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Affective Interaction Technology of Companion Robots for the Elderly: A Review

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Aimed at the Chinese aging population, companion robots with entertainment and communication functions are popular and useful for the daily life of the elderly. To make robots more reliable and socially acceptable in real scenarios, a better affective interaction with intelligent emotions and adaptive behaviors of companion robots is needed. Through the listed status of human-robot interaction and learning models, the advantages and limitations of companion robots are shown distinctly. In the end, the problems that might exist in technical and ethical at present are proposed, in order to provide references for the further researches.

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This work was sponsored by the project of Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan in Zhejiang (2017PY027).

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  1. College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Yuxiu Road 505, Zhuangshi, Zhenhai, Ningbo, 315212, Zhejiang, China

    Jin Wang & Tingting Liu

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Fenghua Road 818, Jiangbei, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang, China

    Zhen Liu & Yanjie Chai

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  1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Abdennour El Rhalibi

  2. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  3. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Haiyan Jin

  4. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Dandan Ding

  5. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

    Andres A. Navarro-Newball

  6. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Yinghui Wang

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Wang, J., Liu, T., Liu, Z., Chai, Y. (2019). Affective Interaction Technology of Companion Robots for the Elderly: A Review. In: El Rhalibi, A., Pan, Z., Jin, H., Ding, D., Navarro-Newball, A., Wang, Y. (eds) E-Learning and Games. Edutainment 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23712-7_11

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