ITC571 Project Brief: Exploring the Use of Robots in Healthcare

This project brief outlines a project exploring the use of robots in the healthcare sector, focusing on addressing staff shortages and improving patient care. The project aims to investigate the potential of robots in assisting the elderly, facilitating communication, and handling critical medical situations. The scope excludes automated decision-making processes. The project will use articles and journals, patient opinions, and healthcare officials' insights to evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of robots. The brief includes a problem statement, project objectives, deliverables, and resources. References include research on service robots in hospitals and the development of device management systems for healthcare assistive robots. The student also provides their background, project title, and blog site address.

Running head: USE OF ROBOTS IN HEALTHCARE
USE OF ROBOTS IN HEALTHCARE
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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About me: My name is [please insert your name]. I am currently studying/working in
[please write the name of the university or working sector]. My specialization is in
[please mention the field of your specialization]. As I am interested about technology, the
concept of using robot in the health care sector seems innovative for me.
Project Title: Use of robot in health care sector.
Blog Site Address: [please insert blog site address]
Project Problem Domain: Among different problems in health care sector, one of the
main problem is lack of staffs. In order to mitigate this problem use of robot can be an
innovative idea. The key research question in this context is concerned if the use of robots
will help to fill the gap due to the lack of staffs in health care sectors and provide a
fruitful outcome.
Background/Context/Description: Workplace project
Project Aim/Objectives: To understand the possibility and outcome of using robots for
health care sector.
Scope: 1. The use of robots will be evaluated in helping the aged patients.
2. The use of robots will be evaluated for the communication purpose in the health
care sector.
3. Use of robots in critical medical situation.
Not in scope: The use of robots are not evaluated in case of automated decision making
process.
Deliverables/Outcomes: For finding the outcome of the project a study can be done on
the use of robots from different articles. From the discussion the outcome or the findings
will indicate the effectiveness and limitations of using robots in the health care sector.
Resources: 1.Articles or journals regarding the use of robots in the health care sector.
2. Opinions of patients.
3. Opinions of the health care officials.

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Bibliography
Mettler, T., Sprenger, M., & Winter, R. (2017). Service robots in hospitals: new
perspectives on niche evolution and technology affordances. European Journal of
Information Systems, 26(5), 451-468.
Zhang, S., Ahn, H. S., Lim, J. Y., Lee, M. H., & MacDonald, B. A. (2017, November).
Design and implementation of a device management system for healthcare
assistive robots: sensor manager system version 2. In International Conference on
Social Robotics (pp. 536-545). Springer, Cham.