Human-robot interaction (HRI) for rehabilitation patients with an animal robot using image processing

Santa, Mohamad Noriman (2017) Human-robot interaction (HRI) for rehabilitation patients with an animal robot using image processing. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This report presents the study of human robot-interaction (HRI) using therapeutic animal robot for the rehabilitation of patients with depression. The research involved therapeutic animal robot PARO and two patients from Tun Abdul Razak PERKESO Rehabilitation Centre Melaka. The objectives are to identify the HRI protocol using therapeutic animal robot PARO for patients with depression and to analyze the interaction between patient and animal robot PARO using OpenCV image processing algorithm. Experiments were conducted with two patients in two different sessions. The first session was to interview and introduce the robot to the patient and the second interaction was to continue the interaction between the patient and PARO robot. The duration of the interaction was compared between ten minutes without PARO and ten minutes interaction with PARO. The second session was carried out few days after the first session. Three evaluation methods were used to analyze the data collected from the experiments which are HRI survey, image processing and psychological tools (carried out by the psychologist). By using image processing to detect the number of smile of the patient, it can be seen that the number of smiles of both patients increased during the interaction with PARO robot. Results show that both patients were happy and their depression had reduced during their interaction with PARO.

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