Robotics Technology in Mental Health Care
It addresses the problem of integrating technology into mental health care for practitioners and patients, but is incremental as it reviews existing and emerging applications without new results.
This chapter provides an overview of robotics and intelligent sensing technology in mental health care, discussing its current use, design and ethical issues, and future potential as a tool for practitioners.
This chapter discusses the existing and future use of robotics and intelligent sensing technology in mental health care. While the use of this technology is nascent in mental health care, it represents a potentially useful tool in the practitioner's toolbox. The goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of the field, discuss the recent use of robotics technology in mental health care practice, explore some of the design issues and ethical issues of using robots in this space, and finally to explore the potential of emerging technology.