Addressing the long-term evaluation of a telepresence robot for the elderly

ICAART 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 652-663

  Cesta, Amedeo ^a   Cortellessa, Gabriella ^a   Orlandini, Andrea ^a   Tiberio, Lorenza ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Long term evaluation; Social robotics; Telepresence robot

Indexed keywords

END USERS; EVALUATION PLANS; LONG-TERM EVALUATION; OLDER ADULTS; OLDER PEOPLE; REAL WORLD DEPLOYMENT; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SHORT PERIODS; SHORT TERM; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; TELEPRESENCE; TIME SPAN; USER EVALUATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84862120382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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