Toward Monitoring and Increasing Exercise Adherence in Older Adults by Robotic Intervention: A Proof of Concept Study
Toward Monitoring and Increasing Exercise Adherence in Older Adults by Robotic Intervention: A Proof of Concept Study
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DOI：
10.1155/2011/438514
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
MacDorman, Karl F.
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作者：
Gadde, Prathik;Kharrazi, Hadi;MacDorman, Karl F.
社会辅助机器人有可能通过鼓励和指导老年人进行康复锻炼，同时提供认知刺激和陪伴，来提高老年人的生活质量。这项研究的重点是开发和测试互动式私人教练机器人的早期阶段，以监测和提高老年人的锻炼坚持性。机器人身体演示练习，让用户跟随，并使用视觉处理单元检测面部和手部运动来监控用户的进度。当用户成功完成一个动作时，机器人会给出积极的反馈，并开始下一次重复。10名参与者的可用性测试结果支持这种方法的可行性。进一步的扩展计划是评估一个完整的锻炼计划，以改善老年人的身体活动范围在一个受控的实验与三个条件：一个私人教练机器人，一个私人教练在屏幕上的字符，和一个纸和纸的锻炼计划。
Socially assistive robots have the potential to improve the quality of life of older adults by encouraging and guiding their performance of rehabilitation exercises while offering cognitive stimulation and companionship. This study focuses on the early stages of developing and testing an interactive personal trainer robot to monitor and increase exercise adherence in older adults. The robot physically demonstrates exercises for the user to follow and monitors the user's progress using a vision-processing unit that detects face and hand movements. When the user successfully completes a move, the robot gives positive feedback and begins the next repetition. The results of usability testing with 10 participants support the feasibility of this approach. Further extensions are planned to evaluate a complete exercise program for improving older adults' physical range of motion in a controlled experiment with three conditions: a personal trainer robot, a personal trainer on-screen character, and a pencil-and-paper exercise plan.