Social Human-Robot Interaction for Gait Rehabilitation

Robot-assisted therapy for gait rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders usually combines a body weight support system with a treadmill system. Lokomatis oneof the most useddevicesforgait rehabilitation. This device allows therapists to focus on the patient and the therapy. However, this therapy session is based on multi-tasking processes, which are often difficult for a therapist to manage. In this work, a Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) was integrated into a neurorehabilitation programasacollaboratoragenttopromotepatientengagement and performance during the therapy. This short-term study presents the effects comparing the social robot condition and control condition with a group of four neurological patients using repeated measurementdesign. As a remarkable result, patients improved thoracic 18.44% and cervical 32.23%postureonaveragewithSARassistance.Thisstudy demonstrated the feasibility of the integration of a social robot as a complement of gait rehabilitation programs.

• Autores: Céspedes, Nathalia; Múnera, Marcela; Gómez, Catalina; Cifuentes, Carlos A.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional ECI
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co:001/3309
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/handle/001/3309; https://repositorio.escuelaing.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Rehabilitación médica; Medical rehabilitation; Robótica médica; Robotics in medicine; Tecnología médica; Medical technology; Neurología - Rehabilitación; Neurology - Rehabilitation; Gaitrehabilitación; Interacción humano-robot; Biorretroalimentación; Robótica de asistencia social; Gaitrehabilitation; Lokomat; Human-robot interaction; Biofeedback; Socially assistive robotics
• Rights: closedAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb