Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction.

Journal: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The worldwide population of older adults will soon exceed the capacity of assisted living facilities. Accordingly, we aim to understand whether appropriately designed robots could help older adults stay active at home.

Authors

  • Naomi T Fitter
    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. naomi.fitter@oregonstate.edu.
  • Mayumi Mohan
  • Katherine J Kuchenbecker
    Haptic Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • Michelle J Johnson
    Sofiya Lysenko is a research assistant working in Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.