A Study on Robot Motions Inducing Awareness for Elderly Care

In recent years, there are many applications based on IT for watching the elderly due to the increase of elderly population. Watching and medical care for the elderly is one of the promising application fields in IoT. Among them, detecting and preventing the risk of indoor heat stroke is an important topic. It is a crucial issue on how effectively notice the danger of heat stroke to the elderly. In this paper, we describe our trial for alerting the risk of heat stroke to the elderly people using a communication robot. We design and verify what kinds of robot motions are effective to solve the risk warning problem.