The CARESSES Randomised Controlled Trial: Exploring the Health-Related Impact of Culturally Competent Artificial Intelligence Embedded Into Socially Assistive Robots and Tested in Older Adult Care Homes [0.03%]
CARESSES 随机对照试验：探索文化胜任力的人工智能嵌入社交助手机器人在老年人护理机构中的健康相关影响
Chris Papadopoulos,Nina Castro,Abiha Nigath et al.
Chris Papadopoulos et al.
This trial represents the final stage of the CARESSES project which aimed to develop and evaluate a culturally competent artificial intelligent system embedded into social robots to support older adult wellbeing. A parallel group, single-bl...
Can Robots Help Working Parents with Childcare? Optimizing Childcare Functions for Different Parenting Characteristics [0.03%]
机器人能帮助父母照看孩子吗？不同育儿特征下的优化照看孩子的功能
Jieon Lee,Daeho Lee,Jae-Gil Lee
Jieon Lee
Is it true that parents always prioritize educational effectiveness when selecting childcare services? The current study identified the potential requirements of dual-income parents toward social robots' diverse childcare functions (e.g., s...
Field Testing of Ro-Tri, a Robot-Mediated Triadic Interaction for Older Adults [0.03%]
用于老年人的机器人介导三元交互（Ro-tri）实地测试研究
Jing Fan,Akshith Ullal,Linda Beuscher et al.
Jing Fan et al.
Older adults residing in long term care (LTC) settings commonly experience apathy, a neuropsychiatric condition with adverse consequences of increased morbidity and mortality. Activities that combine social, physical and cognitive stimuli a...
Break the Ice: a Survey on Socially Aware Engagement for Human-Robot First Encounters [0.03%]
破冰：人类首次接触机器人时的社会互动调查研究
João Avelino,Leonel Garcia-Marques,Rodrigo Ventura et al.
João Avelino et al.
Society is starting to come up with exciting applications for social robots like butlers, coaches, and waiters. However, these robots face a challenging task: to meet people during a first encounter. This survey explores the literature that...
Agnieszka Wykowska
Agnieszka Wykowska
As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a rol...
Foundations of Erobotics [0.03%]
机器人基础
Simon Dubé,Dave Anctil
Simon Dubé
Technology is giving rise to artificial erotic agents, which we call erobots (erôs + bot). Erobots, such as virtual or augmented partners, erotic chatbots, and sex robots, increasingly expose humans to the possibility of intimacy and sexua...
Omri Avioz-Sarig,Samuel Olatunji,Vardit Sarne-Fleischmann et al.
Omri Avioz-Sarig et al.
Physical exercise has many physical, psychological and social health benefits leading to improved life quality. This paper presents a robotic system developed as a personal coach for older adults aiming to motivate older adults to participa...
A decision-theoretic approach for the collaborative control of a smart wheelchair [0.03%]
智能轮椅协同控制的决策理论方法
Mahmoud Ghorbel,Joelle Pineau,Richard Gourdeau et al.
Mahmoud Ghorbel et al.
While assistive robot technology is quickly progressing, several challenges remain to make this technology truly usable and useful for humans. One of the aspects that is particularly important is in defining control protocols that allow bot...
Tadele Belay Tuli,Tesfaye Olana Terefe,Md Mamun Ur Rashid
Tadele Belay Tuli
Human-robot interaction has extended its application horizon to simplify how human beings interact with each other through a remotely controlled telepresence robot. The fast growth of communication technologies such as 4G and 5G has elevate...
Trust in and Ethical Design of Carebots: The Case for Ethics of Care [0.03%]
对护理机器人信任及进行伦理设计的必要性——关于照护伦理的讨论
Gary Chan Kok Yew
Gary Chan Kok Yew
The paper has two main objectives: to examine the challenges arising from the use of carebots as well as to discuss how the design of carebots can deal with these challenges. First, it notes that the use of carebots to take care of the phys...