If robots are ever going to be used as assistive devices in people's homes, then teaching them to communicate with people is just as important as teaching them to peform tasks. Cory-Ann Smarr, graduate student of Professor Wendy Rogers in the Human Factors and Aging Lab at Georgia Tech's School of Psychology, shares the results of a study that compared how well older adults could read the facial expressions of a virtual agent with the same ability of 20-somethings.
The study was presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in Las Vegas.''
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Video: David Terraso/Georgia Tech
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