Measuring acceptance of an assistive social robot: A suggested toolkit

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 528-533

  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

ASSISTIVE; COMMUNITY IS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; HUMAN ROBOTS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; USERS' ACCEPTANCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 72849153677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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