A novel multimodal communication framework using robot partner for aging population

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Highlights：

• It is expected that the population of elderly in the world will double in 2050.

• This paper proposes a human-friendly robot partner to assist the elderly.

• A new communication framework between the human and robot partner is developed.

• Informationally structured space was proposed to realize natural communication.

• Experiments using three case studies show the strength of the proposed framework.

摘要

•It is expected that the population of elderly in the world will double in 2050.•This paper proposes a human-friendly robot partner to assist the elderly.•A new communication framework between the human and robot partner is developed.•Informationally structured space was proposed to realize natural communication.•Experiments using three case studies show the strength of the proposed framework.

论文关键词：Human–robot interaction,Robot partner,Intelligent robot,Aging,Gesture recognition

论文评审过程：Available online 19 January 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.01.016