Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction

Use of Assistive Technology and Need for Social Support for Elderly With Physical Disabilities

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine the use of assistive technology, social support in everyday life and psychological existential orientation for individuals with physical disabilities.  Methods: Forty-six elderly persons with physical disabilities (aged 73.7±10.6 years, range 53-93 years) were examined with regard to the use of assistive technology, social support...

use of assistive technology and need for social support for elderly with physical disabilities

objectives: the purpose of this study is to examine the use of assistive technology, social support in everyday life and psychological existential orientation for individuals with physical disabilities.  methods: forty-six elderly persons with physical disabilities (aged 73.7±10.6 years, range 53-93 years) were examined with regard to the use of assistive technology, social support in everyday ...

Experimental Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Assistive Technology

Experimental design for human subject research must consider many factors. Who is the end-user? Is this population accessible for user testing? How many conditions will be tested? How many participants are needed? What types of data can be collected? How should the data be analyzed? This paper surveys experiments conducted in human-robot interaction (HRI), assistive technology (AT), and humanro...

Physical Human – Robot Interaction

C lose physical interaction between robots and humans is a particularly challenging aspect of robot development. For successful interaction and cooperation, the robot must have the ability to adapt its behavior to the human counterpart. Based on our earlier work, we present and evaluate a computationally efficient machine learning algorithm that is well suited for such close-contact interaction...

Human-Robot Interaction for Semi-Autonomous Assistive Robots