Service Robots and Automation for the Disabled/Limited

Graf, Birgit; Staab, Harald

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7_84

Cited by 19 publications

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“…This work aims to develop a socially intelligent robot, which may support diabetic patients to cope with their illness better by providing them guidelines. Different from the abovementioned socially assistive robots, a good discussion of service robots with manipulation skills to help the disabled/limited people is given in [19].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A socially-intelligent multi-robot service team for in-home monitoring

Drossos

Floros

Potirakis

et al. 2014

IISA 2014, the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications

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The objective of this study is to develop a sociallyintelligent service team comprised of multiple robots with sophisticated sonic interaction capabilities that aims to transparently collaborate towards efficient and robust monitoring by close interaction. In the distributed scenario proposed in this study, the robots share any acoustic data extracted from the environment and act in-sync with the events occurring in their living environment in order to provide potential means for efficient monitoring and decision-making within a typical home enclosure. Although each robot acts as an individual recognizer using a novel emotionally-enriched word recognition system, the final decision is social in nature and is followed by all. Moreover, the social decision stage triggers actions that are algorithmically distributed among the robots' population and enhances the overall approach with the potential advantages of the team work within specific communities through collaboration.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A socially-intelligent multi-robot service team for in-home monitoring

Drossos

Floros

Potirakis

et al. 2014

IISA 2014, the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications

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“…As the ageing population continues to grow, a lot of researchers and engineers are attracted by socially assistive robots [3], [5]. The researchers try to design social robots to support people to live independently at their own home.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social robots can improve the social interaction, companionship and physical condition of the aged and disabled, and thus attract more and more attention [3], [5]. They can help the elderly and disabled people to live independently [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Figure 2 shows a social scenario about that a real person and two social robots interact with each other as peer-to-peer companions. The target audiences of these novel technologies are elderly and frail people, physically disabled people, psychically disabled people, chronic patients, severely restrained people, and certain occupations or ordinary being [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assistive Social Robots for People with Special needs

Magnenat‐Thalmann

Zhang

2014

EECSI

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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.

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“…As a result of these demographic changes, there will be a demand for new solutions to support elderly people in leading independent lives. Older adults can be supported with technology that helps ease the problems of social isolation which may stem from mobility problems or from the need to care for a seriously ill spouse or partner full time (Graf & Staab 2009;Pollack 2005, 10-11). In addition, personnel in facilities for the elderly and in hospitals need every possible technological aid to help ease the burden of increasing numbers of elderly people to care for.…”

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confidence: 99%