Monitoring elderly people with the ROBOCARE domestic environment: Interaction synthesis and user evaluation

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-82

  Cesta, Amedeo ^a   Cortellessa, Gabriella ^a   Rasconi, Riccardo ^a   Pecora, Federico ^b   Scopelliti, Massimiliano ^a   Tiberio, Lorenza ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AI in eldercare; intelligent interaction; schedule monitoring; user evaluation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT-BASED SCHEDULING; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELDERCARE; ELDERLY PEOPLE; INTELLIGENT COMPONENTS; INTELLIGENT INTERACTION; PERCEIVED UTILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION; SCHEDULE MONITORING; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; USER EVALUATION; USER EVALUATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79951780022     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2010.00372.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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