Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

What are the benefits of using a socially assistive robot for long-term cardiac rehabilitation?
To answer this question we designed and conducted a real-world long-term study, in …

Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by
introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and …

User identification is an essential step in creating a personalised long-term interaction with
robots. This requires learning the users continuously and incrementally, possibly starting …

Robot-assisted training, where social robots can be used as motivational coaches, provides
an interesting application area. This paper examines how feedback given by a robot agent …

This paper presents a longitudinal case study of Robot Assisted Therapy for cardiac
rehabilitation. The patient, who is a 60-year old male that suffered a myocardial infarction …

Social robotics poses tough challenges to software designers who are required to take care
of difficult architectural drivers like acceptability, trust of robots as well as to guarantee that …

With current growth in social robotics comes a need for well developed and fine tuned
agents which respond to the user in a seamless and intuitive manner. Socially assistive …

Lack of motivation and low adherence rates are critical concerns of longterm rehabilitation
programmes, such as cardiac rehabilitation. Socially assistive robots are known to be …

Social robotics is an emerging area that foster the integration of robots and humans in the
same environment. With this objective, robots include capacities such as the detection of …