hospitalized patients. Our aim was to eva...
Providing Aging Adults Social Robots' Companionship in Home-Based Elder Care.
Journal of healthcare engineering
Jun 4, 2019
Population aging is increasingly serious. The application of social robots for home-based elder care is an important way to solve this problem. Aging adults' demands for social robots' companionship affect robotic designs. This study aimed to investi...
Automatically identifying social isolation from clinical narratives for patients with prostate Cancer.
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 14, 2019
BACKGROUND: Social isolation is an important social determinant that impacts health outcomes and mortality among patients. The National Academy of Medicine recently recommended that social isolation be documented in electronic health records (EHR). H...
Detection of Talking in Respiratory Signals: A Feasibility Study Using Machine Learning and Wearable Textile-Based Sensors.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 31, 2018
Social isolation and loneliness are major health concerns in young and older people. Traditional approaches to monitor the level of social interaction rely on self-reports. The goal of this study was to investigate if wearable textile-based sensors c...
Potential of telepresence robots to enhance social connectedness in older adults with dementia: an integrative review of feasibility.
International psychogeriatrics
Sep 7, 2017
BACKGROUND: Socially assistive robots are increasingly used as a therapeutic tool for people with dementia, as a means to improve quality of life through social connection. This paper presents a mixed-method integrative review of telepresence robots ...
Call category classification of the isolation-induced ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by BTBR TItpr3/J mouse pups exposed to different perinatal diets.
Brain research
Sep 1, 2025
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social communication and repetitive behaviors/restricted interests that may be diagnosed as early as 2 years of age. This suggests that the pathology underlying the disorder is present du...
Explainable machine learning models predicting the risk of social isolation in older adults: a prospective cohort study.
BMC public health
May 30, 2025
INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to develop a machine learning system to predict social isolation risk in older adults.
Using a Robot to Address the Well-Being, Social Isolation, and Loneliness of Care Home Residents via Video Calls: Qualitative Feasibility Study.
JMIR formative research
May 8, 2025
BACKGROUND: About 40,000 people are living in Norwegian care homes, where a majority are living with a dementia diagnosis. Social isolation and loneliness are common issues affecting care home residents' quality of life. Due to visitation restriction...
Extracting social support and social isolation information from clinical psychiatry notes: comparing a rule-based natural language processing system and a large language model.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Social support (SS) and social isolation (SI) are social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with psychiatric outcomes. In electronic health records (EHRs), individual-level SS/SI is typically documented in narrative clinical notes r...
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