The domesticated robot: Design guidelines for assisting older adults to age in place

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 335-342

  Beer, Jenay M ^a   Smarr, Cory Ann ^a   Chen, Tiffany L ^a   Prakash, Akanksha ^a   Mitzner, Tracy L ^a   Kemp, Charles C ^a   Rogers, Wendy A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; aging in place; assistive robotics; chores; design guidelines; home; home environment; mobile manipulation; needs assessment; older adults; service robots

Indexed keywords

AGING IN PLACE; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; CHORES; DESIGN GUIDELINES; HOME; HOME ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE MANIPULATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OLDER ADULTS; SERVICE ROBOTS;

AGING OF MATERIALS; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PLANNING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84859958495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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