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Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise be culturally competent, aware of general cultural characteristics and of the different forms they take in different individuals, and sensitive to cultural differences while perceiving, reasoning, and acting. Drawing inspiration...
This study presents an additional investigation of effectiveness of robot exhibition through visitors experience, with respect to the previous research which was performed in the robot museum in South Korea. The survey research was performed in the temporal robot exhibition in Nagoya Science Hiroba 2016, Japan, targeting the local citizen who are most of the visitors of the exhibition. Sociability,...
Playing with Robot has become an effective therapy method for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this study, we explore the prosocial behaviour of children with ASD through a musical play with a humanoid robot, NAO. The children participated in two different play platforms, Touch Body and Dancing with Me. The game scores and close proximity are measured to assess their understanding...
Socially assistive robots have been used successfully for improvement of communication skills of young children. Such robots need to attract children's attention and stimulate sustainable interactions. Many recent research studies propose various approaches for increasing of interaction effectiveness of such robots. In this study, we investigate the effect of robotic movements with animacy on the...
An adaptive impedance control method was proposed to establish a desired dynamical relationship between the robot end point and its environment. Although impedance control-based position or force controllers or hybrid position/force controllers with respect to each axis defined at the contact point, have been successfully applied to various systems, simultaneous control of position tracking and force...
Interactive robots have been developed as an assistive, therapeutic, educational tools for improvement of the social communication skills in children with autism. However, the main limitation of previous studies in the field is that the aimed social skills were established by the appearances of robots that researchers have designed without detailed explorations of their features to improve the effectiveness...
Communicative robots have studied as a mediator to obtain the information in Human-robot interaction research field. The study in this paper presents that people have emotional feelings during interacting with robot by the comparison experiment conducted as two assignment, ifbot-assignment and web-assignment. 62 subjects are participated in both assignments. Ifbot assignment is to get a particular...
This study presents an initial investigation of effectiveness and service quality of robot museum through visitors experience. The survey research was performed in RoboLife Museum in South Korea, targeting teenagers who are most of the visitors of the museum. Impression, intimacy and attitude toward robots were measured to analyze change of the perception about robots through visiting experience....
A hip-knee-ankle-foot orthotic system called ‘HALO’(Hip and Ankle Linked Orthosis) for paraplegic walking has been developed in our previous study. Each ankle joint of the HALO system is linked with a medial single joint via a wire which allows both feet of the orthosis to stay always parallel to the floor during walking and assists swinging the leg. The tests of the HALO system demonstrated that...
Previous studies have reported that autistic children improved the social interaction and communication skills through interacting with robots. Most studies in the field of robot-assisted autism therapy, however, have focused on limited communication skills. Moreover, these studies used non-validated methods to measure the effectiveness of the therapy. Thus, in the present study, a therapeutic robot...
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