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Developing A Flexible System For A Friendly Robot To Ease Dementia (Fred) Using Cloud Technologies And Software Design Patterns, Robert James Bray
Developing A Flexible System For A Friendly Robot To Ease Dementia (Fred) Using Cloud Technologies And Software Design Patterns, Robert James Bray
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In this work, we designed two prototypes for a friendly robot to ease dementia (FRED). This affordable social robot is designed to provide company to older adults with cognitive decline, create reminders for important events and tasks, like taking medication, and providing cognitive stimulus through games. This project combines several cloud technologies including speech-to-text, cloud data storage, and chat generation in order to provide high level interactions with a social robot. Software design patterns were employed in the creation of the software to produce flexible code base that can sustain platform changes easily, including the framework used for the graphical …