Socially Assistive Robotic Architecture for Elder Care

用于老年人护理的社交辅助机器人架构

• 批准号: 9325396
• 负责人: LORRAINE C MION
• 金额: $ 19.63万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9325396
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Aging; Architecture; Area; Assisted Living Facilities; Attention; Autistic Disorder; Back; Behavior; Body Weight decreased; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Clinical Trials; Cognition; Cognitive; Communities; Computers; Cues; Data Collection; Dementia; Detection; Development; Discipline of Nursing; Effectiveness; Elderly; Electroencephalogram; Enhancement Technology; Enrollment; Environment; Expert Systems; Feasibility Studies; Fostering; Frustration; Future; Gestures; Goals; Healthcare; Human; Impaired cognition; Independent Living; Individual; Intervention; Joints; Laboratories; Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care for Elderly; Measurable; Mediating; Medical; Methodology; Methods; Monitor; Motivation; Movement; Nurses; Nursing Homes; Nursing Process; Outcome; Participant; Persons; Physical Function; Pilot Projects; Procedures; Quality of life; Reaction; Recruitment Activity; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Resources; Risk; Robot; Robotics; Series; Social Conditions; Social Impacts; Social Interaction; Social isolation; Socialization; Surveys; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Validation; Videotape; Work; aging population; autism spectrum disorder; base; cognitive function; community setting; dementia care; design; experimental study; field study; functional disability; gaze; improved; innovation; laboratory experiment; mild cognitive impairment; mortality; novel; preference; psychosocial; response; satisfaction; sensor; social; social engagement; stroke rehabilitation; success; system architecture; telehealth systems; tool; virtual reality

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The aging population with its concomitant medical conditions, physical and cognitive impairments, at a time of strained health care resources, establishes the urgent need to design and implement technologies that enhance or maintain physical and cognitive function and improve quality of life among older adults. Robotic technologies in the form of socially assistive robots (SAR), with capabilities for autonomously detecting and meaningfully responding to older adults' engagement and behavior, have the potential for addressing physical, cognitive, and/or social conditions. The field of SAR is still in early development. We propose to introduce SAR for not only one person - one robot interaction, but also to utilize the robot to foster interactions between two people. The specific aims of this two-year pilot study are: 1) design and validation of an autonomous robotic architecture for older adults with and without cognitive impairment or apathy and 2) assess the feasibility, acceptability and tolerance of the robot-mediated intervention. To accomplish Aim 1, we will refine our current robotic architecture ARIA (Adaptive Robot-Mediated Intervention Architecture) to create several new engaging cognitive, physical and social tasks suitable for older adults and extend the ARIA's capability to include more than one person in the robot-mediated activities to foster human-to-human interaction. We will conduct laboratory experiments involving 30 older adults (10 without cognitive impairment, 10 with mild cognitive impairment, and 10 with mild to moderate dementia) in which we will test the individual capabilities as well as integrated functioning of the robotic system. In Aim 2, we will conduct two pilot feasibility studies at an independent living, assisted living and dementia care senior center. In Pilot Study 1, we will enroll 12 adults, 4 with no cognitive impairment, 4 with mild cognitive impairment, and 4 with mild to moderate dementia, to participate three times weekly for 4 weeks in a series of physical, cognitive and social activities. Pilot Study 2 will include 6 pairs of older adults (2 with no cognitive impairment, 2 pairs with MCI, and 2 pairs with dementia) to attend three sessions a week for 4 weeks. This will allow us to expand the robotic capabilities to monitor more than one person and to encourage social engagement between the older adults. All study procedures will remain the same as in Pilot Study 1. Aims 1 and 2 experiments will be videotaped. Older adults' reactions to the robotic interactions will be gathered by survey, and observation using observer-rated tools. In addition to informing future clinical trials of SAR effectiveness, the information from the proposed study will contribute to the long-term goals supporting the development of robotic strategies to enhance physical function, cognition and socialization of older adults in the community setting.

项目摘要/摘要 老龄化人口及其伴随的医疗条件、身体和认知障碍，在一个 紧张的医疗资源，迫切需要设计和实施技术来增强 或者保持身体和认知功能，提高老年人的生活质量。机器人技术 以社交辅助机器人(SAR)的形式，具有自主检测和有意义的 对老年人的参与和行为做出反应，有可能解决身体上、认知上、 和/或社会条件。搜救领域还处于早期发展阶段。我们建议引入特别行政区，不单是因为 一个人对一个机器人的互动，也是为了利用机器人促进两个人之间的互动。这个 这项为期两年的试点研究的具体目标是：1)设计和验证用于 有或没有认知障碍或冷漠的老年人和2)评估可行性、可接受性和 对机器人介入的容忍。为了实现目标1，我们将改进我们当前的机器人体系结构 ARIA(自适应机器人中介干预体系结构)创建了几个新的引人入胜的认知、身体 和适合老年人的社交活动，并将ARIA的能力扩展到包括一个以上的人 以机器人为中介的活动，促进人与人之间的互动。我们将进行实验室实验 涉及30名老年人(10名没有认知障碍，10名有轻度认知障碍，10名有轻度认知障碍 到中度痴呆症)，我们将测试个体能力以及 机器人系统。在目标2中，我们将进行两项试点可行性研究，分别是独立生活、辅助生活和 痴呆症护理老年中心。在先导研究1中，我们将招募12名成年人，4名无认知障碍，4名轻度 认知障碍，以及4名轻度至中度痴呆症患者，每周参加三次，为期4周 一系列的身体、认知和社会活动。试点研究2将包括6对老年人(2对没有 认知障碍，2对患有MCI，2对患有痴呆症)，每周参加三次会议，为期4周。 这将使我们能够扩展机器人的能力，以监控不止一个人，并鼓励 老年人之间的订婚。所有研究程序将保持与试点研究相同1.目标1 两个实验将被录制下来。老年人对机器人互动的反应将通过以下方式收集 使用观察员评级的工具进行调查和观察。除了为未来的SAR临床试验提供信息外 为了提高有效性，拟议研究中的信息将有助于支持 开发机器人策略以增强老年人的身体功能、认知和社交能力 社区环境。