• DocumentCode
    3101931
  • Title

    Application of the NAO humanoid robot in the treatment of marrow-transplanted children

  • Author

    Csala, E. ; Nemeth, G. ; Zainko, Cs.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-5 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    655
  • Lastpage
    659
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a potential application of NAO humanoid robots under special circumstances in a hospital, including results of experiments performed at the Children´s Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit of Szent László Hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Children in this unit are forced to live in small 2×3 m sterile boxes where NAO can be a good companion to cheer them up and break their usual daily routine with performances and exercise. This is a new and promising domain of cognitive infocommunications.
  • Keywords
    child treatment; dialogue systems; humanoid robot; interaction; speech synthesis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kosice, Slovakia
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5187-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5186-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CogInfoCom.2012.6421933
  • Filename
    6421933