Project VIRGO: Creation of a surrogate companion for the elderly

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2104-2108

  Sherwood, Timothy ^a   Mintz, Farilee ^a   Vomela, Miroslava ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Companionship; Elderly; Loss; Surrogate companion; VIRGO; Voice activated

Indexed keywords

COMPANIONSHIP; ELDERLY; EXPERT ADVICE; MANAGEMENT TOOL; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SURROGATE COMPANION; USER-CENTERED; VIRGO; WELLBEING;

LOSSES; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869127225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1057108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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