Assessing the quality and quantity of social interaction in a socially assistive robot-guided therapeutic setting.
Assessing the quality and quantity of social interaction in a socially assistive robot-guided therapeutic setting.
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评估社交辅助机器人引导的治疗环境中社交互动的质量和数量。
DOI：
10.1109/icorr.2011.5975358
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2011
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Mataric,MajaJ
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Wade,Eric;Dye,Jonathan;Mead,Ross;Mataric,MajaJ
我们提出了一个社会辅助机器人(SAR)系统在治疗环境中的应用。我们考察了机器人在治疗环境中与中风后患者的互动量。我们考察了各种沟通方式的作用，以及它们对参与者反应的影响。在三次运动任务练习中，七名因中风导致的轻到中度功能障碍的参与者与我们的SAR系统进行了互动。机器人在用户完成一项金属丝拼图任务时进行指导，同时向他们提供关于他们表现的反馈。我们评估了与机器人进行的言语交流和眼神接触的数量。我们的结果表明，用户在与机器人互动时，眼神交流比言语交流更频繁。此外，用户交互在练习开始时最频繁，而随着练习的进行，用户交互发生的频率较低。当用户观察到机器人没有响应特定类型的通信时，用户限制该通信方式的使用。这些见解应该对未来基于机器人的治疗干预的设计有用。
We present an application of a socially assistive robotics (SAR) system in a therapeutic setting. We examine the amount of interaction elicited by the robot in a therapeutic setting with individuals post-stroke. We examine the role of various communication modalities, and their affects on the participants' responses. Seven participants of mild to moderate functional impairment due to stroke interacted with our SAR system during three sessions of motor task practice. The robot guided the users as they performed a wire puzzle task, while providing them with feedback about their performance. We evaluated the amount of verbalization and eye contact made with the robot. Our results indicate that users make eye contact more often than they verbalize when interacting with the robot. Further, user interactions are most frequent at the beginning of a practice session, and occur less frequently as the session progresses. When a user observes that the robot is not responding to a certain type of communication, the user limits the use of that communication modality. These insights should be useful in the design of future robot-based therapeutic interventions.