1039 RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FROM DOMESTIC ROBOTS: WHAT ARE ELDERS’ PREFERENCES?

What Could Assistance Robots Learn from Assistance Dogs?

These studies are part of our broader project that aims at revealing relevant aspects of human-dog interactions, which could help to develop and test robot social behaviour. We suggest that the cooperation between assistance dogs and their disabled owners could serve as a model to design successful assistance robot–human interactions. In Study 1, we analysed the behaviour of 32 assistance dog–o...

Charitable food assistance: what are food bank users receiving?

What are Stem Cells?

  Stem cells are undifferentiated self regenerating multi potential cells. There are three types of stem cells categories by the ability to form after cells and correlated with the body’s development process. Totipotent: these stem cells can form an entire organism such as fertilized egg. Ploripotent: ploripotent cells are those that can form any cell in the body but cannot form an entire organ...

Domestic violence, nurses, and ethics: what are the links.

Throughout our world, violence confronts us daily. We hear about it on the news. We read about it in newspapers and on the Internet. We experience it subtly and overtly in all cultures and across nations in incidents ranging from ethnic slurs to hate crimes to violence carried out in the name of ideology. Such incidents of violence tend to be easily seen as they fall within the public domain. L...

Domestic robots developing EM construals

This paper considers the possibility of getting robots to develop Empirical Model ling (EM) construals. This would allow robots to make models of their surroundings which would help them to perform their tasks better. I look at the possibilities of robots in the home using EM to learn their environment and to help them locate where they are and where they need to go. The first section of this p...