peer reviewed · Clinical Interventions in Aging (2021) · May 24, 2021
Friends from the Future: A Scoping Review of Research into Robots and Computer Agents to Combat Loneliness in Older People
In plain English
A scoping review finding that most studies of robots or computer agents reduced loneliness on at least one measure, mainly by acting as a companion. Robots had more evidence than computer agents.
loneliness
older adults
scoping review
embodied conversational agents
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