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Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Klein

Abstract: 
This course explores the potential role of emotional resp. social robotics in the social and health care sector and presents some of the experiences of therapeutic robotics in this field. In the first session main issues and developments in the social and health care sector are presented: What are current challenges from different perspectives such as politics, professionals and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities? The second session explores the role of emotional and social robotics in different application fields. I will report from current teaching research projects where artifacts such as Paro, the therapeutic seal, and Pleo, a robotic toy, have been used in recreational therapy sessions with residents in care homes and children with developmental delays. In the third session I will discuss on cultural and ethical issues of emotional and social robotics and the promotion of innovation processes in the social and health care sector.

Disciplines/Research Areas:
Anybody who is interested in application of emotional and social robotics, i.e. computer Sciences, developers, sociologists

References:

• Cook, Glenda; Klein, Barbara; Cader, Raffik; Moyle, Wendy; Marais, Sandra; Clarke, Charlotte; Reed, Jan: Potential technological solutions to promote well-being in older age. In: Newsletter of the British Society of Gerontology. Vol 20, Number: 3, July 2010
• Klein, Barbara; Cook, Glenda: Robotik in der Pflege – Entwicklungstendenzen und Potenziale. In: Public Health. In Public Health Forum. Vol 17, Issue 4, Dezember 2009
• Klein, Barbara; Cook, Glenda: Ein Freund, ein guter Freund … Was kann die elektronische Robbe? In: Dr.med Mabuse, Nr. 180, 34 Jg., Juli/August 2009 S. 34-36
• Klein, Barbara: Current situation of German care homes. In: International Journal of Older People Nursing. Vol 3, Issue 4, Dec 2008, pp.287-290
  Scholtz, Christopher: Leben mit dem Roboter – Leben im Roboter? Zur theologischen Dimension der alltäglichen Wahrnehmung des Roboterhundes Aibo; in: Magazin für Theologie und Ästhetik 35/2005. http://www.theomag.de/35/crs1.htm
• Shibata,Takanaori; Wada, Kazuyoshi; Ikeda, Yousuke; Sabanovic, Selma: Cross-Cultural Studies on Subjective Evaluation of a Seal Robot. In Advances Robotics 23 (2009) 443-458
• Wada, Kazuoshi; Shibata, Takanori: Social Effects of Robot Therapy in a Care House – Change of Social network of the Residents for One Year. In: Journal of Advances Computational intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. Vol 13, No. 4, Jul 2009; 386-392
• Wagner, Cosima: "Tele-Altenpflege" und "Robotertherapie": Leben mit Robotern als Vision und Realität für die überalterte Gesellschaft Japans. In: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ) (Hg.) Japanstudien 21 - Altern in Japan. München: Iudicium. 2009, S. 271-298 http://www.japanologie.uni-frankfurt.de/japlehre/publ-c_wagner.html

CV:

Barbara Klein is vice dean and professor for organization and management in social work at the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main – University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on the role of new technologies and the development of new application fields in the social and health care sector.
She studied sociology and economics in Mainz, London and Frankfurt and received her doctoral degree from the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. She worked more than twenty years at the Fraunhofer-Institute of Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart in national and international research and development projects in the health and care sector. She is member of the presidential forum of the BMBF/VDE AAL-Initiative, member of the ethics committee of ATEGRIS and international fellow of Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne.