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This paper wants to make a further contribution towards a more transparent and systematic technical evaluation of implemented services and underlying HRI and navigation functionalities of socially assistive robots for public or domestic applications. Based on a set of selected issues, our mobile walking coach robot developed in the recently finished research project ROREAS (Robotic Rehabilitation Assistant for Walking and Orientation Training of Stroke Patients) was evaluated in three-stage function and user tests, in order to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the developed assistive solution regarding the achieved autonomy and practicability for clinical use from technical point of view.
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Gross, HM., Eisenbach, M., Scheidig, A., Trinh, T.Q., Wengefeld, T. (2016). Contribution Towards Evaluating the Practicability of Socially Assistive Robots – by Example of a Mobile Walking Coach Robot. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_87
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