Essays about: "assistive robots"

Found 4 essays containing the words assistive robots.

  1. 1. Exploring Mothers’ Perspectives on Social Assistive Robots in Postpartum Depression Healthcare

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Människa-datorinteraktion; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Tobiaz Paulsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Assistive Robots; Postpartum Depression; Maternity Healthcare; Qualitative Research; Thematic Analysis; Human-Robot Interaction;

    Abstract : Postpartum Depression (PPD) affects 8-15 percent of new mothers in Sweden every year. The majority of PPD cases go undetected, and only a few percent receive adequate care. New ways to detect and diagnose PPD are required. In my previous work, PPD experts expressed willingness to integrate social assistive robots (SARs) into their medical team. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Potentially Disadvantaged Groups : An Analysis of How Industry 4.0 Can Promote Decent Work and Equality for Women and Older Employees

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Eva Koller; [2022]
    Keywords : Industry 4.0; Decent Work; Inequality; Gender; Ageing ;

    Abstract : Digitalisation, and the related idea that digitalisation will cause a technological transformation that will lead to a “fourth industrial revolution” (Industry 4.0), is a global major topic with a huge impact on many parts of our life. READ MORE

  4. 3. Behind Every Social Robot Finds itself a Community of Developers: A socio-legal exploration on developers of humanoid social robots with a focus on the context of depression diagnosis and its embedded gender norms.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Laetitia Tanqueray; [2021]
    Keywords : Socially Assistive Robots; HRI; Sociology of Law; Depression Diagnosis; Gender norms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The rise in new digital technology is bringing with it new ethical questions around how we, as a society, can trust them. However, what if the question was before the technology itself? What if the role of the developers was influencing the way those new technologies were being programmed? This thesis situates itself at the point of exploration, where developers of humanoid social robots look for ways to advance the human-robot interaction as a field as well as getting social robots commercial-ised. READ MORE

  5. 4. Investigating Deep Learning algorithms for end-to-end language-based interaction with domestic robots

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Sandra Picó Oristrell; [2019]
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    Abstract : A socially assistive robot capable of helping with domestic work through understanding natural language instructions is still considered a difficult challenge. This work investigates how deep learning algorithms could help us to achieve this goal. READ MORE