My Precious Friend: Human-Robot Interactions in Home Care for Socially Isolated Older Adults.

Journal: Clinical gerontologist
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Using a friendship framework, we explored interactions between a multi-functional companion robot and older adults residing in a low-resource community in South Korea.

Authors

  • Othelia EunKyoung Lee
    The University of North Carolina , Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, othelia.lee@uncc.edu.
  • Hyenjoo Lee
    Department of Social Welfare, Hallym Sungshim University, Choonchun, South Korea.
  • Albert Park
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine University of Utah 421 Wakara Way Ste 140, Salt Lake City, UT 84108-3514, USA.
  • Namkee G Choi
    Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.