Screening of Mild Cognitive Impairment Through Conversations With Humanoid Robots: Exploratory Pilot Study

Kenta Yoshii   ¹ , MInf ;   Daiki Kimura   ² , PhD ;   Akihiro Kosugi   ³ , ME ;   Kaoru Shinkawa   ⁴ , ME ;   Toshiro Takase   ⁵ , PhD ;   Masatomo Kobayashi   ⁴ , PhD ;   Yasunori Yamada   ⁴ , PhD ;   Miyuki Nemoto   ⁶ , PhD ;   Ryohei Watanabe   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Miho Ota   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Shinji Higashi   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Kiyotaka Nemoto   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Tetsuaki Arai   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Masafumi Nishimura   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Intergraded Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

² Neuro-Symbolic AI, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

³ Accessibility Research, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

⁴ Digital Health, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

⁵ Healthcare and Life Science, IBM Consulting, IBM Japan, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan

⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Ibaraki Medical Center, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki, Japan