Socially Assistive Robots and Sensory Feedback for MCI/Dementia Rehabilitation

我的研究目标是增加轻度认知障碍（MCI）和痴呆症患者对认知康复任务的参与，以最大限度地发挥治疗的潜在影响，并打击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适应社交辅助机器人行为、认知任务和基于生理传感器评估的参与水平的感官反馈。研究项目：为了启动这项研究，我们开发了一个社会辅助机器人（SAR）促进记忆游戏，该游戏使用胡椒机器人上的触觉传感器以及听觉和触觉反馈。该系统的目的是为轻度认知障碍和痴呆患者的认知康复系统的设计提供信息。该可行性研究已作为最新报告发表在2020年ACM/IEEE人机交互国际会议上。我目前正在对卫生专业人员进行虚拟采访，以获得见解和反馈，这将有助于形成拟议系统的设计。

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.