RSUSSH 2020
Human-Robot Interaction for Medical Robotics
Prof. Dr. Poramate Manoonpong
School of Information Science & Technology, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science & Technology (VISTEC)
Keynote G1-1
Abstract
It has been a dream to have robots that can perform medical services for the well-being of humans. To provide useful services, they have to autonomously adapt to individual users as well as perform natural, timely, and smooth humanârobot interaction (HRI). In this talk, I will introduce our projects where we have developed bio-inspired robot control technology to address three aspects of HRI (including, distal HRI, proximal HRI, and close HRI) for disabled people assistance and elderly care.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Thank you for your presentation Dr. Poramate. In the video demonstration of the Smooth robot, two people helped the elderly resident to operate the robot - one at the beginning and one at the end of the guided journey to the dining room. How are elderly patients supposed to operate these robots by themselves? (i.e. someone who cannot understand/remember how to find the dining room is unlikely to remember how to operate such a device). Are you considering any innovative user-interface/control systems that might solve this issue?
Regarding the monkey project, I do not think the use of monkeys is justified for this application. Please consider using human subjects with non-invasive recording techniques instead, which will be more representative of a human-controlled smart house.
@30 Apr 20, 01:20 PM