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SOCROB
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
STB: Intentional Stance Grounded Child-Dependent Robot
This paper reports on a children-dependent robotic approach to establish asynchronous child assistance with a social rapport network for the purpose of collecting trash from a publ...
Yuto Yamaji, Taisuke Miyake, Yuta Yoshiike, P. Rav...
PSYCHNOLOGY
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Psychological Implications of Domestic Assistive Technology for the Elderly
The ROBOCARE Domestic Environment (RDE) is the result of a three-year project aimed at developing cognitive support technology for elderly people. Specifically, the domestic envir...
Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Vittoria Giul...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Of pill boxes and piano benches: "home-made" methods for managing medication
We report on the results of an ethnographic study of how elders manage their medication with the objective of informing the design of in-home assistive health technology to suppor...
Leysia Palen, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Eliciting Requirements for a Robotic Toy for Children with Autism - Results from User Panels
— The discussion presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the IROMEC project which recognizes the important role of play in child development. The project investig...
Ben Robins, Nuno Otero, Ester Ferrari, Kerstin Dau...