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

这个项目的首要科学目标有两个：(1)开发一种具有道德情感控制机制、抽象道德推理和心智理论的机器人架构，使机器人能够对人类的情感和伦理需求敏感；(2)开发一种特定的协同机器人架构实例，用于协调因帕金森病（PD）而“面部掩蔽”的人，这种人降低了向家人表达情感、痛苦、个性和意图的能力。医疗服务提供者经常将缺乏情感表达误解为不感兴趣和无法坚持治疗方案，从而导致污名化。为了解决这些问题，该项目汇集了两位机器人专家，他们在机器人伦理和情感建模以及在集成自主机器人系统中实现这些方面拥有丰富的经验。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、硬件和数据集资源之上，包括具有道德控制机制、个性和情感模型、情感和自然语言能力的复杂机器人控制架构。该项目的总体预期结果是一个协作机器人的架构，它可以适应各种各样的医疗保健场景，以丰富和尊重人类之间已经紧张和耻辱的关系。该项目还包括新的教育努力，如职业治疗机器人课程以及重要的K？通过塔夫茨STEM多样性中心和工程教育与推广中心，以及各种重要的社区和公共活动，如针对焦点和患者群体的医疗机器人演讲，开展12项外展活动。

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.