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Neurorehabilitation therapies for stroke patients require many hours with therapists. To ease the lack of therapists, a solution may be given by the usage of a humanoid social robots. To prove, that this alternative may be viable, the therapy success must be compared to the gold standard of a human therapist. To achieve this, this robot variant should imitate and approximate the interaction with a human therapist. Thereby we have a focus on motivating the patient throughout the whole therapy. In this paper we describe the therapies with human therapists, highlight important requirements and our current solution for an implementation with the humanoid robot Pepper. We discuss the architecture of our solution and provide a specification of the dialogue structure with the robot based on expert interviews with medical doctors and therapists.
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This joint research project “E-BRAiN - Evidence-based Robot-Assistance in Neurorehabilitation” is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF), reference: ESF/14-BM-A55–0001/19-A01, and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. This work was further supported by the BDH Bundesverband Rehabilitation e.V. (charity for neurodisabilities) by a non-restricted personal grant to TP. The sponsors had no role in the decision to publish or any content of the publication.
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Bundea, A., Bader, S., Forbrig, P. (2021). Interaction and Dialogue Design of a Humanoid Social Robot in an Analogue Neurorehabilitation Application. In: Zimmermann, A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C., Schmidt, R. (eds) Human Centred Intelligent Systems . KES-HCIS 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 244. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3264-8_8
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