Assessing the acceptability of a humanoid robot for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia care using an online survey

F Yuan, JG Anderson, TH Wyatt, RP Lopez… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, an online survey was used to understand the acceptability of humanoid robots
and users' needs in using these robots to assist with care among people with Alzheimer's …

A simulated experiment to explore robotic dialogue strategies for people with dementia

F Yuan, A Sadovnik, R Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Persons with dementia (PwDs) often show symptoms of repetitive questioning,
which brings great burdens on caregivers. Conversational robots hold promise of helping …

Generating Natural Language Responses in Robot-Mediated Referential Communication Tasks to Simulate Theory of Mind

Z Liu, Y Qin, H Zou, EJ Paek, D Casenhiser… - … Conference on Social …, 2022 - Springer
With advances in neural network-based computation, socially assistive robots have been
endowed with the ability to provide natural conversation to users. However, the lack of …

Uniting Cognitive Models and AI: Early Alzheimer's Screening through Language Analysis

Z Liu - 2024 - trace.tennessee.edu
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and related dementias (PwADRD) often lead to memory issues,
language difficulties, and cognitive impairments. These symptoms can cause social …

Estimating Human Attitude during Robot-mediated Referential Communication Tasks

Z Liu, PN Collier, R Bray, EJ Paek… - 2022 IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Referential Communication Task (RCT) is a goal-oriented communicative act, where two
partners exchange information through conversation to achieve common understanding of …