Amy Neustein, Fort Lee, NJ.

• I. Robots and Healthcare1. The Use of Robots in the Healthcare Delivery System: How Changing Demographics Have Created a Need for Automata 2. How to Find the Right Robot to Assist Doctors, Surgeons and Healthcare Workers?II: Empirical Studies of Robotic Health Assistants at High-Level Facilities3. Comparing the Performance of Voice-only Robotic Nurses with Multimodal Embodied Agents4. Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Robotic Care: A First-Hand Experience at a High Level Health Facility that Adopted RP-VITA to Perform Clinical Assessments of Critically Ill Patients5. Introducing Gestonurse to the Operating Theater: Measuring its Effects on Surgical Communication Errors when Performing Endoscopic ProceduresII. Robotic Agents and Medical Triage in Military Combat Zones6. The Effect of Military Medical Robots on Critical Care Management in the Military 7. Medical Triage and Robotic Agents: A Case Study of Speech-Driven Automata for Handling Military Casualties8. Using Multimodal Robots in the Military: Adapting to Noisy Environments Where Speech Signals Are Degraded III. Automata and the Elderly9. Keeping the Elderly Independent: The Effect of Voice-Controlled Robots on Eldercare10. Using Speech and Automata to Perform Clinical Assessment of Homebound Elderly11. A Case Study of Speech-Enabled Robots and their Comforting Early-Stage Dementia PatientsIV. Conclusion

Amy Neustein, Fort Lee, NJ.

• I. Robots and Healthcare1. The Use of Robots in the Healthcare Delivery System: How Changing Demographics Have Created a Need for Automata 2. How to Find the Right Robot to Assist Doctors, Surgeons and Healthcare Workers?II: Empirical Studies of Robotic Health Assistants at High-Level Facilities3. Comparing the Performance of Voice-only Robotic Nurses with Multimodal Embodied Agents4. Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Robotic Care: A First-Hand Experience at a High Level Health Facility that Adopted RP-VITA to Perform Clinical Assessments of Critically Ill Patients5. Introducing Gestonurse to the Operating Theater: Measuring its Effects on Surgical Communication Errors when Performing Endoscopic ProceduresII. Robotic Agents and Medical Triage in Military Combat Zones6. The Effect of Military Medical Robots on Critical Care Management in the Military 7. Medical Triage and Robotic Agents: A Case Study of Speech-Driven Automata for Handling Military Casualties8. Using Multimodal Robots in the Military: Adapting to Noisy Environments Where Speech Signals Are Degraded III. Automata and the Elderly9. Keeping the Elderly Independent: The Effect of Voice-Controlled Robots on Eldercare10. Using Speech and Automata to Perform Clinical Assessment of Homebound Elderly11. A Case Study of Speech-Enabled Robots and their Comforting Early-Stage Dementia PatientsIV. Conclusion

Amy Neustein, Fort Lee, NJ.

• I. Robots and Healthcare1. The Use of Robots in the Healthcare Delivery System: How Changing Demographics Have Created a Need for Automata 2. How to Find the Right Robot to Assist Doctors, Surgeons and Healthcare Workers?II: Empirical Studies of Robotic Health Assistants at High-Level Facilities3. Comparing the Performance of Voice-only Robotic Nurses with Multimodal Embodied Agents4. Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Robotic Care: A First-Hand Experience at a High Level Health Facility that Adopted RP-VITA to Perform Clinical Assessments of Critically Ill Patients5. Introducing Gestonurse to the Operating Theater: Measuring its Effects on Surgical Communication Errors when Performing Endoscopic ProceduresII. Robotic Agents and Medical Triage in Military Combat Zones6. The Effect of Military Medical Robots on Critical Care Management in the Military 7. Medical Triage and Robotic Agents: A Case Study of Speech-Driven Automata for Handling Military Casualties8. Using Multimodal Robots in the Military: Adapting to Noisy Environments Where Speech Signals Are Degraded III. Automata and the Elderly9. Keeping the Elderly Independent: The Effect of Voice-Controlled Robots on Eldercare10. Using Speech and Automata to Perform Clinical Assessment of Homebound Elderly11. A Case Study of Speech-Enabled Robots and their Comforting Early-Stage Dementia PatientsIV. Conclusion