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Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults

Abstract

A burgeoning area of HRI explores how robots can be used to assist older adults who are dealing with health issues. However, much of this work focuses on aiding older adults that are living with dementia or other serious health-related problems. In this work, we focus on robots helping otherwise-healthy older adults living with social isolation and loneliness. We created an initial robot behavior design, which leverages techniques from therapy, to provide emotional support through basic conversational ability.

Authors

Baecker AN; Geiskkovitch DY; González AL; Young JE

Pagination

pp. 122-124

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

March 23, 2020

DOI

10.1145/3371382.3378279

Name of conference

Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
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