In the hands of machines? the future of aged care

Minds and Machines

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-161

  Sparrow, Robert ^a,b   Sparrow, Linda ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Aged Care   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Assistive technology; Electronic monitoring; Ethics; Human robot interaction; Robots; Social robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AGED CARE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC MONITORING; ETHICS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; SOCIAL ROBOTICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33750175364     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-006-9030-6     Document Type: Article

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