Using a Personalised Socially Assistive Robot for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Long-Term Case Study

Authors

B Irfan
NC Gomez
J Casas
E Senft
et al

Abstract

This paper presents a longitudinal case study of Robot Assisted Therapy for cardiac rehabilitation. The patient, who is a 60-year old male that suffered a myocardial infarction and received angioplasty surgery, successfully recovered after 35 sessions of rehabilitation with a social robot, lasting 18 weeks. The sessions took place directly at the clinic and relied on an exercise regime which was designed by the clinicians and delivered with the support of a social robot and a sensor suite. The robot monitored the patient's progress, and provided personalised encouragement and feedback. We discuss the recovery of the patient and illustrate how the use of a social robot, its sensory systems and its personalised interaction was instrumental to maintain engagement with the programme and to the patient's recovery. Of note is a critical event that was promptly detected by the robot, which allowed fast intervention measures to be taken by the medical staff for the referral of the patient for further surgery.

DOI

10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223491

Publication Date

2020-08-01

Event

2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Publication Title

2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1944-9437

Embargo Period

2024-11-22

Comments

No embargo required.

Recommended Citation

Irfan, B., Gomez, N., Casas, J., Senft, E., & et al. (2020) 'Using a Personalised Socially Assistive Robot for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Long-Term Case Study', 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), . IEEE: Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223491