The Huggable: A therapeutic robotic companion for relational, affective touch

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1290-1291

  Stiehl, Walter Dan ^a   Lieberman, Jeff ^a   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a   Basel, Louis ^a   Cooper, Roshni ^a   Knight, Heather ^a   Lalla, Levi ^a   Maymin, Allan ^a   Purchase, Scott ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPANION ANIMAL THERAPY; LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS; ROBOTIC COMPANIONS; SENSITIVE SKIN;

ACTUATORS; DATA ACQUISITION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33749064711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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