Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
Sep 8, 2023
BACKGROUND While there is a growing body of research examining opinions on social robots in elderly care, there is a lack of comprehensive studies investigating the underlying factors influencing these opinions. The Godspeed Questionnaire Series (GQS...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 18, 2023
(1) Background: A robot in care for older adults requires solid research confirming its acceptance. The aim of this study was to present the Polish version of the Godspeed Questionnaire Series (GQS) and assess the perception of the social robot TIAGo...
Journal of medical Internet research
Aug 4, 2023
BACKGROUND: Efficient use of humanoid social robots in the care for older adults requires precise knowledge of expectations in this area. There is little research in this field that includes the interaction of stakeholders with the robot. Even fewer ...
Journal of medical Internet research
Aug 2, 2023
BACKGROUND: Social robots, as a form of digital health technologies, are used to support emotional, cognitive, and physical care and have shown promising outcomes in enhancing social well-being in people with dementia (PwD) by boosting emotions, soci...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 31, 2023
Cyber-physical or virtual systems or devices that are capable of autonomously interacting with human or non-human agents in real environments are referred to as social robots. The primary areas of application for biomedical technology are nursing hom...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 11, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Research into current robot middleware has revealed that most of them are either too complicated or outdated. These facts have motivated the development of a new middleware to meet the requirements of usability by non-experts. The propo...
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Jun 5, 2023
What is required to allow an artificial agent to engage in rich, human-like interactions with people? I argue that this will require capturing the process by which humans continually create and renegotiate 'bargains' with each other. These hidden neg...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 2, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in social interaction and expressing and understanding emotions. Based on this, robots for children with ASD have been proposed. However, few studies have been conducted about how to design a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 16, 2023
Touch can have a strong effect on interactions between people, and as such, it is expected to be important to the interactions people have with robots. In an earlier work, we showed that the intensity of tactile interaction with a robot can change ho...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
May 9, 2023
Social robots hold promise in augmenting education, rehabilitative care, and leisure activities for children. Despite findings suggesting various benefits of social robot use in schools, clinics, and homes, stakeholders have voiced concerns about the...