Psychological and Social Effects of One Year Robot Assisted Activity on Elderly People at a Health Service Facility for the Aged

By Kazuyoshi Wada, Takanori Shibata, Tomoko Saito, K. Sakamoto, K. Tanie. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

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Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology

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