Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold significant promise to support the
independence, well-being and safety of older adults living with frailty or dementia at home …

Dementia has serious consequences for the daily life of the person affected due to the
decline in the their cognitive, behavioral and functional abilities. Caring for people living with …

Participatory robot design projects with older adults often use multiple sessions to
encourage design feedback and active participation from users. Prior projects have …

Healthcare workers (HCWs) face many challenges during bedside care that impede team
collaboration and often lead to poor patient outcomes. Robots have the potential to support …

Many emerging technologies are expected to reconfigure workplaces, and serious concerns
have already been raised about their impact on workers, especially those who are already …

The tremendous development in large language models (LLM) has led to a new wave of
innovations and applications and yielded research results that were initially forecast to take …

Introduction: Older adults are engaging more and more with voice-based agent and social
robot technologies, and roboticists are increasingly designing interactions for these systems …

Reminding is often identified as a central function of socially assistive robots in the
healthcare sector. The robotic reminders are supposed to help people with memory …

Collaborative robots are increasingly deployed alongside humans in factories, hospitals,
schools, and other domains to enhance teamwork and efficiency. Systems that seamlessly …

This doctoral research aims to enhance the Quality of Life (QoL) of People with Dementia
(PwD) by developing a personalized musical robot to provide support through music and …