Robots that Talk and Listen: Technology and Social Impact

by Judith Markowitz (Editor), Sean Andrist (Contribution by), Guido Bugmann (Contribution by), Jonathan Connell (Contribution by), David Dufty (Contribution by)

Overview

The book provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives.Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technical features robots need for engaging in a dialogue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614519157
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/12/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	358
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Judith A. Markowitz, President, J. Markowitz Consultants, Chicago, IL

Table of Contents

I. Robots and Healthcare

1. The Use of Robots in the Healthcare Delivery System: How Changing Demographics Have Created a Need for Automata

2. How to Find the Right Robot to Assist Doctors, Surgeons and Healthcare Workers?

II: Empirical Studies of Robotic Health Assistants at High-Level Facilities

3. Comparing the Performance of Voice-only Robotic Nurses with Multimodal Embodied Agents

4. Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Robotic Care: A First-Hand Experience at a High Level Health Facility that Adopted RP-VITA to Perform Clinical Assessments of Critically Ill Patients

5. Introducing Gestonurse to the Operating Theater: Measuring its Effects on Surgical Communication Errors when Performing Endoscopic Procedures

II. Robotic Agents and Medical Triage in Military Combat Zones

6. The Effect of Military Medical Robots on Critical Care Management in the Military

7. Medical Triage and Robotic Agents: A Case Study of Speech-Driven Automata for Handling Military Casualties

8. Using Multimodal Robots in the Military: Adapting to Noisy Environments Where Speech Signals Are Degraded

III. Automata and the Elderly

9. Keeping the Elderly Independent: The Effect of Voice-Controlled Robots on Eldercare

10. Using Speech and Automata to Perform Clinical Assessment of Homebound Elderly

11. A Case Study of Speech-Enabled Robots and their Comforting Early-Stage Dementia Patients

IV. Conclusion