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@ARTICLE{Felding:282572,
      author       = {Felding, Simone Anna and Teupen, Sonja and Budak, Kübra
                      Beliz and Roes, Martina},
      title        = {{P}layfulness and disruptions: using pet robots in everyday
                      life in a nursing home for people with dementia},
      journal      = {Ageing and society},
      volume       = {45},
      number       = {12},
      issn         = {0144-686X},
      address      = {Cambridge [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
      reportid     = {DZNE-2025-01332},
      pages        = {2651 - 2674},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {Recent years have seen increasing interest in social
                      robots, including pet robots, and their use in the care of
                      people with dementia. Most research has focused on formal
                      care-givers’ perspectives. There is a lack of qualitative
                      research on the use of social robots in embedded practice
                      and how people with dementia react to and interact with
                      social robots. This study explores the use of pet robots in
                      everyday life in a nursing home for people with dementia and
                      how playfulness and disruptions characterized many
                      interactions among the people with dementia, the pet robots
                      and the researcher. It draws on five months of ethnographic
                      fieldwork in a Danish nursing home for people with dementia
                      including 11 residents, 13 staff members and 3 family
                      members. We found that pet robots opened people up for
                      playful interactions, allowing people with dementia to
                      express themselves and have fun in a way that flattened
                      hierarchies and enabled these individuals to be active
                      instigators of joyful interactions. In the article, we argue
                      that agency is distributed and that residents, robots,
                      researchers and other actors both instigate and disrupt
                      playful interactions. Playful interactions in the nursing
                      home can be fun and rebellious in an everyday life that is
                      otherwise focused on fitting in and keeping calm. Therefore,
                      playfulness and fun can be viewed as a way of coping with
                      institutional life. Further, playful interactions with pet
                      robots can provide opportunities for residents to be active
                      instigators rather than merely passive recipients of care
                      and activities.},
      cin          = {AG Roes / AG Teupen},
      ddc          = {610},
      cid          = {I:(DE-2719)1610003 / I:(DE-2719)5000076},
      pnm          = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      doi          = {10.1017/S0144686X25100263},
      url          = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/282572},
}