The design of an intelligent socially assistive robot for person-centered cognitive interventions

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 91-99

  Chan, Jeanie ^a   Nejat, Goldie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; ROBOTIC ASSISTANTS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TRAINING INTERVENTION; WORK FOCUS;

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80054998758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-28681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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