Human-like Robot MARKO in the Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Borovać, Branislav; Gnjatović, Milan; Savić, S.; Raković, Mirko; Nikolić, Milutin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23832-6_16

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“…This finding is consistent with the results from previous studies [2,75,76] that robots have been widely used to treat children with ASD by promoting their social behaviors and improving their communication skills. Our results also revealed that CIs were adopted to manage chronic diseases, such as stroke [46], cancer [47], and dementia [77]. These health issues usually require long-term treatment and intensive care.…”

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confidence: 75%

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Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents

Xing¹,

Yu²,

Du³

et al. 2019

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundConversational interfaces (CIs) in different modalities have been developed for health purposes, such as health behavioral intervention, patient self-management, and clinical decision support. Despite growing research evidence supporting CIs’ potential, CI-related research is still in its infancy. There is a lack of systematic investigation that goes beyond publication review and presents the state of the art from perspectives of funding agencies, academia, and industry by incorporating CI-related public funding and patent activities.ObjectiveThis study aimed to use data systematically extracted from multiple sources (ie, grant, publication, and patent databases) to investigate the development, research, and fund application of health-related CIs and associated stakeholders (ie, countries, organizations, and collaborators).MethodsA multifaceted search query was executed to retrieve records from 9 databases. Bibliometric analysis, social network analysis, and term co-occurrence analysis were conducted on the screened records.ResultsThis review included 42 funded projects, 428 research publications, and 162 patents. The total dollar amount of grants awarded was US $30,297,932, of which US $13,513,473 was awarded by US funding agencies and US $16,784,459 was funded by the Europe Commission. The top 3 funding agencies in the United States were the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Boston Medical Center was awarded the largest combined grant size (US $2,246,437) for 4 projects. The authors of the publications were from 58 countries and 566 organizations; the top 3 most productive organizations were Northeastern University (United States), Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia), and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS; France). US researchers produced 114 publications. Although 82.0% (464/566) of the organizations engaged in interorganizational collaboration, 2 organizational research-collaboration clusters were observed with Northeastern University and CNRS as the central nodes. About 112 organizations from the United States and China filed 87.7% patents. IBM filed most patents (N=17). Only 5 patents were co-owned by different organizations, and there was no across-country collaboration on patenting activity. The terms patient, child, elderly, and robot were frequently discussed in the 3 record types. The terms related to mental and chronic issues were discussed mainly in grants and publications. The terms regarding multimodal interactions were widely mentioned as users’ communication modes with CIs in the identified records.ConclusionsOur findings provided an overview of the countries, organizations, and topic terms in funded projects, as well as the authorship, collaboration, content, and related information of research publications and patents. There is a lack of broad cross-sector partnerships among grant agencies, academia, and industry, particularly in the United States. Our results suggest a need to improve col...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…In addition, asd appeared together with child in 46 publications [42,43]. Other disease-related terms discussed in the publications included aphasia (3.7%, 16/428) [44,45], cerebral palsy (2.8%, 12/428) [46,47], stroke (2.6%, 11/428) [48,49], cancer (1.4%, 6/428) [50,51]. The key term elderly was addressed in 42 publications [52,53].…”

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confidence: 99%

Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents

Xing¹,

Yu²,

Du³

et al. 2019

J Med Internet Res

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“…Exercise demonstration and robot mirroring is also proposed by Fridin et al [9] to assist groups of paediatric patients and Malik et al [20], who implement three different exercise demonstrations (Sit to Stand, Balancing, and Ball kicking). "MARKO" [2], a robot sitting on a horse-like mobile platform, is designed to assist rehabilitation for patients with CP in gross motor skill exercises, fine motor skills, and speech exercises.…”

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“…This requires development beyond proof-of-concept, with clear clinical-use cases identified. While previous work has explored specific roles and functionalities to support paediatric rehabilitation (e.g., [2,4,20,37]) few have considered the design of such capabilities in the context of ongoing clinical deployment. Addressing this gap is critical to understanding the clinical context that SARs must operate in and for establishing the long-term legitimacy of SARs as effective and usable therapeutic aids with therapists and caregivers.We are developing software to adapt the humanoid robot NAO as a therapeutic aid for paediatric rehabilitation and evaluating its effectiveness.…”

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Adapting a General-Purpose Social Robot for Paediatric Rehabilitation through In Situ Design

Carrillo

Butchart

Knight

et al. 2018

J. Hum.-Robot Interact.

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Socially assistive robots (SARs) offer great promise for improving outcomes in paediatric rehabilitation. However, the design of software and interactive capabilities for SARs must be carefully considered in the context of their intended clinical use. While previous work has explored specific roles and functionalities to support paediatric rehabilitation, few have considered the design of such capabilities in the context of ongoing clinical deployment. In this article, we present a two-phase in situ design process for SARs in health care, emphasising stakeholder engagement and on-site development. We explore this in the context of developing the humanoid social robot NAO as a socially assistive rehabilitation aid for children with cerebral palsy. We present and evaluate our design process, outcomes achieved, and preliminary results from ongoing clinical testing with 9 patients and 5 therapists over 14 sessions. We argue that our in situ design methodology has been central to the rapid and successful deployment of our system. Rehabilitation outcomes rely critically on patients adhering to a prescribed set of rehabilitation exercises [38]. When those patients are children, maintaining compliance and focus while performing what can often be tiring, uncomfortable, and repetitive exercise programs presents a significant challenge [30,34]. While therapists and caregivers are well equipped with skills and experience to maintain a child's motivation, this takes considerable time and resources [24]. Therapists are not always able to attend each prescribed exercise session and, even when present, results are not always positive.Socially assistive robots (SARs) are increasingly being considered to support a range of health care delivery needs. SARs provide assistance primarily through social interaction and engagement [8], that is, children suffering form serious illness [1]. SARs have shown promising results for improving mood, reducing stress, and encouraging communication for children on the autism spectrum [35], in rehabilitation [4,37], for encouraging exercise in older adults [7], and in poststroke rehabilitation [44].Paediatric rehabilitation presents an ideal context for the application of SARs. Previous work suggests that SARs may provide therapeutic benefits for patients through increased focus and compliance [9,17]. However, no formal clinical evaluation of the therapeutic benefits of SARs for rehabilitation currently exists. This requires development beyond proof-of-concept, with clear clinical-use cases identified. While previous work has explored specific roles and functionalities to support paediatric rehabilitation (e.g., [2,4,20,37]) few have considered the design of such capabilities in the context of ongoing clinical deployment. Addressing this gap is critical to understanding the clinical context that SARs must operate in and for establishing the long-term legitimacy of SARs as effective and usable therapeutic aids with therapists and caregivers.We are developing software to adapt the humanoid robot NAO ...

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“…Using robotic coaches to train motor skills is becoming increasingly important for older people and children [3], [4]. For children, social robots are being used within interactive games, aimed at improving social skills, as in the case of autism spectrum disorder(ASD) [5].…”

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Design of a Robotic Coach for Motor, Social and Cognitive Skills Training Toward Applications With ASD Children

Santos

Geminiani

Schydlo

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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Socially assistive robots may help the treatment of autism spectrum disorder(ASD), through games using dyadic interactions to train social skills. Existing systems are mainly based on simplified protocols which qualitatively evaluate subject performance.We propose a robotic coaching platform for training social, motor and cognitive capabilities, with two main contributions: (i) using triadic interactions(adult, robot and child), with robotic mirroring, and (ii) providing quantitative performance indicators. The key system features were accurately designed, including type of protocols, feedback systems and evaluation metrics, contemplating the requirements for applications with ASD children.We implemented two protocols, Robot-Master and Adult-Master, where children performed different gestures guided by the robot or the adult respectively, eventually receiving feedback about movement execution. In both, the robot mirrors the subject during the movement. To assess system functionalities, with a homogeneous group of subjects, tests were carried out with 28 healthy subjects; one preliminary acquisition was done with an ASD child. Data analysis was customized to design protocolspecific parameters for movement characterization.Our tests show that robotic mirroring execution depends on the complexity and standardization of movements, as well as on the robot technical features. The feedback system evaluated movement phases and successfully estimated the completion of the exercises. Future work includes improving platform flexibility and adaptability, and clinical trials with ASD children to test the impact of the robotic coach on reducing symptoms. We trust that the proposed quantitative performance indicators extend the current state-of-the-art towards clinical usage of robotic-based coaching systems.

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Human-like Robot MARKO in the Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents

Conversational Interfaces for Health: Bibliometric Analysis of Grants, Publications, and Patents

Adapting a General-Purpose Social Robot for Paediatric Rehabilitation through In Situ Design

Design of a Robotic Coach for Motor, Social and Cognitive Skills Training Toward Applications With ASD Children

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