robotics
21 3 08

UoA's Phobot, a phobic robot




phobot [wiki], a phobic robot developed by researchers from the university of amsterdam, the netherlands, was voted the publics favourite at the 3rd acm/ieee international conference on human-robot interaction 2008 [ 1 ] in amsterdam.

phobot is meant as a concept exploring possible support tools for kids with object or location-related phobias.
phobot and the phobic child will help each other overcome fears by following exposure program steps.

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