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Recommendations for the Development of a Robotic Drinking and Eating Aid - An Ethnographic Study

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Being able to live independently and self-determined in one’s own home is a crucial factor or human dignity and preservation of self-worth. For people with severe physical impairments who cannot use their limbs for every day tasks, living in their own home is only possible with assistance from others. The inability to move arms and hands makes it hard to take care of oneself, e.g. drinking and eating independently. In this paper, we investigate how 15 participants with disabilities consume food and drinks. We report on interviews, participatory observations, and analyzed the aids they currently use. Based on our findings, we derive a set of recommendations that supports researchers and practitioners in designing future robotic drinking and eating aids for people with disabilities.

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Acknowledgement

We would like to thank all study participants and their assistants for their valuable opinions and time. The authors are also grateful for the support of the Center for Paraplegic Patients Hamburg, the Locked-in-Syndrom e.V. Berlin, and the State Association of the German Society for Multiple Sclerosis Hessen e.V.. This research is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, FKZ: 16SV7866K and 16SV7868).

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    Max Pascher & Jens Gerken

  2. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Max Pascher & Stefan Schneegass

  3. Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Annalies Baumeister & Barbara Klein

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Pascher, M., Baumeister, A., Schneegass, S., Klein, B., Gerken, J. (2021). Recommendations for the Development of a Robotic Drinking and Eating Aid - An Ethnographic Study. In: Ardito, C., et al. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85623-6_21

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