Socially Assistive Robotic Architecture for Elder Care

用于老年人护理的社交辅助机器人架构

• 批准号: 9147748
• 负责人: LORRAINE C MION
• 金额: $ 23.55万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9147748
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Aging; Architecture; Area; Assisted Living Facilities; Attention; Autistic Disorder; Back; Behavior; Body Weight decreased; Caregivers; Caring; Child; Clinical Trials; Cognition; Cognitive; Communities; Computers; Cues; Data Collection; Dementia; Detection; Development; Discipline of Nursing; Effectiveness; Elderly; Electroencephalogram; Enrollment; Environment; Expert Systems; Feasibility Studies; Fostering; Future; Gestures; Goals; Healthcare; Human; Impaired cognition; Independent Living; Individual; Intervention; Joints; Laboratories; Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care for Elderly; Measurable; Mediating; Medical; Methodology; Methods; Monitor; Motivation; Movement; Nursing Homes; Nursing Process; Participant; Persons; Physical Function; Pilot Projects; Procedures; Quality of life; Reaction; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Resources; Risk; Robot; Robotics; Series; Social Conditions; Social Impacts; Social Interaction; Social isolation; Socialization; Surveys; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Validation; Videotape; Work; aging population; autism spectrum disorder; base; cognitive function; community setting; dementia care; design; field study; functional disability; gaze; improved; innovation; laboratory experiment; mild cognitive impairment; mortality; novel; physical conditioning; preference; psychosocial; research study; response; satisfaction; sensor; social; stroke rehabilitation; success; system architecture; telehealth; tool; virtual reality

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The aging population with its concomitant medical conditions, physical and cognitive impairments, at a time of strained health care resources, establishes the urgent need to design and implement technologies that enhance or maintain physical and cognitive function and improve quality of life among older adults. Robotic technologies in the form of socially assistive robots (SAR), with capabilities for autonomously detecting and meaningfully responding to older adults' engagement and behavior, have the potential for addressing physical, cognitive, and/or social conditions. The field of SAR is still in early development. We propose to introduce SAR for not only one person - one robot interaction, but also to utilize the robot to foster interactions between two people. The specific aims of this two-year pilot study are: 1) design and validation of an autonomous robotic architecture for older adults with and without cognitive impairment or apathy and 2) assess the feasibility, acceptability and tolerance of the robot-mediated intervention. To accomplish Aim 1, we will refine our current robotic architecture ARIA (Adaptive Robot-Mediated Intervention Architecture) to create several new engaging cognitive, physical and social tasks suitable for older adults and extend the ARIA's capability to include more than one person in the robot-mediated activities to foster human-to-human interaction. We will conduct laboratory experiments involving 30 older adults (10 without cognitive impairment, 10 with mild cognitive impairment, and 10 with mild to moderate dementia) in which we will test the individual capabilities as well as integrated functioning of the robotic system. In Aim 2, we will conduct two pilot feasibility studies at an independent living, assisted living and dementia care senior center. In Pilot Study 1, we will enroll 12 adults, 4 with no cognitive impairment, 4 with mild cognitive impairment, and 4 with mild to moderate dementia, to participate three times weekly for 4 weeks in a series of physical, cognitive and social activities. Pilot Study 2 will include 6 pairs of older adults (2 with no cognitive impairment, 2 pairs with MCI, and 2 pairs with dementia) to attend three sessions a week for 4 weeks. This will allow us to expand the robotic capabilities to monitor more than one person and to encourage social engagement between the older adults. All study procedures will remain the same as in Pilot Study 1. Aims 1 and 2 experiments will be videotaped. Older adults' reactions to the robotic interactions will be gathered by survey, and observation using observer-rated tools. In addition to informing future clinical trials of SAR effectiveness, the information from the proposed study will contribute to the long-term goals supporting the development of robotic strategies to enhance physical function, cognition and socialization of older adults in the community setting.

项目摘要 /摘要 伴随医疗状况，身体和认知障碍的老龄化人口 紧张的医疗保健资源，建立了设计和实施增强技术的迫切需求 或保持身体和认知功能并改善老年人的生活质量。机器人技术 以社会辅助机器人（SAR）的形式，具有自主检测和有意义的能力 应对老年人的参与和行为，有潜力解决身体，认知， 和/或社会条件。 SAR领域仍处于早期发展。我们建议不仅介绍SAR 一个人 - 一个机器人互动，同时也利用机器人来培养两个人之间的互动。这 这项为期两年的试点研究的具体目的是：1）设计和验证自主机器人架构的 患有和没有认知障碍或冷漠的老年人，2）评估可行性，可接受性和 机器人介导的干预措施的耐受性。为了完成目标1，我们将完善当前的机器人体系结构 ARIA（自适应机器人介导的干预体系结构），以创建几种新的引人入胜的认知，物理 和适合老年人的社会任务，并扩展了ARIA的能力，以包括一个以上的人 机器人介导的活动以促进人类到人类的相互作用。我们将进行实验室实验 涉及30名老年人（10名没有认知障碍，10个患有轻度认知障碍的老年人，10个轻度 中度痴呆症）我们将测试单个能力以及集成功能 机器人系统。在AIM 2中，我们将在独立生活，辅助生活和 痴呆症护理高级中心。在试点研究1中，我们将招募12名成年人，4名没有认知障碍，4个温和 认知障碍，4例轻度至中度痴呆症，每周3次参加4周 一系列的身体，认知和社会活动。试点研究2将包括6对老年人（2对 认知障碍，与MCI有2对，以及与痴呆症的2对），每周参加3次课程，持续4周。 这将使我们能够扩展机器人能力以监视多个人并鼓励社会 老年人之间的订婚。所有研究程序都将与试点研究1相同。目标1 和2个实验将进行录像。老年人对机器人互动的反应将由 调查和使用观察者评级工具观察。除了告知未来的SAR临床试验 有效性，拟议研究的信息将有助于支持该的长期目标 制定机器人策略以增强老年人的身体机能，认知和社会化的发展 社区环境。