The world's population is aging, and developed countries are engaged in developing a new
aged-care paradigm to reduce spiraling healthcare costs. Assistive technologies like …

Context: Assistive social robots, a particular type of assistive robotics designed for social
interaction with humans could play an important role with respect to health and …

Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) may help improve care delivery at home for older adults
with cognitive impairment and reduce the burden of informal caregivers. Examining the …

This paper proposes a model of technology acceptance that is specifically developed to test
the acceptance of assistive social agents by elderly users. The research in this paper …

Taking care of older adults is among the major challenges currently faced by ageing
populations. Researchers, designers, and engineers have proposed socially assistive …

The human robot interaction community is multidisciplinary by nature and has members from
social science to engineering backgrounds. In this paper we aim to provide human robot …

If robotic companions are to be used in the near future by aging adults, they have to be
accepted by them. In the process of developing a methodology to measure, predict and …

Robots are starting to be developed for aged care populations and some of these have been
made into commercial products that have been well received. However, little is known about …

Objective The study aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the factors impacting
technology adoption, to predict the acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI)-based …

With the increase in an aging population, there is an urgent need for innovative solutions to
help the elderly to improve their lives. Digital games have already been suggested as …