Alice cares / KeyDocs presenteert ; in sammenwerking met NRC ; een film von Sander Burger.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Burger, Sander, director.

Doolaard, Janneke, producer.

KeyDocs, presenter.

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Video Project, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Ik ben Alice. English.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Care--Technological innovations.

Older people.

Human-robot interaction.

Robots.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (75 min.) : DVD video, sound, colour ; 12 cm

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam] : [KeyDocs], Distributed by Video Project, [2015]

Language Note:

In Dutch with English subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

video file DVD video

Summary:

In order to meet future care demands for the elderly who are lonely and suffering from dementia, carebot Alice has been developed by SELEMCA, a research group from VU Amsterdam. Not just scientists but also health and social care professionals, they feed their collective experience into Alice by integrating a computer model of human social-emotional behavior into the robot, giving Alice the ability for moral reasoning and letting her learn from the user. The focus of her development is on creating software which can recognize human emotions, respond to those emotions, and have the robot display those emotions itself. Alice the carebot is sent off to three elderly single women in assisted living facilities - Mrs. Remkes, Mrs. Schellekens-Blanke, an Mrs. van Wittmarschen- as a houseguest. Mrs. Remkes has not left her house in two weeks because the elevator is out of order. Mrs. van Wittmarschen is not very mobile and misses her only son who lives in Portugal. And former singer Mrs. Schellekens-Blanke's outlook on life is a somber one now that her mobility is also getting more and more restricted. The women, their family and surrounding caregivers await the carebot's arrival with suspicion though. Can a robot build a human relationship with someone and provide similar benefits as a relationship with a person of flesh and blood? Will Alice be able to motivate the women to tackle their social isolation?

Credits:

Directed by Sander Berger; produced by Janneke Doolaard.

Notes:

Documentary.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

OCLC:

1295223460