Mobile Service Robot for Task-Oriented Stroke Therapy: User Evaluations

NCT ID: NCT02779517

Last Updated: 2021-06-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 62 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2016-12-31

Brief Summary

By developing an affordable mobile service robot for therapeutic activities in a health center environment, this project addresses the issue of both the high cost and man-power required to provide rehabilitation for stroke survivors and other patients. Our goal is to measure users - clinician and patient - responses to a telepresence robot, VGo, that has been modified with a humanoid torso robot, NAO, to facilitate remote communication between the patient and clinician, and to complete supervisory exercise coaching.

Detailed Description

This is a short demonstration and survey study. Clinical staff and patients will be gathered together and our idea for the mobile service robot will discussed. A demonstration of the telepresence feature of the robots and the NAO robot greeting and helping them with simple exercises will follow (e.g., pick up and object that is handy and lift their hands over their heads). The approximately 30-minute demonstration part of the study will start with an introduction and explanation about the project and a short speech about the Rehabilitation and Robotics Lab. After the demonstration the oral consent will be read and surveys will be handed out to those study participants who agree to complete them; if necessary, the research team will assist the study participant with the survey. Surveys will then be collected, and the group will be thanked by the research team.

Conditions

Stroke

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Focus groups- Patients

Subjects with or without an upper extremity disability will be asked to observe and interact with the mobile service robot.

Mobile Service Robot Survey for Patients

Intervention Type: OTHER

The goal is to build a low-cost mobile service robot that will focus on the simple, but key, repetitive, data-driven tasks that robots do well. Rather than attempt to create a robot helper that mimics humans, the goal is to free human caregivers from the time-consuming tasks that robots can accomplish with facility, thereby allowing humans to focus on tasks that humans do best (i.e. human contact). This survey differs in terms of design questions.

Focus Groups-clinicians

Clinicians with neuro-rehab experience.

Mobile Service Robot Survey

Intervention Type: OTHER

The goal is to build a low-cost mobile service robot that will focus on the simple, but key, repetitive, data-driven tasks that robots do well. Rather than attempt to create a robot helper that mimics humans, the goal is to free human caregivers from the time-consuming tasks that robots can accomplish with facility, thereby allowing humans to focus on tasks that humans do best (i.e. human contact).

Interventions

Mobile Service Robot Survey

The goal is to build a low-cost mobile service robot that will focus on the simple, but key, repetitive, data-driven tasks that robots do well. Rather than attempt to create a robot helper that mimics humans, the goal is to free human caregivers from the time-consuming tasks that robots can accomplish with facility, thereby allowing humans to focus on tasks that humans do best (i.e. human contact).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Mobile Service Robot Survey for Patients

The goal is to build a low-cost mobile service robot that will focus on the simple, but key, repetitive, data-driven tasks that robots do well. Rather than attempt to create a robot helper that mimics humans, the goal is to free human caregivers from the time-consuming tasks that robots can accomplish with facility, thereby allowing humans to focus on tasks that humans do best (i.e. human contact). This survey differs in terms of design questions.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Certified rehabilitation healthcare professionals
• Participants with upper extremity disabilities
• Participant must be older than 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

-Less than 18 years of age

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Michelle J Johnson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Penn Medicine Rittenhouse

Locations

Penn Medicine Rittenhouse

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Countries

United States

References

Wilk R. and Johnson MJ. 5th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. ; 08/2014. doi:10.1109/BIOROB.2014.6913816

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

819669

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id