The pet plant: Developing an inanimate emotionally interactive tool for the elderly

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4744 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 68-79

  McCalley, Teddy ^a   Mertens, Alain ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Emergent emotion; Health; Interactive technology; Persuasive technology; Restorative; Robotic pet

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

EMERGENT EMOTION; INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; RESTORATIVE; ROBOTIC PET;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149095733     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77006-0_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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