A cross-cultural evaluation of domestic assistive robots

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-08-02, Issue , 2008, Pages 24-31

  Cortellessa, Gabriella ^a   Scopelliti, Massimiliano ^a   Tiberio, Lorenza ^a   Svedberg, Gion Koch ^b   Loutfi, Amy ^b   Pecora, Federico ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ASSISTIVE ROBOTS; CROSS-CULTURAL EVALUATION; DOMESTIC ROBOTS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL POLICY; USER EVALUATIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 65649115070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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