We experimented whether the elderly

We experimented whether the elderly can operate remote robots to move to specified goal points.

Figure 4 shows the experiment task.

Figure 4 (a) is a layout of a nursing house and test subjects are asked to operate an robot in the right bottom room to get out of the room.

Figure 4 (b) and (c) shows the layout of experiments and the test subject is out of the room and operate the robot by seeing the images that are transmitted from the robot’s camera.

The test subject controls the robot’s movement by touching stop marks or three arrows that correspond to forward movement and right/left turn respectively (Figure 4 (d)).

The robot is RoombaTMmounted a PC with a Web camera.