Conference Proceedings
In-situ design and development of a socially assistive robot for paediatric rehabilitation
F Martí Carrillo, J Butchart, S Knight, A Scheinberg, L Wise, L Sterling, C McCarthy
ACM IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY | Published : 2017
Abstract
We present the in-situ design and development of a general purpose social robot (NAO) as a therapeutic aid for paediatric rehabilitation. We describe our two-phase design approach, emphasising frequent patient/parent/therapist engagement and outline roles and requirements for our SAR prototype derived from this process. Our SAR prototype has now been deployed in the rehabilitation program of 9 patients with cerebral palsy, across 14 sessions where evaluation and iterative development is ongoing.
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Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the physiotherapists, patients and parents involved in this study. Project Funding: Traffic Accident Commission (TAC) and Data61 - CSIRO