Expectations and Sensemaking : Older People and Care Robots

• We do not yet know how the robotization of eldercare will unfold, but one thing is clear: technology mediates human practices and experiences [1]. As such, care robots will co-shape the actions of care givers and older people and influence the perceptions and experiences of old age. The robotization of eldercare means that it is essential for developers, policy makers, and researchers to become increasingly aware of the intertwined and implicit expectations that older people impose on care robots. This paper both zooms in towards older people’s individual expectations and zooms out towards expectation configurations at a group level and the expectation imagery of care robots in future eldercare.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

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Care robots

Sensemaking

Individual expectations

Expectation configurations

Expectation imagery

Older people

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