Towards Socially Assistive Robotics

Towards Socially Assistive Robots for the Elderly

The NTU-PAL1 and NTU-PAL2 robots for the elderly are introduced in this paper. The emphasis of NTUPAL1 is offering increased mobility for elderly people who are less-mobile. NTU-PAL2, an emotional expressive robot, is used to stimulate interaction, to supply relaxed companionship and to fulfill a sense of affection for senior citizens staying alone. The core software modules in terms of dynamic...

The Grand Challenges in Socially Assistive Robotics

Socially Assistive Robotics focuses on helping human users through social rather than physical interaction [1]. This paper describes the broad scope of socially assistive robotics, focusing on a general description of robotic technologies that have been and are currently being developed to assist people with disabilities. The paper then proposes the grand challenges of this field, and a list of...

Contribution Towards Evaluating the Practicability of Socially Assistive Robots - by Example of a Mobile Walking Coach Robot

This paper wants to make a further contribution towards a more transparent and systematic technical evaluation of implemented services and underlying HRI and navigation functionalities of socially assistive robots for public or domestic applications. Based on a set of selected issues, our mobile walking coach robot developed in the recently finished research project ROREAS (Robotic Rehabilitati...

Multi-Party Socially Assistive Robotics: Defining the Moderator Role

Automated Caricature of Robot Expressions in Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction

Children with autism spectrum disorder suffer from a deficit that prevents them from observing, interpreting, and learning social cues. Clinical studies in social skills training have proposed methods, such as exaggeration, to enhance autism intervention strategies. Socially assistive robotics is an area of human-robot interaction that has the potential to improve social activity. Inspired by s...