An expressive socially assistive robot for health-care applications

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2008, Pages 755-761

  Allison, Brian ^a   Nejat, Goldie ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; ASSISTIVE; BODY LANGUAGE; DESIGN PARAMETERS; END-OF-LIFE; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HOSPITAL WARDS; HUMAN FACES; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NON-CONTACT; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; PATIENT CARE; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SERVICE APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

HOSPITALS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 81155151401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2008-50082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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