A sociable robot to encourage social interaction among the elderly

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3972-3976

  Kidd, Cory D ^a   Taggart, Will ^a   Turkle, Sherry ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMI-ROBOTIC TOYS; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 33845679494     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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