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  • Patient Compliance Effects on Simulated Ebola Medical Care Delivery with a Telepresence Robot

    Creator:
    Brian, Makenzie M.
    Abstract:
    When treating highly infectious diseases, patient compliance with caregiver recommendations is crucial. Many patients who contract Ebola Virus Disease have symptoms including vomiting and severe diarrhea and die from the resulting dehydration if they do not drink enough fluids. Telepresence robots are useful in the context of Ebola treatment for...
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    Masters Thesis
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    was an association between the individual’s experience level with robots and compliance with robotic

  • Initial Designs for Improving Conversations for People Using Speech Synthesizers

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Duy M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis aims to determine the impact that Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices have on social interactions, and then improves the AAC user experience through a user focus design process. AAC devices enable people who cannot speak to communicate with others. Unfortunately, they are tedious to use and make...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

    Creator:
    Rueben, Matthew R.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Robots Against Infectious Diseases : A Technologically Grounded, Human-Centered Exploration

    Creator:
    Kraft, Kory
    Abstract:
    Robots have the potential to protect health care workers, provide patient care, and ultimately save lives in infectious disease outbreaks. Nevertheless, infectious disease outbreak scenarios present unique technological and social challenges for robotics. This work explores what robots can and should do in the fight against infectious diseases. We present...
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    Masters Thesis
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    tracking and modeling system for robotic health care support is demonstrated and evaluated. The system

  • Making the Unconscious Unconscious : Reclaiming Microinteractions for People with Motor Disabilities

    Creator:
    Lazewatsky, Daniel A.
    Abstract:
    Numerous diseases and injuries can limit a person's ability to perform everyday tasks -- things like getting dressed, bathing, and eating. Anything that requires physical activity can be affected; even simple things like turning on the lights can become difficult or impossible. Until recently, the only way for a person...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • A shared-autonomy heavy-lift assistive robot for manufacturing

    Creator:
    Finley, Taylor M.
    Abstract:
    Automating pick-and-place operations for large steel castings in a foundry is challenging, particularly from a perception point of view. Accurately estimating the identity and orientation of a given part is an open and complex problem, especially if that part sits in a bin of very similar parts. The problem is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    does not make a robotic system financially feasible [1]. The finishing process of steel castings

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

    Creator:
    Curran, William
    Abstract:
    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    Dissertation
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    presents a challenging control problem. A classical control approach would include modeling the robotic