Fostering Well-being in Care with the Nautical Designed Plant Watering Robot

Philipp Graf, Kevin Lefeuvre, Oskar Palinko, Lakshadeep Naik, Christian Zarp, Andreas Bischof, Eva Hornecker, Norbert Krüger

2022

Abstract

The well-being of older people in care homes does not only rely on health and bodily needs but also includes spiritual or social needs. The presence of plants and distraction from everyday routines are two rarely addressed issues in this regard. Having those in mind, we developed the concept of the ’Plant Watering Robot’ (PWR), a robotic device that has a double purpose: to water plants and serve as an attraction to observers thereby creating amusement. It is designed as a little ship inhabited by a small ’captain’ that is displayed as being in charge of the device’s actions. The pilot interacts with various synchronized elements building up a narrative of being in charge of watering the plants. We first report on related work before describing the interaction concept in more detail. We then elaborate the technical implementation of the PWR focussing on mechanical and software aspects.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Graf P., Lefeuvre K., Palinko O., Naik L., Zarp C., Bischof A., Hornecker E. and Krüger N. (2022). Fostering Well-being in Care with the Nautical Designed Plant Watering Robot. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 2: HUCAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-555-5, SciTePress, pages 255-261. DOI: 10.5220/0010909000003124

in Bibtex Style

@conference{hucapp22,
author={Philipp Graf and Kevin Lefeuvre and Oskar Palinko and Lakshadeep Naik and Christian Zarp and Andreas Bischof and Eva Hornecker and Norbert Krüger},
title={Fostering Well-being in Care with the Nautical Designed Plant Watering Robot},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 2: HUCAPP},
year={2022},
pages={255-261},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010909000003124},
isbn={978-989-758-555-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 2: HUCAPP
TI - Fostering Well-being in Care with the Nautical Designed Plant Watering Robot
SN - 978-989-758-555-5
AU - Graf P.
AU - Lefeuvre K.
AU - Palinko O.
AU - Naik L.
AU - Zarp C.
AU - Bischof A.
AU - Hornecker E.
AU - Krüger N.
PY - 2022
SP - 255
EP - 261
DO - 10.5220/0010909000003124
PB - SciTePress