VGo-Assist, A Mobile Telepresence Robot to Engage Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

项目摘要/摘要 辅助技术(AT)是一个广泛的活动领域，旨在支持身体健康、福祉、社交 有亲和力，有能力在家中独立生活。辅助机器人(AR)在很大程度上是指 通过物理交互帮助人类的机器人，而社交交互机器人(SIR)描述了 主要通过社交互动进行交互的机器。社会辅助机器人(SAR)已经成为 被描述为辅助机器人(AR)和社交交互机器人(SIR)的交叉点。这样做的目的是 第二阶段项目是通过在社交机器人(VGo)上增加辅助工具来开发VGo辅助机器人 技术(AT)作为可扩展智能家居/辅助环境(AE)解决方案的一部分，适用于 阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆(ADRD)。从第一阶段工作开始，进行了一项调查研究 它招募了三组人：患有ADRD的个人，家庭照顾者和临床工作人员 与ADRD患者一起工作。所有的小组都同意VGo的帮助可能会允许个人 随着ADRD在家中生活的时间更长或被单独留在家里很长一段时间， 表现出最高热情的群体是家庭照顾者。这群人的热情是 特别高，因为他们还背负着阿尔茨海默病的沉重负担。最近出版的一本书 阿尔茨海默氏症协会的一份报告显示，与没有照顾者的人相比， 痴呆症，痴呆症患者照顾者的两倍显示出大量的经济，情感和 身体上的困难，59%的ADRD患者的家庭照顾者对照顾的情绪压力进行了评级 一样高或者非常高。对于第二阶段，核心用例来自第一阶段调查研究的结果， 我们发现，这也与其他类似调查研究的文献回顾的结果非常一致。 第二阶段的具体目标是开发VGo Assistate的功能，该功能将解决以下用例 都被确认了。

Project Summary/Abstract Assistive Technologies (AT) is a broad area of activities to support physical health, well-being, social connectedness, and ability to live independently at home. Assistive Robotics (AR) has largely referred to robots that assisted people through physical interaction, while Socially Interactive Robotics (SIR) describe machines that interact primarily through social interaction. Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) has been described as the intersection of Assistive Robotics (AR) and Socially Interactive Robotics (SIR). The goal of this Phase II project is to develop the VGo Assist robot by augmenting a social robot (VGo) with assistive technologies (AT) as part of an expandable smart home/assistive environment (AE) solution for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD). From the Phase I work, a survey study was conducted which recruited three groups of people: individuals with ADRD, family caregivers, and clinical staff who worked with ADRD patients. All of the groups agreed that VGo Assist would potentially allow an individual with ADRD to remain living along at home longer or to be left home alone for long stretches of time, and the group that showed the highest level of enthusiasm was family caregivers. Enthusiasm among this group was particularly high because they also bear a significant burden from Alzheimer’s disease. A recently published report by the Alzheimer’s Association revealed that when compared with caregivers of people without dementia, twice as many caregivers of those with dementia indicate substantial financial, emotional and physical difficulties, and 59% of family caregivers of people with ADRD rated the emotional stress of caregiving as high or very high. For Phase II, core use cases were derived from the results of the Phase I survey study, which we found to also be very consistent with findings from literature review of other similar survey studies. The specific aims for Phase II are to develop capabilities for VGo Assist which will address the use cases that were identified.