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Improved Knowledge Changes the Mindset: Older Adults’ Perceptions of Care Robots
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-08)
This paper explores Finnish, German and Swedish older adults’ perceptions of a future welfare service with increased use of welfare technologies, specifically care robots. The issues are the rapid digitalization and ...
Robotics in Finnish welfare services: dynamics in an emerging innovation ecosystem
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-20)
This paper considers the dynamics of the emerging care robotics innovation ecosystem in the Finnish welfare services. Innovation ecosystems have both evolutionary nature as well as aspects of purposeful design, and we study ...
Exoskeletons - Human-Centred Solutions to Support Care Workers?
(Springer, 2023-01-28)
Care work involves various physically strenuous stages. Tools of different kinds, such as cranes, can be used to facilitate the work, but if no suitable tool exists, the care worker’s physical strength is used as an aid. ...
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-11-07)
In the ecosystem and network perspectives on innovation, cooperation between various actors is seen as essential to innovation. Because of several factors known to hinder cooperation, the literature has pointed out the ...
Perception of Society’s Trust in Care Robots by Public Opinion Leaders
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-06-06)
The rapid demographic shift toward a greater percentage of the elderly population increases the need for welfare services. Welfare technology and especially care robots can be regarded as an important measure to counteract ...
Design Thinking and Welfare Technology: A Focus on Information Design
(CRC Press, 2022-03-03)
Digitalization has transformed the ways in which people interact, communicate, work and study. In social and healthcare services, in line with this transformation, the use of welfare technology is increasing. Implementation ...