Title :
Preliminary field test of communication robot for seniors living alone
Author :
Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Ueno, Ryuutaro ; Ichino, Toshiaki ; Yamaguchi, Toru
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Syst. Design, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Recently, solitary death of elderly people becomes an important problem by the super aged society. The demand of monitoring system for their living is rising, as seniors living alone are increasing. Besides, recent advanced robot technology is expected to help those people. In this paper, we introduced an elderly people monitoring robot system to a facility and investigated its possibility.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; handicapped aids; intelligent robots; communication robot; elderly people monitoring robot system; seniors living alone; Cameras; Image color analysis; Monitoring; Robot vision systems; Senior citizens; elderly people; intelligent room; kukanchi; monitoring; robot;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0714-8
