Abstract
Conducting a research becomes a challenging task when a large number of scientific data is available and needs to be organized. In addition, research facilities may not be easily accessible due to the limitation in using hi-tech equipment and the resulting expenses. While, there are sophisticated tools for managing research data and assisting the researcher in conducting a research, they are not accessible through a union integrated manner, and sometimes the researcher is overwhelmed with these tools, with additional effort to learn how to work with them. To overcome these challenges, we propose a personalized intelligent assistant as a social robot, called RoboDoc, to assist the researcher in research steps such as idea generation, designing research methodology, and collecting and analyzing research data. We introduce a conceptual framework for RoboDoc to describe its services and design requirements, and at the end we briefly discuss our current efforts in developing RoboDoc.
This research was fully supported by Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc). Special thanks goes to Dr. Sirous Alidousti, director of IranDoc, for his support and fruitful advises in this research.
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Mohebi, A. et al. (2016). Conceptual Framework for RoboDoc: A New Social Robot for Research Assistantship. 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_79
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