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Cynthia Breazeal.
Wang, Andrew (Andrew Fuh-Hwa)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2007-04-03T17:10:12Z
2007-04-03T17:10:12Z
2006
2006
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37087
83995990
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-84).
For better or worse, more people are spending their days in front of computers. With this increase in computer use, more people are complaining of back and neck pain. The simple act of changing your posture, however, can dramatically reduce the risk of back or neck injury from prolonged computer use. RoCo, the robotic computer, can encourage computer users to change posture by moving its screen to different positions. Having introduced motion, RoCo can now also begin to build a social relationship with the user and affect his affective state. This thesis describes the workings of RoCo and the results of an initial user study to produce affective movement.
by Andrew Wang.
M.Eng.
84 leaves
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Physically animated desktop computer for ergonomic & affective movement
RoCo : a physically animated desktop computer for ergonomic and affective movement
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