NRI: Small: Collaborative Research: Don't Read my Face: Tackling the Challenges of Facial Masking in Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation through Co-Robot Mediators

NRI：小型：合作研究：不要读我的脸：通过协作机器人调解员应对帕金森病康复中面部遮盖的挑战

• 批准号: 1316809
• 负责人: Matthias Scheutz
• 金额: $ 94.99万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1316809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRI; Small; Collaborative; Research; Don

The overarching scientific goal of this project is two-fold: (1) to develop a robotic architecture endowed with moral emotional control mechanisms, abstract moral reasoning, and a theory of mind that allow corobots to be sensitive to human affective and ethical demands, and (2) to develop a specific instance of the architecture for a co-robot mediator between people with "facial masking" due to Parkinson's disease (PD) that reduces their ability to signal emotion, pain, personality and intentions to their family caregivers, and health care providers who often misinterpret the lack of emotional expressions as disinterest and an inability to adhere to treatment regimen, resulting in stigmatization. To tackle these problems, the project brings together two roboticists with extensive prior experience in robot ethics and modeling emotions as well as implementing them in integrated autonomous robotic systems. The robotics expertise is combined with that of an expert in early PD rehabilitation and daily social life. The project will build on extensive software, hardware and data set resources, including complex robotic control architectures with ethical control mechanisms, personality and emotion models, and affect and natural language capabilities.The general expected outcome of the project is an architecture for co-robots that can be adapted to a great variety of health care scenarios in an effort to enrich and dignify already stressed and stigmatized relationships between humans. The project also includes novel educational efforts such as a course in occupational therapy robotics as well as significant K?12 outreach through the Tufts Centers for STEM Diversity and for Engineering Education and Outreach, as well as various important community and public activities such as presentations on health care robotics to focus and patient groups.

The overarching scientific goal of this project is two-fold: (1) to develop a robotic architecture endowed with moral emotional control mechanisms, abstract moral reasoning, and a theory of mind that allow corobots to be sensitive to human affective and ethical demands, and (2) to develop a specific instance of the architecture for a co-robot mediator between people with "facial masking" due to Parkinson's disease (PD) that reduces their ability to signal对家庭护理人员的情绪，痛苦，个性和意图以及医疗保健提供者，他们经常误解了缺乏情感表达的不感兴趣，并且无法遵守治疗方案，从而导致污名化。为了解决这些问题，该项目汇集了两名具有机器人伦理学和建模情绪经验的机器人主义者，并在集成的自主机器人系统中实施它们。机器人专业知识与早期PD康复和日常社交生活专家的专业知识相结合。该项目将建立在广泛的软件，硬件和数据设置资源的基础上，包括具有道德控制机制，人格和情感模型以及情感和自然语言能力的复杂机器人控制体系结构。该项目的一般预期结果是共同机器人的建筑，可以适应各种卫生保健风景，以丰富和尊重已经压力的人之间的努力和尊重人的关系。该项目还包括新颖的教育工作，例如职业治疗机器人技术的课程以及大量的K？12通过Tufts STEM多样性以及工程教育和外展的塔夫茨外展，以及各种重要的社区和公共活动，例如有关卫生保健机器人的介绍，以侧重于和患者群体。