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An Effort to Develop a Web-Based Approach to Assess the Need for Robots Among the Elderly

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Our aim was to develop an approach to assess the need for assistive and/or social robots among the elderly. The research methods consisted of literature review, inquiries from assistive technology professionals, and surveys among wellbeing technology professionals and elderly people. The results presented that there was lack of approaches in assessing the need for robots. Even if the web-based tool might be useful, developing such an approach and algorithms seemed to be a requiring task.

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    Kimmo J. Vänni & Annina K. Korpela

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

    Arvin Agah

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ayanna M. Howard

  4. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III de Madrid, madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  5. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Vänni, K.J., Korpela, A.K. (2016). An Effort to Develop a Web-Based Approach to Assess the Need for Robots Among the Elderly. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_70

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