Robot assisted activity to elderly at a health service facility for the aged

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 470-473

  Wada, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Shibata, Takanori ^a,c   Saito, Tomoko ^a   Tanie, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Animals; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Medical treatment; Mood; Psychology; Robot sensing systems; Seals; Senior citizens

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ANIMALS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FACILITIES; GERIATRICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; SEALS;

MEDICAL TREATMENT; MOOD; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEM; SENIOR CITIZENS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84942615804     PISSN: 19483546     EISSN: 19483554     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2003.1196863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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