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As older adults age, they are more likely to reside in long-term care facilities due to the decline in cognitive and/or physical abilities that prevent them from living independently. With a rapidly aging population there is an increasing demand on long-term care facilities to care for older adults. Such facilities need to provide medical services, assistance in activities of daily living, and scheduled...
As robotic technologies of varying shapes and forms continue to make their way into our everyday lives, the significance of a humanoid robot's ability to make a human interaction feel natural, engaging and entertaining becomes an area of keen interest in sociable robotics. In this paper, we present our findings on how affective feedback can be used to drive reinforcement learning in human-robot interactions...
Robot therapy is expected to have psychological, physiological, and social effects similar to those of animal therapy. The therapeutic seal robot, PARO, is used in various facilities for the elderly, and its use spreading throughout the world. In previous studies, the effects of PARO were examined by various types of tests. However, the number of subjects in those studies was low. In this study, PARO...
This paper proposes a Kinect-based calling gesture recognition scenario for taking order service of an elderly care robot. The proposed scenarios are designed mainly for helping non expert users like elderly to call service robot for their service request. In order to facilitate elderly service, natural calling gestures are designed to interact with the robot. Our challenge here is how to make the...
This paper presents an interactive control for our assistive robotic walker, the JAIST Active Robotic Walker (JARoW), developed for elderly people in need of walking assistance. The focus of our paper is placed on how to estimate the user's walking parameters by sensing the locations of lower limbs and to predict his or her walking patterns. For this purpose, a particle-filter-based prediction technique...
In this paper we describe our progress towards understanding human communication through physical interaction. We describe a classification algorithm that can recognize four classes of actions that frequently occur during collaborative manipulation of planar objects. These actions were selected based on a user study involving dyads of elderly and care-giver in a realistic setting. Further user studies...
In recent years, much effort has been made to provide services to an elderly person living alone at home. An essential component of facilitating the person is to identify his location in the home environment. Fundamentally, three different methods are being focused by the research community to address the issue of localizing the person. Most common approach is to install a variety of sensor systems...
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