Review of Human-Robot Interactive Modelling and Application for Elders

Jing Han, Lun Xie, Shangmou Xu, Zhiliang Wang

COMPUTER MODELLING & NEW TECHNOLOGIES 2014 18(12C) 408-413

School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, No.30 Xueyuan road, Beijing, China

As the psychological problems of the aged are increasingly obvious in the aging society, the human-robot interaction technology making psychological adjustment for the aged becomes one of the most important directions of robotics’ research. Firstly, this paper describes the current development situation of interaction technology that can be applied for the service robot of elderly psychological adjustment. Next the methods of feature recognition and sentiment analysis in facial expression interaction, speech interaction, and other interactions are discussed. Then several typical emotion models are analyzed in detail. Finally, the possible research directions of robot interaction technology for elderly psychological adjustment are summarized and prospected.