The influence of social presence on acceptance of a companion robot by older people

Journal of Physical Agents

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 33-40

  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

Assistive technology; Human robot interaction; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 72849145119     PISSN: 18880258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14198/JoPha.2008.2.2.05     Document Type: Article

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