Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous 2019

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.

Author(s): Mayumi Mohan and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Year: 2019
Month: March
Project(s):
Bibtex Type: Miscellaneous (misc)
Address: Daegu, South Korea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673202
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
How Published: Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop
State: Published

BibTex

@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}
}