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

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02779517
• Other study ID #: 819669
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: University of Pennsylvania
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 62
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Intervention

Other:
• 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).
• 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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Penn Medicine Rittenhouse	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pennsylvania

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

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

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Perception of the interaction with the robot	Perception of the robot measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.	up to 1 week
Primary	Usability of the robot	Portability, ease of set up, cost, and appearance measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.	up to 1 week
Primary	Sociability with the robot	Sociability of robot measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.	up to 1 week
Secondary	Design requirements	Design requirements measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.	up to 1 week