Can children have a relationship with a robot?

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Volumn 59 LNICST, Issue , 2011, Pages 49-56

  Beran, Tanya N ^a   Ramirez Serrano, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK STACKING; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ROBOT ARMS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84885886171     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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