Development of Serious Games and Physical Activities Instructed by a Social Robot for Improving the Well-being of Elderly Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

开发由社交机器人指导的严肃游戏和体育活动，以改善患有阿尔茨海默病和痴呆症的老年人的福祉

• 批准号: 9910078
• 负责人: Mohammad Mahoor
• 金额: $ 46.35万
• 依托单位: DREAM FACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-30 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9910078
• 关键词: Address; Affective; Age; Algorithms; Alzheimer' s Disease; Alzheimer' s disease related dementia; American; Artificial Intelligence; Attention; Behavioral Symptoms; Caregivers; Caring; Clinical; Cognition; Cognitive; Communication; Computer Vision Systems; Computers; Control Groups; Cost of Illness; Dementia; Detection; Development; Devices; Diagnosis; Disease Management; Effectiveness; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Face; Facial Expression Recognition; Family Caregiver; Family member; Feedback; Financial Hardship; Frequencies; Frustration; Geriatric Psychiatry; Goals; Health Personnel; Health care facility; Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Hobbies; Hour; Human; Human body; Impaired cognition; Individual; Institutes; Instruction; Intelligence; Internet of Things; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Life; Long-Term Care for Elderly; Machine Learning; Measures; Memory; Memory Loss; Mental Depression; Methods; Monitor; Moods; Motor Skills; Natural Language Processing; Participant; Patients; Periodicity; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Phase; Physical activity; Pilot Projects; Play; Population; Psyche structure; Psychological reinforcement; Quality of life; Randomized; Research; Research Personnel; Robot; Robotics; Savings; Scientist; Short-Term Memory; Sleep disturbances; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Well-Being; Surveys; Symptoms; Taxes; Technology; Testing; Time; Voice; Well in self; active control; base; cognitive ability; cognitive rehabilitation; common symptom; community living; cost; design; exergame; experience; healthy aging; improved; innovative technologies; insight; interest; multidisciplinary; next generation; novel; prototype; repetitive behavior; skeletal movement; skills; social; social assistive robot; success; tool

The objective of the proposed direct Phase-II SBIR project is to develop and study and the effectiveness of Serious Games and physical Activities played/performed by elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease and AD- related Dementias in interaction with Ryan, our successfully piloted Socially Assistive Robot (SAR). Ryan is an intelligent conversational life-like social robot, designed to improve the well-being and quality of life of older adults with AD/ADRD. Ryan uses state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technology for automated facial expression recognition, natural language processing, and tracking of human body that are used in personalization and adaptation of the games and physical activities. According to the Alzheimer’s Association an estimated 5.7 million Americans have AD and is projected to rise to 13.8 million, as the population ages. Common symptoms of AD/ADRD include cognitive decline, short-term memory loss, changes in mood, depression, communication difficulties, lost interest in hobbies or activities, and repetitive behavior. Americans suffering from AD/ADRD are believed to cost the nation $236 billion annually with projected annual costs of over $1 trillion by 2050. Traditional methods for disease management have shown limited success treating AD/ADRD or mitigating its symptoms. Health care personnel and caregivers who are physically and emotionally taxed are seeking new ways to provide care for elderly individuals and particularly those suffering from AD/ADRD. Innovative technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, have begun to alleviate the growing need for novel solutions to the healthcare. Among such technologies, socially assistive robots such as Ryan have received a great amount of attention in recent years. While SAR research prototypes exist that can interact with users playing physical cognitive games equipped with artificial intelligence technology and personalization, to our knowledge, no such cooperative SAR (prototype or commercial) for electronic gameplay with individuals suffering from dementia exists today. Our game designs will target “Cognition”, “Memory”, “Spatial Relation”, “Social Relationship”, and “Motor Skills” abilities of players. We will conduct a pilot study to measure Ryan’s effectiveness in mental and socio- emotional stimulation of users with mild dementia. This innovative technology stands to produce significant financial savings and improve the quality of life of individuals living with AD/ADRD, their families, and caregivers.

拟议的直接II SBIR项目的目的是开发和研究 老年人患有阿尔茨海默氏病和ad的人进行/表演的严重游戏和体育活动 与瑞安（Ryan）互动的相关痴呆症，我们成功试行的社会辅助机器人（SAR）。瑞安是一个 智能对话式的生活型社交机器人，旨在改善老年人的福祉和生活质量 成人广告/ADRD。瑞安（Ryan）使用最先进的人工智能技术来自动面部 表达识别，自然语言处理以及对人体的跟踪 游戏和体育活动的个性化和适应。根据阿尔茨海默氏症协会 人口年龄，估计有570万美国人的广告已有广告，预计将增加到1380万。 AD/ADRD的常见符号包括认知能力下降，短期记忆丧失，情绪变化， 抑郁，沟通困难，对爱好或活动的兴趣以及重复行为。美国人 据信，遭受广告/ADRD的痛苦每年损失2360亿美元，预计年费用为 到2050年，超过1万亿美元。传统的疾病管理方法表明成功治疗有限 AD/ADRD或缓解其症状。身体和护理人员的身体和照顾者 有情感征税正在寻求新的方法来为老年人，尤其是苦难的人提供护理 来自广告/adrd。创新技术，例如人工智能，机器人技术和物联网（IoT） 设备已开始减轻对医疗保健新颖解决方案的日益增长的需求。其中 近年来，瑞安（Ryan）等技术辅助机器人（例如瑞安）受到了广泛关注。 虽然存在SAR研究原型，但可以与玩物理认知游戏的用户互动 据我们所知，有了人工智能技术和个性化，没有这样的教练 （原型或商业）用于电子游戏玩法，目前存在患有痴呆症的人。我们的 游戏设计将针对“认知”，“记忆”，“空间关系”，“社会关系”和“运动技能” 球员的能力。我们将进行一项试点研究，以衡量瑞安在心理和社会上的有效性 轻度痴呆用户的情绪刺激。这项创新的技术将产生重要的 经济储蓄并改善了与广告/阿德德（Adrd），家人以及 照顾者。