Engaging citizen stakeholders on the topic of social robotics in healthcare
R. A. Søraa, Y. Cheng, M. Kharas, S. Moratti
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AbstractSocial robotics is an area of gerontechnology that holds much promise to older adults (Broekens et al., 2009; Merkel & Kucharski, 2019; Peine et al., 2021). In the European Union Horizon 2020 project Robotics4EU we have investigated how a diverse selection of citizen stakeholders reflect on the possibility of robots playing a larger role in their life, especially regarding health and care. The average citizen has little knowledge about robots and little say in how they are developed or implemented. Robotics4EU sets out to change that, by making robot knowledge more accessible to a wider societal audience, to gain citizen feedback on what robots can and cannot do. These sorts of investigations are an important aspect of the shift to a more technologized welfare models for ageing societies, especially in Western and East Asian countries.Keywords: citizen engagement, public consultation, robotics, end-users, focus group
R. A. Søraa, Y. Cheng, M. Kharas, S. Moratti (2022). Engaging citizen stakeholders on the topic of social robotics in healthcare. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.574.opp1