The use of socially assistive robots in the design of intelligent cognitive therapies for people with dementia

2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 924-929

  Tapus, Adriana ^a   Ţǎpuş, Cristian ^b   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; COGNITIVE ASSISTANCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; OLDER POPULATION; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

MACHINE DESIGN; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70449411356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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