TH#13: Wang Long Li & Robert Paauwe (TinyBots) – Tessa
This talk was part of This happened Rotterdam #13.
http://www.thishappened.org/event/this-happened-rotterdam-13.
As founders of TinyBots (https://www.tinybots.nl), Wang and Robert are on a mission to empower people with cognitive challenges and their family, using social technology & robotics.
Together they created a friendly little robot called Tessa, who assists elderly with dementia when nobody else is around. She enhances their self-esteem and -reliance by providing systematic reminders, personalized music, storytelling, cognitive therapy, and spoken instructions for daily tasks.
Robert and Wang will tell us the birth-story of Tessa and how she got her looks and character to optimally connect with people with dementia, as well as their caregivers. They will give us a peek into successfully designing a high tech solution that is also able to make a deeply human connection, all the while being so intuitive that anybody can use it.
Video courtesy of Yorick Leusink Media Productions (http://yorickleusink.nl/)
Made possible by Design Platform Rotterdam (https://www.designplatformrotterdam.nl/) & WORM Rotterdam (https://worm.org)
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