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Socially Assistive Robots for Individuals Suffering from Dementia

Adriana Tapus, Juan Fasola, Maja J. Matarić

Year
2008
Citations
15

Abstract

This paper presents a hypothesis-testing pilot study of socially assistive robotics technology [1] aimed at providing affordable personalized cognitive assistance, motivation, and companionship to users suffering from cognitive changes related to aging and/or Alzheimer’s disease. This is work-in-progress. Keywords socially assistive robotics; therapeutic robotics; human-robot interaction 1.

Keywords

DementiaCognitionAssistive technologyRobotPsychologyRoboticsInterpersonal communicationHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceApplied psychology

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