• 노인간호학회지
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• 제20권sup1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of using intelligent robot based nursing practice as discussed in previous research and also, to propose directions for robot care for elders. Methods: For this study 28 previous researches using robots in health care field were reviewed and related research trends introduced. Results: Robot applications in the healthcare field were mainly for rehabilitation, surgery, interaction, and nursing assistance through robotics. Especially types of robot include pet type robots, humanoid robots, surgical robots, rehabilitation robots, robot suit and entertainment robots with monitors. The research participants were patients with dementia and institutionalized elderly people. It was found that a human-robot interaction was effective from physical, mental, emotional and social aspects. Conclusion: Robots can be used for various purposes such as nursing assistance, patient health promotion and education. It is necessary to reduce the human burden of care work using robots and to introduce robot care programs which can meet the needs of elders. Therefore, korean nurses should make efforts to change their practice to new geriatric nursing through repeated research based on the scientific data.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the behavioral responses to a robot pet in pre-school children. Method: This activity for children was conducted for 5 days at a kindergarten and each session lasted 30 minutes. In order to measure children's temperament, Chun Heeyoung's Temperament Rating Scale was used. In addition, to investigate the behavioral responses to a robot pet, each session was videotaped. The videotape data was analyzed according to child-robot interaction. Result: On the average, subjects scored highest in emotionality and lowest in activity for the temperamental subscale. The videotape data revealed verbal, positive nonverbal, and negative nonverbal interaction. Conclusions: These results suggest that child-robot interaction reflects temperamental characteristics, therefore, to develop a nursing intervention program using a robot, it is necessary to consider individual differences and recreational factors to grab children's interest.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.72-82
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• 2021

Purpose: This study used a mixed methods research design in an attempt to verify the effects of robot-assisted rehabilitation on the gait ability of stroke patients with hemiplegia, and thereby further understand the benefits and challenges of stroke patients' experiences relying on robot-assisted rehabilitation. Methods: An exploratory sequential mixed methods study design was used in order to combine both quantitative and qualitative data. For the quantitative data collection, a total of 30 stroke patients with hemiplegia were recruited from one rehabilitation hospital. Qualitative data were collected through individual interviews using semi-structured questionnaires for a group of 15 patients who were currently undergoing robot-assisted rehabilitation. The data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Results: As a result of the quantitative analysis, there were significant differences between the two groups in terms of daily living activity patterns, total number of steps, and average walking speed. As a result of the qualitative analysis, the four main themes derived consisted of, 'curiosity about the usage of robot-assisted rehabilitation,' 'pleasure experienced while using the robots,' 'insufficient information about robots,' and 'a lack of education about robot-assisted rehabilitation.' Conclusions: Robot-assisted rehabilitation had a significant effect on the walking ability of stroke patients with hemiplegia. Additionally, stroke patients with hemiplegia experienced difficulty during the course of their robot-assisted rehabilitation, due to a lack of sufficient information on correct usage techniques. These quantitative and qualitative findings could provide the basic foundation for the development of an educational program on robot-assisted rehabilitation.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.465-470
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• 2021

본 연구는 로봇시스템화를 통한 병동 간호업무를 위한 방향에 대해 전망해 보고자 시도되었다. 지금까지 개발된 병동간호업무에 사용가능한 로봇시스템들은 작동의 어려움이나, 공간적 제약, 높은 가격으로 보편화되지 못했다. 병동 간호업무의 로봇시스템화는 가급적 환자와 접촉하는 시간 이외의 업무를 줄여주는데 단순하고 반복적인 업무의 로봇시스템화에 집중해야 할 것이다. 2인 인터뷰를 통해 활력징후측정에 대한 로봇시스템화와, 침상교환을 돕는 로봇시스템화에 대한 아이디어는 공학분야와 함께 논의해볼만 하다. 이에 병동내 간호업무의 로봇시스템화를 설계시 제한점들이 충분히 고려되어야 할 것이다. 그리고 성공적인 간호와 타학제간 융합을 위해 간호업무에 대한 세심한 직무분석이 필요하고, 융합의 시행착오 극복을 위해 간호학과 타학제간 융합학회를 설립할 필요가 있다. 성공적인 병동 간호업무의 로봇시스템화는 병원의 수익 창출 뿐 아니라 간호사의 위상을 높이고, 간호업무의 혁신을 일으키는 발단이 될 것이다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.527-536
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• 2016

본 연구는 외국에서 이미 연구들이 진행되고 있는 노인간호 동물로봇과 관련하여 한국 노인을 위한 동물 로봇을 개발하는 경우 어떠한 속성을 포함하여야 할지 그 내용을 확인하고자 수행되었다. 이를 위해 재가노인 간호전문가와 시설노인전문가 13인을 대상으로 Focus group interview를 수행하였다. 자료수집은 2014년 8월 부터 12월 까지 이루어졌으며 2개 그룹으로 나누어 2명의 연구자가 인터뷰를 진행하고 인터뷰 결과에 대한 디브리핑과 필사자료를 바탕으로 내용분석을 통해 결과를 도출하였다. 그 결과 세 가지 주제 (효용성 인정, 모양, 기능)가 확인되었다. 구체적으로는 1인 가구 노인에 대한 효용성이 인정되었고, 모양과 크기는 우리나라 노인들에게 친숙한 강아지 모양, 그리고 다루기 용이한 3kg내외의 무게가 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 기능은 노인 뿐 아니라 가족들의 요구에도 부응할 수 있어야 하며 이를 위해 두 가지 핵심 기능 즉 상호작용 기능과 모니터링 기능이 필요한 것으로 드러났다. 본 연구의 결과 드러난 노인 간호 동물로봇의 요소들은 앞으로 노인을 대상으로 하여 확인할 필요가 있다. 또한 후속 연구들에서는 보다 구체적으로 각 주제별로의 컨텐츠에 대해 탐구할 필요가 있다.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.223-231
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects on cognitive function, mood, problematic behaviors and response to interaction with robot pet by elderly people with dementia. Method: A methodological triangulation design with quantitative and qualitative methods was used. The participants were 9 elderly people with dementia. The intervention was conducted twice a week for 4 weeks, Qualitative data were collected by interviews and video-taping for analysis of the responses of participants, Results: 1) Cognitive function, mood and problematic behaviors did not show any significantly differences after the program. 2) Analysis of the responses showed increases in verbal communication and positive action. Conclusion: The robot pet program had positive effects such as increasing communication and interaction. Therefore, this program could be considered as an effective program for emotional support for elderly people with dementia. However further repetitive study is need to validate the result.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2021

Our final goal is to implement nursing robots that can recognize patient's faces and their medicine on prescription. They can help patients to take medicine on time and prevent its abuse for recovering their health soon. As the first step, we proposed a medicine classifier with a low computational network that is able to run on embedded PCs without GPU in order to be applied to universal nursing robots. We confirm that our proposed model called MedicineNet achieves an 99.99% accuracy performance for classifying 15 kinds of medicines and background images. Moreover, we realize that the calculation time of our MedicineNet is about 8 times faster than EfficientNet-B0 which is well known as ImageNet classification with the high performance and the best computational efficiency.

• 노인간호학회지
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• 제20권sup1호
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• pp.144-153
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review the influence of robot systems on nursing and robotics technology. Methods: The research design was a review article. The literature was done to help understand the current status and effects of robotic technology in the healthcare field, both domestic and overseas. The keywords searched were 'Nursing', 'Robot', and 'Patient safety' in Pubmed, CINAHL etc, and 'Nursing Activity', 'Nursing Care Integration Service' in RISS and KISS. Results: In healthcare, robotics is used in five areas; personal care robots, mobility and transfer robots, cognitive and emotional robots, nursing assist robots and care robots in palliative home care settings. Nurses' demands for utilization of robotic systems are high. Especially, if robotics is used for indirect and non-value-added nursing activities, efficiency may increase. Therefore, robotics should be used to help nurses focus on bedside care and perform better nursing care. Conclusion: Future robots and technology can help nurse to provide optimal nursing to patients, and will improve the quality life of patients. It is suggested that nursing research should be actively pursued in the future. Especially, it is an urgent field to improve nursing quality and reduce the burden of nurses.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the main keywords, network properties, and main topics of news articles related to artificial intelligence technology in the field of nursing. Methods: After collecting artificial intelligence-and nursing-related news articles published between January 1, 1991, and July 24, 2022, keywords were extracted via preprocessing. A total of 3,267 articles were searched, and 2,996 were used for the final analysis. Text network analysis and topic modeling were performed using NetMiner 4.4. Results: As a result of analyzing the frequency of appearance, the keywords used most frequently were education, medical robot, telecom, dementia, and the older adults living alone. Keyword network analysis revealed the following results: a density of 0.002, an average degree of 8.79, and an average distance of 2.43; the central keywords identified were 'education,' 'medical robot,' and 'fourth industry.' Five topics were derived from news articles related to artificial intelligence and nursing: 'Artificial intelligence nursing research and development in the health and medical field,' 'Education using artificial intelligence for children and youth care,' 'Nursing robot for older adults care,' 'Community care policy and artificial intelligence,' and 'Smart care technology in an aging society.' Conclusion: The use of artificial intelligence may be helpful among the local community, older adult, children, and adolescents. In particular, health management using artificial intelligence is indispensable now that we are facing a super-aging society. In the future, studies on nursing intervention and development of nursing programs using artificial intelligence should be conducted.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects on cognitive function, depression, and activities of daily living of Silver- Care-Robot Program for institutionalized elders. Methods: This study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 42 institutionalized elders (17 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group). The Silver-Care-Robot Program was provided as an intervention which was conducted twice a week for 5 weeks. The Silver-Care-Robot Program is an integrated entertainment program to help the mental, emotional, and physical health of elderly people. Pre-test was conducted on the two groups, and, in order to examine the effects of intervention, a post-test was conducted after 5 weeks. Results: There were significant differences in cognitive function and ADL (activities of daily living) between two groups after the program. But the difference in depression in the institutionalized elders was not statistically significant between the two groups. Conclusion: The Silver-Care-Robot Program should be considered as a regular program for cognitive function and activities of daily living for institutionalized elders.