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

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke
• Interventions: Other: Mobile Service Robot Survey for Patients; Other: Mobile Service Robot Survey

• Registration Number: NCT02779517
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted: 2016-03-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-05-17
• Study First Posted: 2016-05-20
• Primary Completion: 2016-12
• Study Completion: 2016-12
• Status Verified: 2021-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-06-21
• Last Update Posted: 2021-06-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 62

Inclusion Criteria

• Certified rehabilitation healthcare professionals
• Participants with upper extremity disabilities
• Participant must be older than 18 years

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Exclusion Criteria

-Less than 18 years of age

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Focus groups- Patients	Mobile Service Robot Survey for Patients	Subjects with or without an upper extremity disability will be asked to observe and interact with the mobile service robot.
Focus Groups-clinicians	Mobile Service Robot Survey	Clinicians with neuro-rehab experience.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perception of the interaction with the robot	up to 1 week	Perception of the robot measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.
Usability of the robot	up to 1 week	Portability, ease of set up, cost, and appearance measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.
Sociability with the robot	up to 1 week	Sociability of robot measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Design requirements	up to 1 week	Design requirements measured by surveys administered to participants as well as by observation with the robot.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Penn Medicine Rittenhouse; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States