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ALH-E: A Deformable and Flexible Robot that provides Tangible Interaction for Pain Communication

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It is difficult for humans to express their pain confidently. Generally, communication between patients and caregivers is important, but there are difficulties of interaction with existing methods. We propose an assistive robot, ALH-E, that consists of squeezable input device and wriggling output device for pain communication. The patients can log their pain by squeezing, and the output device can express the patient's pain intensity through dynamic wriggling movements. Human-robot interaction with ALH-E can be an assistive communication of pain between the patients and caregivers in the insufficient environment. This paper presents our development of the device and new interaction.

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  • (2023)Development of a Deformable and Flexible Robot for Pain Communication: Field Study of ALH-E in the Hospital*2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657(2322-2327)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023

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    HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    March 2023
    612 pages
    ISBN:9781450399708
    DOI:10.1145/3568294
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    1. deformable user interface
    2. flexible robot
    3. human-robot interaction
    4. pain communication

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    • (2023)Development of a Deformable and Flexible Robot for Pain Communication: Field Study of ALH-E in the Hospital*2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657(2322-2327)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023

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