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SUBMITTER: Shiomi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4439048 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shiomi Masahiro M Iio Takamasa T Kamei Koji K Sharma Chandraprakash C Hagita Norihiro N
PloS one 20150520 5
We developed a wheelchair robot to support the movement of elderly people and specifically implemented two functions to enhance their intention to use it: speaking behavior to convey place/location related information and speed adjustment based on individual preferences. Our study examines how the evaluations of our wheelchair robot differ when compared with human caregivers and a conventional autonomous wheelchair without the two proposed functions in a moving support context. 28 senior citizen ...[more]