Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare
Papers from the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium
Timothy Bickmore, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-05-02. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Stability Margin Monitoring in Steering-Controlled Intelligent Walkers for the Elderly / 1
Majd Alwan, Prabhu Jude Rajendran, Alexandre Ledoux, Cunjun Huang, Glenn Wasson, and Pradip Sheth
MedEthEx: Toward a Medical Ethics Advisor / 9
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen
Ethical Issues in Using Relational Agents for Older Adults / 17
Timothy Bickmore
Training Healthcare Professionals to Use Telehealth Technology: The Missing Link / 20
Michael D. Cantor, Subha Chittamooru, and Jeremy Nobel
The ROBOCARE Project: Intelligent Systems for Elder Care / 25
Amedeo Cesta and Federico Pecora
A Rule-Based Approach to the Analysis of Elders’ Activity Data: Detection of Health and Possible Emergency Conditions / 29
Siddharth Dalal, Majd Alwan, Reza Seifrafi, Steve Kell, and Donald Brown
The Technologist's Guide to Setting up an Eldercare Field Study / 37
Karen Zita Haigh, Liana Maria Kiff, Kathleen Krichbaum, and Janet Wuorenma
A Model of Trust and Reliance of Automation Technology for Older Users / 45
Geoffrey Ho, Liana Maria Kiff, Tom Plocher, and Karen Zita Haigh
POMDP Models for Assistive Technology / 51
Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier, and Alex Mihailidis
Shared Navigational Control and User Intent Detection in an Intelligent Walker / 59
Cunjun Huang, Glenn Wasson, Majd Alwan, Pradip Sheth, and Alexandre Ledoux
Robots Who Care: Robotic Psychology and Robotherapy Approach / 67
Alexander Libin and Elena Libin
The Role of Embodiment in Assistive Interactive Robotics for the Elderly / 75
Maja J. Mataric
An Approach to the Development of Technology to Empower the Elderly / 78
Edward Riseman, Allen Hanson, Roderick Grupen, Phebe Sessions, Julie Abramson, Mary Olson, and Candace Sidner
An Agent-based System to Strength the Relationships of the Elders and their Families Living Abroad / 80
Marcela D. Rodríguez, Pedro C. Santana, Victor M. González, Jesús Favela, and Ángel G. Andrade
Assessing Mobility and Cognitive Problems in Elders / 88
Marjorie Skubic
The Design of the Huggable: A Therapeutic Robotic Companion for Relational, Affective Touch / 91
Walter Dan Stiehl, Jeff Lieberman, Cynthia Breazeal, Louis Basel, Levi Lalla, and Michael Wolf
Appropriate Accommodations: Speech Technologies and the Needs of Older Adults / 99
Cristen Torrey, Susan R. Fussell, and Sara Kiesler