Robotic assistants for the elderly: Designing and conducting field studies

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 101-106

  Matthews, Judith T ^a   Engberg, Sandra J ^a   Glover, Jared ^b   Pollack, Martha ^c   Thrun, Sebastian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Health care and rehabilitation; Medical robotics; Personal robots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEALTH CARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

HUMAN AGING; HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; PERSONAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 10444257214     PISSN: 1027264X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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