Assistance dogs provide a useful behavioral model to enrich communicative skills of assistance robots

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Gácsi, Márta ^a   Szakadát, Sára ^b   Miklósi, Ádám ^b  

^a MTA ELTE COMPARATIVE ETHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Assistance robots; Displacement behaviors; Dog behavioral model; Dog human cooperation; Problem solving strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891678820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00971     Document Type: Article

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