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First Experiences Towards Potential Impact of an Outdoor Shopping Assistant

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In this paper we present the results of a preliminary study conducted to investigate the acceptance of a robotic shopping assistant among elderly people. The results show that most participants acclaim the development of assistive robots.

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Acknowledgment

We like to thank Johanna Thomack and her team of the AWO Mehrgenerationenhaus in Coburg for supporting our study and all the volunteers participating. This work is supported in part by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst).

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    Johannes Schmölz, Barbara Kühnlenz & Kolja Kühnlenz

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Schmölz, J., Kühnlenz, B., Kühnlenz, K. (2016). First Experiences Towards Potential Impact of an Outdoor Shopping Assistant. In: Alboul, L., Damian, D., Aitken, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_31

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