| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥8,970,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,070,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through both qualitative and quantitative studies on dance performance and communication robots for elderly people with dementia, we have explored the examination of caring possibilities of embodiment of these communication facilities. We have organized forty-four times dance performance workshops by using hybrid forms between Socratic dialogue and collaborative dance practices with choreographer cum dancer at some special elderly nursing homes. Almost all performances were recorded by observation tools and were analyzed for accounting posture resonance behavior between dancer and patients. We have had also practical implementations of remote-operated android robot, (c)Telenoid, in nursing contexts for dementia patients. We have confirmed that the interrelation between bodily expression-sensitivity and communicative-empathy can be important factor for caring elderly people with dementia.
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