Transforming Robot-mediated Telerehabilitation: Citizen Science for Rehabilitation

PorfiriRobotic设备在物理康复中发挥着越来越重要的作用，因为它们能够支持越来越多的治疗治疗，最大限度地减少治疗师的时间承诺，并记录患者的表现。为了进一步将康复治疗扩展到临床之外，并提高康复的进展，机器人介导的远程康复已经投入了相当大的努力，它允许物理治疗师同时远程监控和监督几名患者。然而，这些设备的成本和规定练习的重复性极大地阻碍了机器人介导的远程康复的实用性。该项目将通过整合低成本触觉设备和互动在线公民科学活动的治疗治疗，为改变机器人介导的远程康复开辟新的方向。在设想的范例中，参与者将通过执行作为其治疗团一部分的活动来为公民科学做出贡献，从而增加花在其他无聊的康复活动上的时间。预计这种整合不仅有助于科学研究，而且还能提高患者的自尊心。该研究项目旨在通过积极的科学参与，为中风患者提供上肢机器人介导的远程康复。这个设想中的系统包括一个与PC相连的低成本触觉操纵杆，在一个公民科学研究项目中提供在线社交互动。患者将对研究小组开发的环境监测公民科学项目做出贡献，通过分析纽约布鲁克林一条被污染的运河中水生移动机器人获取的图像，同时与其他患者在线互动。通过利用患者在科学和环境方面的动机和兴趣，提出的方法旨在最大限度地保持和努力康复。分析将使用触觉操纵杆进行，该操纵杆为患者提供力反馈，同时记录上肢康复的显著康复表现指标。该系统将通过一系列实验研究在健康受试者和中风后偏瘫康复患者中进行测试，以阐明力反馈和社会互动对患者表现和满意度的综合影响。

1604355 - PorfiriRobotic devices have been playing an increasingly central role in physical rehabilitation due to their capability to support an increasing range of therapeutic treatments, minimize therapist time commitment, and record the performance of patients. To further extend rehabilitation treatments beyond clinical settings and enhance rehabilitation progress, considerable effort has been devoted toward robot-mediated telerehabilitation, which allows a physical therapist to remotely monitor and supervise several patients simultaneously. However, the cost of these devices and the repetitive nature of the prescribed exercises have significantly hampered the practicality of robot-mediated telerehabilitation. This project will open new directions for transforming robot-mediated telerehabilitation, through the integration of therapeutic treatments with low-cost haptic devices and interactive online citizen science activities. In the envisioned paradigm, participants will contribute to citizen science by performing activities that are part of their therapeutic regiment, and consequently increase the time spent on otherwise-boring rehabilitation activities. This integration is expected to not only contribute to scientific research but also increase patient self-esteem. This research program seeks to advance upper limb robot-mediated telerehabilitation for patients recovering from stroke by empowering them through active science participation. The envisioned system comprises a low-cost haptic joystick interfaced to a PC, which affords online social interactions in a citizen science research project. Patients will contribute to an environmental monitoring citizen science project developed by the research team, by analyzing images acquired by an aquatic mobile robot in a polluted canal in Brooklyn, NY, while interacting with other patients online. By harnessing the motivation and interests of patients in science and the environment, the proposed approach aims to maximize retention and efforts towards rehabilitation. The analysis will be performed using a haptic joystick, which provides a force-feedback to the patient while recording salient rehabilitation performance indices for upper limb rehabilitation. The system will be tested on both healthy subjects and patients undergoing rehabilitation for post-stroke hemiparesis through a series of experimental studies that elucidates the combined effects of force feedback and social interactions on patient performance and satisfaction.