etc. But I am her "only" child and she thinks of me as her playmate and sees nothing wrong with she and I being companions/playmates all of my non-working hours. She won't even eat dinner unless I am right there with her. I have been single for 20 years now and have my...
On the contrary, social robots are easily understood and friendly interface for older people. The older people can interact with these robots as their companions. And much likeAmazon’s famous Echofor the home, these robots talk, remind people of meetings, understand speech, keep track of shoppi...
Meanwhile, those with no neurological diseases were recruited by inviting the companions of patient study participants and searching for potential participants in communities located around respective hospitals. The inclusion criteria were as follows: 1) aged 55 years or older, 2) without any diagnosed...
Later works by this team at Vanderbilt University proposed the development of personal robots designed to act as understanding companions to humans [37], boosting research in the application of psychophysiology measurements for Human-Robot Interaction [38]. When devices such as the first FitBit were...
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