Living with seal robots - Its sociopsychological and physiological influences on the elderly at a care house

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 972-980

  Wada, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Shibata, Takanori ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly care; Human robot interaction; Mental commit robot; Psychotherapy; Robot therapy

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; MENTAL COMMIT ROBOT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; ROBOT THERAPY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 35348921191     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.906261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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