NRI: Small: Collaborative Research: Don't Read my Face: Tackling the Challenges of Facial Masking in Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation through Co-Robot Mediators

该项目的总体科学目标有两个方面：（1）开发一种具有道德情感控制机制、抽象道德推理和心理理论的机器人架构，使机器人对人类情感和道德需求敏感，以及（2）开发一个具体的架构实例，用于帕金森病（PD）患者之间的“面部掩蔽”协调机器人调解人这降低了他们向其家庭照顾者和保健提供者表达情感、痛苦、个性和意图的能力，而保健提供者往往将缺乏情感表达误解为不感兴趣和无法坚持治疗方案，导致污名化。为了解决这些问题，该项目汇集了两名机器人专家，他们在机器人伦理和情感建模方面拥有丰富的经验，并在集成的自主机器人系统中实现了这些经验。机器人专业知识与早期PD康复和日常社会生活专家的专业知识相结合。该项目将建立在广泛的软件，硬件和数据集资源，包括复杂的机器人控制架构与道德控制机制，个性和情感模型，以及情感和自然语言能力。该项目的总体预期成果是一个共同机器人可以适应各种各样的医疗保健场景，以丰富和尊重已经紧张和污名化的关系在人类之间。该项目还包括新的教育工作，如职业治疗机器人课程，以及显着的K？通过塔夫茨STEM多样性中心和工程教育与外展中心进行12次外展，以及各种重要的社区和公共活动，如向重点和患者群体介绍医疗保健机器人。

The overarching scientific goal of this project is two-fold: (1) to develop a robotic architecture endowed with moral emotional control mechanisms, abstract moral reasoning, and a theory of mind that allow corobots to be sensitive to human affective and ethical demands, and (2) to develop a specific instance of the architecture for a co-robot mediator between people with "facial masking" due to Parkinson's disease (PD) that reduces their ability to signal emotion, pain, personality and intentions to their family caregivers, and health care providers who often misinterpret the lack of emotional expressions as disinterest and an inability to adhere to treatment regimen, resulting in stigmatization. To tackle these problems, the project brings together two roboticists with extensive prior experience in robot ethics and modeling emotions as well as implementing them in integrated autonomous robotic systems. The robotics expertise is combined with that of an expert in early PD rehabilitation and daily social life. The project will build on extensive software, hardware and data set resources, including complex robotic control architectures with ethical control mechanisms, personality and emotion models, and affect and natural language capabilities.The general expected outcome of the project is an architecture for co-robots that can be adapted to a great variety of health care scenarios in an effort to enrich and dignify already stressed and stigmatized relationships between humans. The project also includes novel educational efforts such as a course in occupational therapy robotics as well as significant K?12 outreach through the Tufts Centers for STEM Diversity and for Engineering Education and Outreach, as well as various important community and public activities such as presentations on health care robotics to focus and patient groups.