Karen Lok Yi Wong
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About
Karen Lok Yi Wong is an emerging Canadian researcher whose work sits at the intersection of aging, technology, and long-term care (LTC). Her scholarship focuses on two interconnected domains: the social and emotional well-being of older adults in institutional care settings, and the integration of artificial intelligence-enabled robots into those environments. Wong's early high-impact work examined how COVID-19 pandemic restrictions intensified loneliness among LTC residents, a qualitative study that has accumulated 51 citations and helped shape pandemic-era policy conversations around resident well-being. She has since become a leading voice on AI-enabled and social robotics in LTC, authoring and co-authoring multiple scoping reviews and empirical studies exploring how staff, residents, and students perceive and adopt robotic companions — including pioneering research on LOVOT robots as emotional companions for older adults. Her work on staff experiences with telepresence robots in dementia care settings (22 citations) highlights her commitment to frontline perspectives often overlooked in technology adoption discourse. Wong also champions inclusive, participatory research methods, engaging patients, family partners, and intergenerational student teams in knowledge translation. With over 150 cumulative citations across a compact but rapidly growing body of work, she is establishing herself as a distinctive, humanistic voice in gerontechnology research.
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- 3Working with a robot in hospital and long-term care homes: staff experience22 citations · 2024
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