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Goldie Nejat
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Latest papers
Adoption of assistive technologies in long-term care homes: What the pandemic has taught us.
Healthcare management forum · 2024 · first author
Care Providers' Perspectives on the Design of Assistive Persuasive Behaviors for Socially Assistive Robots.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024 · senior author
A Concurrent Mission-Planning Methodology for Robotic Swarms Using Collaborative Motion-Control Strategies.
Journal of intelligent & robotic systems · 2023
Latest funding
- $150,000
ADVENTOR: Advanced Engineering and Training in Next-Generation Mobile Robotics for Human Spaces
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
The transformation of healthcare: Assessing the adoption and impact of Robotics & AI
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $178,477
Let Me Help You During this Time: Remote Interactions with Socially Assistive Robots by Older Adults During Pandemic Times
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
12 publications.
Adoption of assistive technologies in long-term care homes: What the pandemic has taught us.
Nejat G, Zehavi A, Getson C, Shoef-Kollwitz H
Care Providers' Perspectives on the Design of Assistive Persuasive Behaviors for Socially Assistive Robots.
Getson C, Nejat G
A Concurrent Mission-Planning Methodology for Robotic Swarms Using Collaborative Motion-Control Strategies.
Eshaghi K, Nejat G, Benhabib B
SoftSAR: The New Softer Side of Socially Assistive Robots-Soft Robotics with Social Human-Robot Interaction Skills.
Sun YC, Effati M, Naguib HE, Nejat G
A Meta-Analysis on Remote HRI and In-Person HRI: What Is a Socially Assistive Robot to Do?
Liang N, Nejat G
The adoption of socially assistive robots for long-term care: During COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic society.
Getson C, Nejat G
An analysis of design recommendations for socially assistive robot helpers for effective human-robot interactions in senior care.
Robinson F, Nejat G
Persuasive robots should avoid authority: The effects of formal and real authority on persuasion in human-robot interaction
Saunderson SP, Nejat G
Exoskeleton use in post-stroke gait rehabilitation: a qualitative study of the perspectives of persons post-stroke and physiotherapists
Vaughan-Graham J, Brooks D, Rose L, Nejat G, Pons J, Patterson K
Robot Imitation Learning of Social Gestures with Self-Collision Avoidance Using a 3D Sensor.
Zhang T, Louie WY, Nejat G, Benhabib B
ADVENTOR: Advanced Engineering and Training in Next-Generation Mobile Robotics for Human Spaces
Principal investigators: Wu, Amy AR
Keywords: collaborative robots; human-robotic interaction; human studies; intelligent systems; mechatronics; mobile robotics; robot ethics; social robotics; technology and society; unstructured environments
The transformation of healthcare: Assessing the adoption and impact of Robotics & AI
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie G
Keywords: AI in Healthcare; Automation; Cross-country Analysis; Healthcare Robotics; Impact on Patient Health; Productivity, Performance, Cost; Technology Adoption
Let Me Help You During this Time: Remote Interactions with Socially Assistive Robots by Older Adults During Pandemic Times
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
Keywords: Socially Assistive Robots Remote Human-Robot Interaction Older Adults Activities of Daily Living Cognitive Interventions Social Isolation and Loneliness Human-Robot Interaction Research Methodologies Robot Intelligence
Autonomous Robots for Trailer Unloading
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
Multi-Function Mobile Manipulator Robot Platform
Principal investigators: Michaud, François
CREATE in Healthcare Robotics (HeRo)
Principal investigators: Sun, Yu Y
Keywords: artificial intelligence; assistive robotics; computer vision and perception; healthcare robotics; human-robot interaction; intelligent control; machine learning; mechanical design; rehabilitation robotics; surgical robotics
Let Us Help You: The Development of Intelligent Robots as Effective Assistants for Society
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
Keywords: Assistive and Service Robots; Health and Eldercare Robots; Human-Robot Interaction; Intelligent Perception for Robots; Multi-Robot Activity Planning; Robot Behaviour Learning; Robot Control Architectures; Robot Group Behaviours; Robot Social Intelligence; User Affect
Robots for Society
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
Robots for Society
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
Keywords: Assistive and Service Robots Robot Social Intelligence ; Human-Robot Interaction Robot Group Behaviours User ; Affect Multi-Robot Activity Planning Robot Control ; Architectures Health and Eldercare Robots Intelligent ; Perception for Robots Robot Behaviour Learning
Robots for Society
Principal investigators: Nejat, Goldie
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Dina Brooks and Kara Patterson: 3 shared papers
- Beno Benhabib and Goldie Nejat: 3 shared papers
- Dina Brooks and Goldie Nejat: 1 shared paper
- Shane Saunderson and Goldie Nejat: 1 shared paper
- Kara Patterson and Goldie Nejat: 1 shared paper
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Rehabilitation Science
- Department of Physical Therapy
- Information Systems
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