Title :
Assistive social robots for people with special needs
Author :
Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia ; Zhijun Zhang
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
An increasing number of elderly people leads to demand for social robots to support health care and independent life. An overview of various potential applications of social robots is provided in this paper. In addition, the latest research progress in our institute is presented, i.e., multi-party interaction, gesture recognition, affective computing, and attention capture. All the research and applications demonstrate that social robots are good assistive robots for people with special needs.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; geriatrics; gesture recognition; health care; medical robotics; social sciences computing; affective computing; assistive social robots; attention capture; elderly people; gesture recognition; health care; multiparty interaction; special needs; Aging; Conferences; Entertainment industry; Mood; Robot sensing systems; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mysore
DOI :
10.1109/IC3I.2014.7019828
