Designing a sociable robot system for weight maintenance

2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 253-257

  Kidd, Cory D ^a   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAL WORLD SETTING; SOCIABLE ROBOT SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

WEIGHT CONTROL;

EID: 33749043767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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