Socially Assistive Robots and Sensory Feedback for MCI/Dementia Rehabilitation

用于 MCI/痴呆症康复的社交辅助机器人和感官反馈

• 批准号: 2270294
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2270294
• 关键词: Socially; Assistive; Robots; Sensory; Feedback

My research goal is to increase engagement with cognitive rehabilitation tasks for individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia in order to maximise the therapy's potential impact and combat personal and logistic factors that can impact treatment adherence. To achieve this objective, the proposed robotic system will adapt the socially assistive robot behaviour, cognitive task, and sensory feedback based on engagement level assessed from physiological sensors.Research project: To initiate this research, we developed a socially assistive robot (SAR)-facilitated memory game that uses the tactile sensors on the Pepper robot along with employing auditory and haptic feedback. The goal of this system was to inform the design of a cognitive rehabilitation system for individuals with mild cognitive impairment and dementia. The feasibility study has been published in the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction as a late-breaking report. I am currently in the process of virtually interviewing health professionals to attain insight and feedback that will help shape the design of the proposed system.

我的研究目标是提高轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 和痴呆症患者对认知康复任务的参与度，以最大限度地发挥治疗的潜在影响，并克服可能影响治疗依从性的个人和后勤因素。为了实现这一目标，所提出的机器人系统将根据生理传感器评估的参与水平来调整社交辅助机器人行为、认知任务和感官反馈。研究项目：为了启动这项研究，我们开发了一种社交辅助机器人（SAR）促进的记忆游戏，该游戏使用 Pepper 机器人上的触觉传感器并采用听觉和触觉反馈。该系统的目标是为患有轻度认知障碍和痴呆症的个体设计认知康复系统。该可行性研究已作为最新报告发布在2020年ACM/IEEE人机交互国际会议上。我目前正在虚拟采访卫生专业人员，以获得见解和反馈，这将有助于塑造拟议系统的设计。