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在本研究项目中，提出并评估了使用机器狗的步行康复练习。在动物辅助治疗中使用机器人而不是动物，克服了感染、喂养和排泄、虐待动物等问题。患者使用加速力传感器、触摸屏或重心传感器来操作机器人。这些人机接口设备的使用允许使用信息通信技术轻松地实现诸如传感、记录和处理人体状况的新功能。这项提议的关键方面之一是在康复练习等辅助技术中颠倒了演员和对象的角色。患者自己操作机器人，由此产生的自我效能感应该有助于延长康复练习的时间。在疗养院进行的初步实验支持了这一预测，并表明后续项目需要进一步详细调查。

In this research project, walking rehabilitation exercise using a robotic dog is proposed and evaluated. Using a robot instead of an animal in animal assisted therapy overcomes the problems of infection, feeding and excretion, animal abuse, and the like. Patients operate the robot using an acceleration force sensor, a touch panel, or a center of gravity sensor. Use of these human interface devices allows new functions such as sensing, recording, and processing of human conditions to be easily achieved using information communications technology. One of the key aspects of this proposal is the reversal of the roles of actor and object in assistive technology such as rehabilitation exercises. Patients operate the robot by themselves and the consequent feeling of self-efficacy should help to prolong the rehabilitation exercise. Preliminary experiments conducted at a nursing home supported this prediction and show the need of successive project for further detailed investigation.