Proceeding of the Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Informatics
Vol 1: EECSI 2014

Assistive Social Robots for People with Special needs

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Institute for Media Innovation Nanyang Technological University)
Zhijun Zhang (Institute for Media Innovation Nanyang Technological University)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Aug 2014

Abstract

An increasing number of elderly people leads todemand for social robots to support health care and independentlife. An overview of various potential applications of social robotsis provided in this paper. In addition, the latest research progressin our institute is presented, i.e., multi-party interaction, gesturerecognition, affective computing, and attention capture. All theresearch and applications demonstrate that social robots are goodassistive robots for people with special needs.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EECSI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

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