Adaptive user-centered design for safety and comfort of physical human nursing - Care robot interaction

Abstract

Nowadays serving robots are more and more popular in human society. However, most of them are designed for the special people or for the special scenario. There is little robot designed to apply appropriate interface for different people that can accommodate age-related and body-related in physical interaction. We propose that user-centered design should be used in physical Human-robot interaction. In this research, we take a nursing-care robot as an example. Based on the results of the experiment, we proved that the distance between two arms of nursing-care robot, which affected the comfort and safety of patient, should be applied by different patients with different body length. We try to build the adaptive human robot interface based on the physical properties of people, such as body length. This study is an attempt to explore the adaptive human robot interaction and contributes to giving insights and implications for the future design of general serving robot. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.