A cross-cultural evaluation of domestic assistive robots
Published 1 January 2008
Gabriella Cortellessa, Massimiliano Scopelliti, Lorenza Tiberio, Gion Koch Svedberg, Amy Loutfi, Federico Pecora
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This paper presents the first steps in a series of on-going user evaluations of intelligent environments for supporting elderly users at home, and specifically focuses on a comparison of elderly users' perceptions of an intelligent environment.
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This paper presents the first steps in a series of on-going user evaluations of intelligent environments for supporting elderly users at home. We specifically focus on a comparison of elderly perceptions of social assistive domestic robots between Italian and Swedish user groups. The evaluation was
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