Title :
Social robots for health applications
Author :
Breazeal, Cynthia
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
Abstract :
Social robots are designed to interact with people in a manner that is consistent with human social psychology. They are a particularly intriguing technology in health domains due to their ability to engage people along social and emotional dimensions. In this paper, we highlight a number of interesting opportunities for social robots in healthcare related applications.
Keywords :
health care; medical robotics; patient care; emotional dimension; health domain; healthcare related application; human social psychology; social dimension; social robots; Conferences; Diseases; Humans; Pediatrics; Robot kinematics; Artificial Intelligence; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Robotics; Social Behavior; Social Isolation; Therapy, Computer-Assisted;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091328
