Assistive technologies are often considered to be passive tools implemented in targeted processes. Our previous study of the implementation of the robot bathtub in a Danish elder center suggested that purposeful rationality was not the only issue at ...
Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
May 4, 2015
BACKGROUND: Delivering healthcare using remote robotic telepresence is an evolving practice in medical and surgical intensive critical care units and will likely have varied implications for work practices and working relationships in intensive care ...
Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
Apr 17, 2015
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a telemedical robot on trauma intensive care unit (TICU) clinician teamwork (i.e., team attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions) during patient rounds.
Although previous bio-inspired models have concentrated on invertebrates (such as ants), mammals such as primates with higher cognitive function are valuable for modeling the increasingly complex problems in engineering. Understanding primates' socia...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Apr 28, 2014
PURPOSE: To evaluate the usability of a mobile telepresence robot (MTR) in a hospital training apartment (HTA). The MTR was manoeuvred remotely and was used for communication when assessing independent living skills, and for security monitoring of co...
Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists
Apr 1, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Animal-assisted therapy is gaining popularity as part of therapeutic activities for older adults in many long-term care facilities. However, concerns about dog bites, allergic responses to pets, disease, and insufficient available resou...
Over the last twenty years, research on inclusive design has delivered a wealth of publications and initiatives, forming an emerging knowledge base for inclusive design. The inclusive design knowledge base breaks down into two discrete areas - unders...
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
Jul 8, 2025
PURPOSE: Development of aphasia therapies is limited by clinician shortages, patient recruitment challenges, and funding constraints. To address these barriers, we introduce (ABCD), a novel method for simulating goal-driven natural spoken dialogues ...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 1, 2025
Recently, transformer-based methods have shown remarkable success in object re-identification. However, most works directly embed off-the-shelf transformer backbones for feature extraction. These methods treat all patch tokens equally, ignoring the d...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jun 3, 2025
A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model (LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing persuasively and empathetically, at inferring user traits from text, and at mimicking human-like convers...
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