Robotics Technology in Mental Health Care

Riek, Laurel D.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-420248-1.00008-8

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“…Unfortunately, the idea of autonomous robots engenders fear and unease for many people, likely due in part to decades of media and science fiction portrayals of robots as malevolent entities. 25,26 Older adults in particular can be slow to adopt new technologies, 27 including robots, 28 and their reticence may be related to the concern that using an assistive device signals dependency and fragility. 29 Indeed, schemas related to helplessness and disability can become embedded in the morphology, functionality, and communication style of products, and robots that communicate ageist messages are likely to be met with resistance and/or rejection.…”

Section: Acceptabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

<p>Home-Based Cognitively Assistive Robots: Maximizing Cognitive Functioning and Maintaining Independence in Older Adults Without Dementia</p>

Patten¹,

Keller²,

Maye³

et al. 2020

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Promoting health and prolonging independence in the home is a priority for older adults, caregivers, clinicians, and society at large. Rapidly developing robotics technology provides a platform for interventions, with the fields of physically and socially assistive robots expanding in recent years. However, less attention has been paid to using robots to enhance the cognitive health of older adults. The goal of this review is to synthesize the current literature on home-based cognitively assistive robots (CAR) in older adults without dementia and to provide suggestions to improve the quality of the scientific evidence in this subfield. First, we set the stage for CAR by: a) introducing the field of robotics to improve health, b) summarizing evidence emphasizing the importance of home-based interventions for older adults, c) reviewing literature on robot acceptability in older adults, d) highlighting important ethical issues in healthcare robotics, and e) reviewing current findings on socially assistive robots, with a focus on translating findings to the CAR context. With this foundation in place, we then review the literature on CAR, identifying gaps and limitations of current evidence, and proposing future directions for research. We conclude that CAR is promising and feasible and that there is a need for more methodologically rigorous evaluations of CAR to promote prolonged home-based independence in older adults.

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<p>Home-Based Cognitively Assistive Robots: Maximizing Cognitive Functioning and Maintaining Independence in Older Adults Without Dementia</p>

Patten¹,

Keller²,

Maye³

et al. 2020

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“…Truly novel digital treatments are few and far between. Examples include positive cognitive bias modification as a potential treatment for depression (Blackwell et al, 2015), virtual realitybased exposure in the treatment of anxiety disorders (Valmaggia, Latif, Kempton, & Rus-Calafell, 2016) and persecutory delusions (Freeman et al, 2016), and the use of robotic technology to improve social interaction in autism spectrum disorders and dementia (Riek, 2016). An example of an intervention that is still at the experimental stage is the use of a computer game to block the reconsolidation of intrusive traumatic memories (James et al, 2015).…”

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The Impact of Digital Technology on Psychological Treatments and Their Dissemination

Fairburn¹,

Patel²

2018

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The psychological treatment of mental health problems is beginning to undergo a sea-change driven by the widespread availability of digital technology. In this paper we provide an overview of the developments to date and those in the pipeline. We describe the various uses of digital interventions and consider their likely impact on clinical practice, clinical services and the global dissemination of psychological treatments. We note the importance of online clinics, blended treatment, digital assessment and digital training.

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“…They imagined the robot could monitor daily patterns to establish baselines and identify abnormal behavior, as well as to produce compliance reports about treatment adherence. While this may have clinical benefits, it raises privacy concerns, particularly for people whose MCI is more advanced or who may have lower levels of technological literacy, which impacts informed consent [42,66,78,91,93]. This requires thoughtful consideration and additional research to identify how to best balance these potentially conflicting constraints both with JESSIE and more broadly.…”

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Jessie

Kubota

Peterson

Rajendren

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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JESSIE is a robotic system that enables novice programmers to program social robots by expressing high-level specifications. We employ control synthesis with a tangible front-end to allow users to define complex behavior for which we automatically generate control code. We demonstrate JESSIE in the context of enabling clinicians to create personalized treatments for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on a Kuri robot, in little time and without error. We evaluated JESSIE with neuropsychologists who reported high usability and learnability. They gave suggestions for improvement, including increased support for personalization, multi-party programming, collaborative goal setting, and re-tasking robot role post-deployment, which each raise technical and sociotechnical issues in HRI. We exhibit JESSIE's reproducibility by replicating a clinician-created program on a TurtleBot 2. As an open-source means of accessing control synthesis, JESSIE supports reproducibility, scalability, and accessibility of personalized robots for HRI. CCS CONCEPTS • Computer systems organization → Robotic control; • Applied computing → Health informatics.

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Robotics Technology in Mental Health Care

Cited by 56 publications

References 58 publications

<p>Home-Based Cognitively Assistive Robots: Maximizing Cognitive Functioning and Maintaining Independence in Older Adults Without Dementia</p>

<p>Home-Based Cognitively Assistive Robots: Maximizing Cognitive Functioning and Maintaining Independence in Older Adults Without Dementia</p>

The Impact of Digital Technology on Psychological Treatments and Their Dissemination

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