BACKGROUND: In Europe, the population of older people is increasing rapidly. Many older people prefer to remain in their homes but living alone could be a risk for their safety. In this context, robotics and other emerging technologies are increasing...
We present a biologically motivated model for visual self-localization which extracts a spatial representation of the environment directly from high dimensional image data by employing a single unsupervised learning rule. The resulting representation...
This study aimed to identify and describe the fundamental characteristics of spoken dialogue systems, and their role in supporting human-robot interaction and enabling the communication between socially assistive robots and patients with dementia. Fi...
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Sep 19, 2018
PURPOSE: To explore the social impact of, comfort with, and negative attitudes towards robots among young, middle-aged, and older adults in the United States.
OBJECTIVE: Human-robot coordination (HRC) aims to enable human and robot to form a tightly coupled system to accomplish a task. One of its important application prospects is to improve the physical function of the disabled. However, the low level of ...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Sep 17, 2018
BACKGROUND: Walking in daily life is complex entailing various prerequisites such as leg strength, trunk stability or cognitive and motor dual task (DT) activities. Conventional physiotherapy can be complemented with robot-assisted gait therapy (RAGT...
Behavior analysis through posture recognition is an essential research in robotic systems. Sitting with unhealthy sitting posture for a long time seriously harms human health and may even lead to lumbar disease, cervical disease and myopia. Automatic...
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