Stead - Companion Care
The project is a care app and embodiment to support care for a woman with Cerebral Palsy.
Core trick
Uses a child-like robot face as a sensing endpoint that logs daily events and feeds role-specific narrative summaries to a care dashboard.
Description
The project is a care app and embodiment to support care for a woman with Cerebral Palsy. It has 2 aspects.
1. The care app is designed to help manage mental load and tracking of daily occurrences for the individual. There are various views on the app including "Mom", "Jane" the Personal Care attendant" and the doctor. There is an ability to chat with the tracking/sensing data from the embodiment - with particular types of narratives depending on the user.
2 The embodiment. The Innate MARS robot is used as the sensor/tracker/interactive point for Ruby. She has a very child like demeanor and responds well to "cute" things and would not be one to "talk" to a phone or non-faced embodiment such as an Alexa.