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A Design Tool for Therapeutic Social-Physical Human-Robot Interactions
We live in an aging society; social-physical human-robot interaction has the potential to keep our elderly adults healthy by motivating them to exercise. After summarizing prior work, this paper proposes a tool that can be used to design exercise and therapy interactions to be performed by an upper-body humanoid robot. The interaction design tool comprises a teleoperation system that transmits the operator’s arm motions, head motions and facial expression along with an interface to monitor and assess the motion of the user interacting with the robot. We plan to use this platform to create dynamic and intuitive exercise interactions.
@misc{Mohan19-HRIWS-Design, title = {A Design Tool for Therapeutic Social-Physical Human-Robot Interactions}, abstract = {We live in an aging society; social-physical human-robot interaction has the potential to keep our elderly adults healthy by motivating them to exercise. After summarizing prior work, this paper proposes a tool that can be used to design exercise and therapy interactions to be performed by an upper-body humanoid robot. The interaction design tool comprises a teleoperation system that transmits the operator’s arm motions, head motions and facial expression along with an interface to monitor and assess the motion of the user interacting with the robot. We plan to use this platform to create dynamic and intuitive exercise interactions.}, howpublished = {Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop}, address = {Daegu, South Korea}, month = mar, year = {2019}, slug = {mohan19-hrip-design}, author = {Mohan, Mayumi and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.}, month_numeric = {3} }