Meal-Time with a Socially Assistive Robot and Older Adults at a Long-term Care Facility
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Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2013, Pages 152-171, DOI 10.5898/JHRI.2.1.McColl Meal-Time with a Socially Assistive Robot and Older Adults at a Long-term Care Facility Derek McColl and Goldie Nejat 1,2 Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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