Development of Serious Games and Physical Activities Instructed by a Social Robot for Improving the Well-being of Elderly Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

开发由社交机器人指导的严肃游戏和体育活动，以改善患有阿尔茨海默病和痴呆症的老年人的福祉

• 批准号: 10020305
• 负责人: Eshrat S Emamian
• 金额: $ 53.65万
• 依托单位: DREAM FACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-30 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10020305
• 关键词: Address; Affective; Age; Algorithms; Alzheimer' s Disease; Alzheimer' s disease related dementia; American; Artificial Intelligence; Attention; Behavioral Symptoms; Caregivers; Caring; Clinical; Cognition; Cognitive; Communication; Computer Vision Systems; Computers; Control Groups; Cost of Illness; Dementia; Detection; Development; Devices; Diagnosis; Disease Management; Effectiveness; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Face; Facial Expression Recognition; Family Caregiver; Family member; Feedback; Financial Hardship; Frequencies; Frustration; Geriatric Psychiatry; Goals; Health Personnel; Health care facility; Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Hobbies; Hour; Human; Human body; Impaired cognition; Individual; Institutes; Instruction; Intelligence; Internet of Things; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Life; Long-Term Care for Elderly; Machine Learning; Measures; Memory; Memory Loss; Mental Depression; Methods; Monitor; Moods; Motor Skills; Natural Language Processing; Participant; Patients; Periodicity; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Phase; Physical activity; Pilot Projects; Play; Population; Psyche structure; Psychological reinforcement; Quality of life; Randomized; Research; Research Personnel; Robotics; Savings; Scientist; Short-Term Memory; Sleep disturbances; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Well-Being; Surveys; Symptoms; Taxes; Technology; Testing; Time; Voice; Well in self; active control; base; cognitive ability; cognitive rehabilitation; common symptom; community living; cost; design; effectiveness evaluation; exergame; experience; healthy aging; improved; innovative technologies; insight; interest; multidisciplinary; next generation; novel; prototype; repetitive behavior; skeletal movement; skills; social; social assistive robot; social relationships; success; tool

The objective of the proposed direct Phase-II SBIR project is to develop and study and the effectiveness of Serious Games and physical Activities played/performed by elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease and AD- related Dementias in interaction with Ryan, our successfully piloted Socially Assistive Robot (SAR). Ryan is an intelligent conversational life-like social robot, designed to improve the well-being and quality of life of older adults with AD/ADRD. Ryan uses state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technology for automated facial expression recognition, natural language processing, and tracking of human body that are used in personalization and adaptation of the games and physical activities. According to the Alzheimer’s Association an estimated 5.7 million Americans have AD and is projected to rise to 13.8 million, as the population ages. Common symptoms of AD/ADRD include cognitive decline, short-term memory loss, changes in mood, depression, communication difficulties, lost interest in hobbies or activities, and repetitive behavior. Americans suffering from AD/ADRD are believed to cost the nation $236 billion annually with projected annual costs of over $1 trillion by 2050. Traditional methods for disease management have shown limited success treating AD/ADRD or mitigating its symptoms. Health care personnel and caregivers who are physically and emotionally taxed are seeking new ways to provide care for elderly individuals and particularly those suffering from AD/ADRD. Innovative technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, have begun to alleviate the growing need for novel solutions to the healthcare. Among such technologies, socially assistive robots such as Ryan have received a great amount of attention in recent years. While SAR research prototypes exist that can interact with users playing physical cognitive games equipped with artificial intelligence technology and personalization, to our knowledge, no such cooperative SAR (prototype or commercial) for electronic gameplay with individuals suffering from dementia exists today. Our game designs will target “Cognition”, “Memory”, “Spatial Relation”, “Social Relationship”, and “Motor Skills” abilities of players. We will conduct a pilot study to measure Ryan’s effectiveness in mental and socio- emotional stimulation of users with mild dementia. This innovative technology stands to produce significant financial savings and improve the quality of life of individuals living with AD/ADRD, their families, and caregivers.

拟议的直接第二阶段 SBIR 项目的目标是开发和研究 SBIR 的有效性 患有阿尔茨海默病和 AD 的老年人进行的严肃游戏和体育活动 与 Ryan 互动相关的痴呆症，我们成功试用的社交辅助机器人 (SAR)。 智能对话式生活社交机器人，旨在改善老年人的福祉和生活质量 Ryan 使用最先进的人工智能技术进行自动面部护理。 表情识别、自然语言处理、人体跟踪等 根据阿尔茨海默病协会的说法，游戏和体育活动的个性化和适应。 据估计，有 570 万美国人患有 AD，并且随着人口老龄化，这一数字预计将增加到 1380 万。 AD/ADRD 的常见症状包括认知能力下降、短期记忆丧失、情绪变化、 抑郁、沟通困难、对爱好或活动失去兴趣以及重复行为。 据信，AD/ADRD 每年给国家造成 2360 亿美元的损失，预计每年的费用为 到 2050 年将超过 1 万亿美元。传统的疾病管理方法在治疗方面取得的成功有限 AD/ADRD 或减轻其症状的卫生保健人员和护理人员。 精神负担重的人正在寻找新的方法来为老年人，特别是那些遭受痛苦的人提供护理 来自 AD/ADRD 的创新技术，例如人工智能、机器人和物联网 (IoT)。 设备，已开始缓解对医疗保健新颖解决方案日益增长的需求。 随着技术的进步，像 Ryan 这样的社交辅助机器人近年来受到了广泛的关注。 虽然 SAR 研究原型可以与玩物理认知游戏的用户进行交互 随着人工智能技术和个性化的发展，据我们所知，还没有这样的合作SAR 如今，针对痴呆症患者的电子游戏（原型或商业）已经存在。 游戏设计将针对“认知”、“记忆”、“空间关系”、“社交关系”和“运动技能” 我们将进行一项试点研究来衡量瑞安在心理和社交方面的有效性。 这项创新技术对患有轻度痴呆症的用户进行情感刺激将产生显着的效果。 节省财务并提高 AD/ADRD 患者及其家人的生活质量 照顾者。