The influence of social presence on enjoyment and intention to use of a robot and screen agent by elderly users

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 695-700

  Heerink, Marcel ^a   Kröse, Ben ^b   Evers, Vanessa ^b   Wielinga, Bob ^b  

^a Instituut voor Information Engineering   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ASSISTIVE AGENTS; ELDERLY PEOPLE; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; SOCIAL PRESENCE;

AGENTS;

EID: 52949123285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.4600748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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