Design, implementation and field tests of a socially assistive robot for the elderly: HealthBot version 2

Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1837-1842

  Jayawardena, C ^a   Kuo, I ^a   Datta, C ^a   Stafford, R Q ^a   Broadbent, E ^a   MacDonald, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; DESIGN DECISIONS; FIELD TEST; FIELD TRIAL; ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT; MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; OLDER PEOPLE; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT; USER ACCEPTANCE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84867407215     PISSN: 21551774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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