Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 30, 2021
Mental health is as crucial as physical health, but it is underappreciated by mainstream biomedical research and the public. Compared to the use of AI or robots in physical healthcare, the use of AI or robots in mental healthcare is much more limited...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 28, 2021
We present a new architecture to address the challenges of speaker identification that arise in interaction of humans with social robots. Though deep learning systems have led to impressive performance in many speech applications, limited speech data...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 26, 2021
Social robots are increasingly penetrating our daily lives. They are used in various domains, such as healthcare, education, business, industry, and culture. However, introducing this technology for use in conventional environments is not trivial. Fo...
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Jul 6, 2021
BACKGROUND: Social relationships are essential resources for psychological well-being and physical health. In old age, increased vulnerability and loss of functions are accompanied by diminishing social networks reinforcing a vicious circle. This dec...
BMC geriatrics
Jun 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: Psychosocial issues, such as social isolation and loneliness among older adults and people with dementia, continue to pose challenges with a rapidly aging population worldwide. Social robots are a rapidly emerging field of technology, dev...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jun 7, 2021
(1) Background: while there exist validated measures to assess the needs of older people, there are comparatively few validated tools to assess needs and requirements for the use of robots. Henceforth, the aim of the study is to present and validate ...
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
May 13, 2021
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to understand the acceptability of social robots and the adaptation of the Hybrid-Face Robot for dementia care in India.
Scientific reports
May 6, 2021
Understanding human trust in machine partners has become imperative due to the widespread use of intelligent machines in a variety of applications and contexts. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether human-beings trust a social robot-i.e. a ...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Apr 20, 2021
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the everyday life of people who have this lifelong condition. Robots hold great promise for uplifting therapy and care of the affected population. We searched Scopus, Medline, ScienceDirect, Web of...
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
Apr 6, 2021
Social species rely on the ability to modulate feedback-monitoring in social contexts to adjust one's actions and obtain desired outcomes. When being awarded positive outcomes during a gambling task, feedback-monitoring is attenuated when strangers a...