Reconfigurable interactivity for Net-accessible pet-type rehabilitation robot

Author

Maeda, Toshiyuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Inf., Hannan Univ., Osaka, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

29 July-1 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

1039

Abstract

This paper addresses a pet type rehabilitation robot system for aged people. The robot offers interactivity, which can communicate autonomously and communicate with others using Internet connectivity, for being a partner. To avoid being satiated with conversation, we propose reconfigurability of interactivity, especially focused conversation contents. In order to watch over aged people through the Net, we have furthermore developed auto detection alert system for aged people by checking user logs, which is also reconfigurable.

Keywords

Internet; geriatrics; handicapped aids; human computer interaction; interactive systems; medical computing; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; Internet connectivity; Net-accessible pet type rehabilitation robot; aged people; auto detection alert system; conversation content reconfigurability; human computer interaction; reconfigurable interactivity; reconfigurable user logs; Aging; Image converters; Orbital robotics; Positron emission tomography; Rehabilitation robotics; Robots; Speech synthesis; Telephony; Usability; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation, 2005 IEEE International Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9044-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2005.1626695

Filename

1626695