Speech and automata in health care /

Speech and automata in the healthcare environment provides information for the integration of embodied agents into the healthcare delivery system.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Neustein, Amy
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Speech technology and text mining in medicine and health care
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614515159
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Summary: Speech and automata in the healthcare environment provides information for the integration of embodied agents into the healthcare delivery system.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xxii,266pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781614515159
Index Number: R857
CLC: TP11
Contents: Frontmatter --
Preface --
Introduction /
Contents --
List of authors --
1. A critical analysis of speech- based interaction in healthcare robots: making a case for the increased use of speech in medical and assistive robots /
2. Speech- based interaction with service robots: a survey of methods and approaches /
3. Improving patient-robot interaction in health care: service robot feature effects on patient acceptance and emotional responses /
4. Designing embodied and virtual agents for the operating room: taking a closer look at multimodal medical-service robots and other cyber-physical systems /
5. The emerging role of robotics for personal health management in the older-adult population /
6. Enabling older adults to interact with robots: why input methods are critical for usability /
7. Human-robot interaction for assistance with activities of daily living: a case study of the socially and cognitively engaging Brian 2.1 in the long-term care setting /
8. Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions: an examination of the role of prosody /
9. ASR and TTS for voice controlled child-robot interactions in italian: empirical study findings on the Aliz-e project for treating children with metabolic disorders in the hospital setting /
Editor s biography.