دورية أكاديمية

The Woman with the Dog: Relationships between Pet Robots and Humans in a Danish Nursing Home for People with Dementia

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Woman with the Dog: Relationships between Pet Robots and Humans in a Danish Nursing Home for People with Dementia
المؤلفون: Felding, Simone Anna, Rosenberg, Lena, Johansson, Karin, Teupen, Sonja, Roes, Martina
المصدر: Anthropology & Aging; Vol. 45 No. 1 (2024); 20-35 ; 2374-2267
بيانات النشر: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Anthropology & Aging (E-Journal, Association for Anthropology & Gerontology - AAGE)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Dementia, Social Robots, Care, Nursing Homes, Denmark
الوصف: In this article, we explore how pet robots come into being in a Danish nursing home for people with dementia, based on five months of ethnographic fieldwork. We argue that the researcher and the robot become an assembled temporary figure in the nursing home: the woman with the dog. We show how pet robots are characterized by their fluidity and can go from being mechanical robots to living animals in a matter of seconds during interactions with nursing home residents. The social robots are fragile technologies that disappear and cease to be used if people in the nursing home stop caring for them. Through relationships, the pet robots come into being together with other actors in the nursing home – a process that requires tinkering (Mol, Moser, and Pols 2010) and flexibility from those working with the robots. We argue that the woman with the dog can develop caring relations with the residents, but although there are hopes that pet robots are one of the technologies that can save a welfare state and care system under pressure, this is not something that can be done by the pet robots alone. Rather, the robots need care and tinkering to become embedded in the nursing home.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
العلاقة: http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/article/view/485/688Test; http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/article/view/485Test
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2024.485
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2024.485Test
http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/article/view/485Test
حقوق: Copyright (c) 2024 Simone Anna Felding, Prof. Lena Rosenberg, Dr. Karin Johansson, Dr. Sonja Teupen, Prof. Dr. Martina Roes ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.3F6D7492
قاعدة البيانات: BASE