Service robots in caring for older adults: Uncovering the current conceptual and intellectual structures and future research agenda

IF 3.5 3区医学 Q2 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI:10.1016/j.archger.2025.105755

Larissa C Cesário , Priscila Barbosa , Paulo Augusto Cauchick Miguel , Glauco H.S. Mendes

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Abstract

Service robots have supported human activity, mainly caring for older adults, for many years. However, a new generation of service robots empowered by artificial intelligence and other novel technologies indicates an increasing use of service robots in our society. Thus, this article aims to synthesize and integrate current research on service robots in caring for older adults, identifying its conceptual and intellectual structures and future research opportunities. A total of 390 articles ranging from the year 1997 to 2022 were analyzed with text-mining and visualization methods. We found that this research is composed of six main themes: (i) acceptance and design of robots; (ii) social role and ethical values (iii) obstacles and criticism; (iv) effects, effectiveness, and impact of using robots; (v) therapeutic use of robots and (vi) perceptions of health professionals and services. We also identified future research opportunities which researchers can use to advance the topics of this research. Identifying research clusters and key works in this multidisciplinary research field can assist researchers in understanding the current status of this research and, after that, better positioning their studies and finding avenues to move forward with the use of service robots for caring for older adults.

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服务机器人在照顾老年人：揭示当前的概念和智力结构和未来的研究议程。

多年来，服务机器人一直支持人类活动，主要是照顾老年人。然而，由人工智能和其他新技术驱动的新一代服务机器人表明，服务机器人在我们社会中的使用越来越多。因此，本文旨在综合和整合目前关于服务机器人在老年人护理方面的研究，确定其概念和智能结构以及未来的研究机会。使用文本挖掘和可视化方法分析了从1997年到2022年的390篇文章。我们发现这项研究由六个主题组成：(i)机器人的接受和设计；（二）社会角色与伦理价值；（三）障碍与批评；（iv）使用机器人的效果、有效性和影响；（五）机器人的治疗用途和（六）对保健专业人员和服务的看法。我们还确定了未来的研究机会，研究人员可以利用这些机会来推进本研究的主题。确定这一多学科研究领域的研究集群和重点工作可以帮助研究人员了解这一研究的现状，之后，更好地定位他们的研究，并找到推进使用服务机器人照顾老年人的途径。

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Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 医学-老年医学

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.00%

发文量

198

审稿时长

16 days

期刊介绍： Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics provides a medium for the publication of papers from the fields of experimental gerontology and clinical and social geriatrics. The principal aim of the journal is to facilitate the exchange of information between specialists in these three fields of gerontological research. Experimental papers dealing with the basic mechanisms of aging at molecular, cellular, tissue or organ levels will be published. Clinical papers will be accepted if they provide sufficiently new information or are of fundamental importance for the knowledge of human aging. Purely descriptive clinical papers will be accepted only if the results permit further interpretation. Papers dealing with anti-aging pharmacological preparations in humans are welcome. Papers on the social aspects of geriatrics will be accepted if they are of general interest regarding the epidemiology of aging and the efficiency and working methods of the social organizations for the health care of the elderly.