Overcoming barriers and increasing independence–service robots for elderly and disabled people

M Hersh - International Journal of Advanced Robotic …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper discusses the potential of assistive service robots to support disabled and elderly
people. It shows that they have considerable untapped potential in this area, but also that …

Stereotypes or golden rules? Exploring likable voice traits of social robots as active aging companions for tech-savvy baby boomers in Taiwan

RCS Chang, HP Lu, P Yang - Computers in Human Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Social robots are foreseen to be a growing category of assistive devices for baby boomers in
helping them live independently at home and in good health for longer. Artificial intelligence …

Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities

KH Park, Z Bien, JJ Lee, BK Kim, JT Lim, JO Kim… - Autonomous …, 2007 - Springer
This paper introduces a new robotic smart house, Intelligent Sweet Home, developed at
KAIST in Korea, which is based on several robotic agents and aims at testing advanced …

Does social desirability bias favor humans? Explicit–implicit evaluations of synthesized speech support a new HCI model of impression management

WJ Mitchell, CC Ho, H Patel, KF MacDorman - Computers in Human …, 2011 - Elsevier
Do people treat computers as social actors? To answer this question, researchers have
measured the extent to which computers elicit social responses in people, such as …

Monitoring user activities in smart home environments

S Hussain, SZ Erdogen, JH Park - Information Systems Frontiers, 2009 - Springer
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) enable smart environments to create pervasive and
ubiquitous applications, which give context-aware and scalable services to the end users. In …

Metric propositional neighborhood logics on natural numbers

D Bresolin, D Della Monica, V Goranko… - Software & Systems …, 2013 - Springer
Interval logics formalize temporal reasoning on interval structures over linearly (or partially)
ordered domains, where time intervals are the primitive ontological entities and truth of …

[PDF][PDF] Smart home security system using multiple ANFIS

L Sang-Hyun, J Lee, M Kyung-Il - International Journal of Smart Home, 2013 - Citeseer
Many smart home devices provide home automation technology, but the smart home
security system offers many benefits that can ensure the safety of the homeowner. Thus …

A distributed approach for assistive service provision in pervasive environment

M Ghorbel, M Mokhtari, S Renouard - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose assistive service provision architecture in pervasive environments.
This architecture is based on a distributed approach and ensures service design …

The effects of timbre on voice interaction

R Zhao, E Erleke, L Wang, J Huang, Z Chen - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
With the development of voice interaction and speech synthesis technology, the impact of
different audio timbres on user experience is particularly important. This study focuses on …

Metric propositional neighborhood logics: Expressiveness, decidability, and undecidability

D Bresolin, D Della Monica, V Goranko… - ECAI 2010, 2010 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Interval temporal logics formalize reasoning about interval structures over (usually) linearly
ordered domains, where time intervals are the primitive ontological entities and truth of …