Hiromasa Kondo
Tokyo College of Welfare, Tokyo University of Social Welfare
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About
Hiromasa Kondo’s research sits at the vital intersection of gerontechnology, organizational resilience, and healthcare robotics. His work explores how socially assistive robots and ambient monitoring systems can transform care delivery in nursing homes, particularly during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Kondo’s most-cited study (2017, 9 citations) demonstrated that introducing communicative robots with an infrared radiation monitoring system significantly reduced the workload of night-shift staff in nursing care facilities—a practical innovation addressing chronic staffing challenges. His follow-up work (2021, 5 citations) revealed a surprising finding: the pandemic unexpectedly fostered organizational resilience in facilities already using these robots, as staff adapted more readily to new protocols. This insight reframes technology adoption not just as a tool for efficiency, but as a catalyst for systemic adaptability. Kondo’s contributions are especially notable for their real-world impact in Japan’s rapidly aging society, where his evidence-based approach bridges engineering, gerontology, and organizational behavior. His research offers a compelling model for how thoughtful technology integration can simultaneously improve worker wellbeing and institutional resilience.
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