Designing intelligent socially assistive robots as effective tools in cognitive interventions

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-126

  Chan, Jeanie ^a   Nejat, Goldie ^a   Chen, Jingcong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive interventions; control architecture; Human Robot interaction; socially assistive robots

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS; CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; EFFECTIVE TOOL; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; ROBOTIC ASSISTANTS; TRAINING INTERVENTION;

ARCHITECTURE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79955967728     PISSN: 02198436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219843611002423     Document Type: Article

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