Being able to sort one's own medications is a critical self-management task for people with Parkinson's disease. We analyzed the medication sorting task and gathered design considerations. Then we developed an autonomous robot to assist in the task. We used guidelines provided by occupational therapists to determine the level of assistance provided by the robot.
@inproceedings{wilson2016icsr,
title={Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting},
author={Jason R. Wilson and Linda Tickle-Degnen and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2016},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Social Robotics},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/wilson2016icsr.pdf}
doi={10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_2}
}