Study of Scenarios and Technical Requirements of a Social Assistive Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Their Caregivers

Salichs, Miguel Á.; Encinar, Irene P.; Salichs, Esther; Castro‐González, Álvaro; Malfáz, María

doi:10.1007/s12369-015-0319-6

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“…Originally, this robot was designed to interact with elder people with mild cognitive impairment [18]. Nevertheless, the capabilities of this platform allows other users and applications such as our current goal.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, therapy specialists are furnished with a tool able to run games by using the sensors integrated in the platform. The robot Mini is another proposal for therapy with elders in early stages of Alzheimer's or dementia [17, 18]. Mini is a plush-like desktop robot that offers functionalities related to safety, personal assistance, entertainment, and stimulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech

Castillo

Álvarez-Fernández

Alonso-Martín

et al. 2018

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder in which messages from the brain to the mouth are disrupted, resulting in an inability for moving lips or tongue to the right place to pronounce sounds correctly. Current therapies for this condition involve a therapist that in one-on-one sessions conducts the exercises. Our aim is to work in the line of robotic therapies in which a robot is able to perform partially or autonomously a therapy session, endowing a social robot with the ability of assisting therapists in apraxia of speech rehabilitation exercises. Therefore, we integrate computer vision and machine learning techniques to detect the mouth pose of the user and, on top of that, our social robot performs autonomously the different steps of the therapy using multimodal interaction.

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Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech

Castillo

Álvarez-Fernández

Alonso-Martín

et al. 2018

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) provide a viable solution. Several papers examined different scenarios and the use of SAR [3], [4] as well as their application for cognitive training [5]. Moreover, research has shown that SAR yields better results than other technologies, like tablets [6].…”

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Adaptive Modality Selection Algorithm in Robot-Assisted Cognitive Training

Jevtić

Torras

2018

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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Interaction of socially assistive robots with users is based on social cues coming from different interaction modalities, such as speech or gestures. However, using all modalities at all times may be inefficient as it can overload the user with redundant information and increase the task completion time. Additionally, users may favor certain modalities over the other as a result of their disability or personal preference. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Modality Selection (AMS) algorithm that chooses modalities depending on the state of the user and the environment, as well as user preferences. The variables that describe the environment and the user state are defined as resources, and we posit that modalities are successful if certain resources possess specific values during their use. Besides the resources, the proposed algorithm takes into account user preferences which it learns while interacting with users. We tested our algorithm in simulations, and we implemented it on a robotic system that provides cognitive training, specifically Sequential memory exercises. Experimental results show that it is possible to use only a subset of available modalities without compromising the interaction. Moreover, we see a trend for users to perform better when interacting with a system with implemented AMS algorithm.

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“…Most technological medical interventions have been assistive in nature 6,7 ; supporting physicians in taking quick, evidence-based decisions. Designs of such systems have employed conversational agent approaches and have been based mostly on information available on the web.…”

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Robots to the Rescue: A Review of Studies on Differential Medical Diagnosis Employing Ontology-Based Chat Bot Technology

Edwards¹,

Muniru²,

Cheok³

2016

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Access to medical care is a global issue. Technology-aided approaches have been applied in addressing this. Interventions have however not focused on medical diagnosis as a fully automated procedure and available applications employ mainly text-based inputs rather than conversation in natural language. We explored the utility of ontology-based chatbot technology for the design of intelligent agents for medical diagnosis through a systematic review of the most recent related literature. English articles published in 2011-2016 returned 233 hits which yielded 11 relevant articles after a 3-stage screening. Findings showed that the creation of expert systems had been the focus of many the studies which utilize the physician-system-patient framework with system training based mostly on expert knowledge for designing web-or mobile phone-based applications that serve assistive purposes. Findings further indicated gaps in the design and evaluation of more effective systems deployable as standalone applications, for example, on an embodied robotic system. The need for technology supporting the physical examination part of diagnosis, connection to data sources on patients' vitals and medical history are also indicated in addition to the need for more qualitative work on natural language-based interaction. The system should be one that is continuously learning. Future works should also be directed towards the building of more robust knowledge base as well as evaluation of theory-based diagnostic methodological options

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Study of Scenarios and Technical Requirements of a Social Assistive Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Their Caregivers

Cited by 63 publications

References 17 publications

Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech

Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech

Adaptive Modality Selection Algorithm in Robot-Assisted Cognitive Training

Robots to the Rescue: A Review of Studies on Differential Medical Diagnosis Employing Ontology-Based Chat Bot Technology

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