Speech and Automata in Health Care

Preface (including Acknowledgments)
 Editor\'s Introduction
 List of authors
 Part I. The evolution and design of service robots in health care: evaluating the role of speech and other modalities in human-robot interaction
 1. A critical analysis of speech-based interaction in healthcare robots: making a case for the increased use of speech in medical and assistive robots
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Background
 1.2.1 Robots and health care
 1.2.2 Speech- based interaction with machines
 1.2.3 Technologies for spoken interaction with machines. 1.3 Spoken interaction in healthcare robots --
a brief review1.3.1 Method
 1.3.2 Overview of results
 1.3.3 Findings
 1.4 Discussion
 1.4.1 Strengths
 1.4.2 Weaknesses
 1.4.3 Opportunities
 1.4.4 Threats
 1.5 Charting out a roadmap
 1.5.1 Future directions: a roadmap
 1.5.1.1 Evolution of speech and language technologies
 1.5.1.2 More natural spoken interaction
 1.5.1.3 Integrate into a multimodal interaction
 1.5.1.4 Connect robots to services supporting speech interaction
 1.5.1.5 Interaction design
 1.5.1.6 Reduce the gap between robotic technology, health care and the users. 1.5.2 ConclusionAcknowledgments
 References
 2. Speech- based interaction with service robots: a survey of methods and approaches
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Methods and approaches
 2.2.1 Command interpretation
 2.2.1.1 Speech acts and probabilistic logic
 2.2.1.2 Semantics and pragmatics of pick-and-place tasks
 2.2.1.3 Interpretation of location and direction instructions
 2.2.1.4 Extraction of spatial description clauses from linguistic input
 2.2.1.5 Passive knowledge rarefication with direct memory access parsing
 2.2.2 Command disambiguation
 2.2.2.1 Template- based disambiguation. 2.2.2.2 Disambiguation through NP grounding2.2.2.3 Symbol grounding with probabilistic graphical models
 2.2.3 Dialogue with the user
 2.2.3.1 Spatial dialogue with 2D Sonar grid models
 2.2.3.2 Human- robot interaction through gesture- free spoken dialogue
 2.3 Talk the walk: robotic NLP vs. human sublanguage acquisition
 2.3.1 Interaction with bystanders
 2.3.2 Corpus- based robotics
 2.3.3 Sublanguage acquisition
 2.4 Discussion
 2.4.1 User command disambiguation
 2.4.2 User command disambiguation
 2.4.3 Dialogue with the user
 2.4.4 Sublanguage acquisition
 References. 3. Improving patient-robot interaction in health care: service robot feature effects on patient acceptance and emotional responses3.1 Introduction
 3.1.1 Motivation
 3.1.2 Current state of PRI in healthcare-related tasks
 3.1.2.1 Telemedicine/Telepresence
 3.1.2.2 Intelligent walker
 3.1.2.3 Cognitive reminder
 3.1.2.4 Social interaction and therapy
 3.2 Design requirements and existing system guidelines
 3.2.1 Role of human emotion in acceptance of robots in healthcare applications
 3.2.1.1 Design of robot anthropomorphic features and effects on human responses.