A sociable robot to encourage social interaction among the elderly

By Cory D. Kidd, Will Taggart, S. Turkle. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006., 2006

367 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Using Socially Assistive Human–Robot Interaction to Motivate Physical Exercise for Older Adults (2012, background): “They observed that seniors who participated with the robot in a group were more likely to interact socially with each other when the robot was present and powered on, than when it was powered off or absent [32].”
"My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances (2007, background): “A study of PARO, a robotic baby seal found that it enhanced elders’ quality of life in nursing homes and enhanced children’s rehabilitation [20,32].”
Assistive social robots in elderly care: a review (2009, methodology): “2006 [42] More lively communication in the PARO-on case compared to the PARO-off case.”