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Author:   Judith Markowitz ,  Sean Andrist ,  Guido Bugmann ,  Jonathan Connell
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.741kg
ISBN:  

9781614516033

ISBN 10:   1614516030
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   17 November 2014
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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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  

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

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