Providing healthcare services to patients and elderly people has been an emerging application domain in ubiquitous computing technologies. The current trend toward long-term health...
The rapidly expanding elderly population in Japan and other industrialized countries has posed an enormous challenge to the systems of healthcare that serve elderly citizens. This ...
We describe a method for predicting user intentions as part of a human-robot interface. In particular, we show that funnels, i.e., geometric objects that partition the input space...
Michael T. Rosenstein, Andrew H. Fagg, Shichao Ou,...
The problem of developing local reactive obstacle-avoidance behaviors by a mobile robot through online real-time learning is considered. The robot operated in an unknown bounded 2...
- It has been shown that in human-robot interaction, the effectiveness of a robot varies inversely with the operator engagement in the task. Given the importance of maintaining opt...