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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CogInfoCom.2012.6421933
