Sayuri Suwa
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About
Sayuri Suwa is a prominent researcher specializing in care robotics, aging-in-place technologies, and the ethical dimensions of assistive care systems for older adults. Her work sits at the intersection of gerontology, healthcare policy, and human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on understanding how older people, family caregivers, and care professionals perceive and engage with home-care robots across different cultural contexts. Suwa's most influential contribution is her pioneering cross-national comparative research spanning Japan, Ireland, and Finland, examining attitudes toward home-care robots among diverse stakeholder groups. Her 2020 comparative questionnaire study has accumulated 53 citations, reflecting its significance in establishing a foundational framework for understanding cross-cultural perceptions of care robotics. She has made substantial contributions to the ethical discourse surrounding carebot deployment, exploring how care professionals in Japan navigate moral considerations amid the country's well-documented care workforce crisis. Beyond attitudinal research, Suwa has developed explanatory models for ethical awareness in robot-assisted care and conducted scoping reviews synthesizing long-term care workers' perspectives globally. Her research bridges technical and humanistic dimensions of robotics, having also contributed to mobile robot behavior-monitoring systems earlier in her career. With over 170 cumulative citations, her scholarship meaningfully informs both policy development and the responsible implementation of care technologies in aging societies worldwide.
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- 6The essential needs for home-care robots in Japan10 citations · 2020
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