Assessing acceptance of assistive social robots by aging adults

Thesis

Cover

Titel pages

Acknowledgements

Contents

Publications

1. Introduction

2: Robots and acceptance by elderly users

3: Measuring the influence of social abilities I

4: Developing a new model I

5: Measuring the influence of social abilities II

6: Exploring adaptiveness, adaptability and user control

7: Using experiments

8: Developing a new model II

9: Summarized findings and final conclusions

Samenvatting (Dutch summary)

References

Appendix A: Overview of assistive social robots for older adults

Appendix B: Overview user studies concerning assistive social robots

Appendix C: Overview of experiments

Appendix D: UTAUT questionnaire

Appendix E: Almere model comprehensive toolkit