DocumentCode
238932
Title
Assistive social robots for people with special needs
Author
Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia ; Zhijun Zhang
Author_Institution
Inst. for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
fYear
2014
fDate
27-29 Nov. 2014
Firstpage
1374
Lastpage
1380
Abstract
An increasing number of elderly people leads to demand for social robots to support health care and independent life. An overview of various potential applications of social robots is provided in this paper. In addition, the latest research progress in our institute is presented, i.e., multi-party interaction, gesture recognition, affective computing, and attention capture. All the research and applications demonstrate that social robots are good assistive robots for people with special needs.
Keywords
control engineering computing; geriatrics; gesture recognition; health care; medical robotics; social sciences computing; affective computing; assistive social robots; attention capture; elderly people; gesture recognition; health care; multiparty interaction; special needs; Aging; Conferences; Entertainment industry; Mood; Robot sensing systems; Senior citizens;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Mysore
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IC3I.2014.7019828
Filename
7019828
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