论文标题
迈向社交HRI，以改善儿童的医疗体验
Towards Social HRI for Improving Children's Healthcare Experiences
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论文摘要
本文介绍了一个新的研究项目，该项目旨在开发一个社交机器人，旨在帮助孩子们在临床环境中应对痛苦而痛苦的医疗程序。尽管机器人以前曾被试用过此任务，但最初的结果有望，但这些系统倾向于进行远程处理，从而限制了它们的灵活性和鲁棒性。该项目将使用认识论计划技术作为机器人系统中行动选择的核心组成部分，以生成包括物理，感觉和与人类互动的社会行为在内的计划。机器人将在任务环境中运行，需要与孩子，父母/照顾者和医疗保健专业人员进行适当安全的互动。除了应对建立自主社会机器人的核心技术挑战外，该项目还将结合涉及所有参与者组的共同设计技术，最终机器人系统将在两场临床试验中进行评估。
This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop a social robot designed to help children cope with painful and distressing medical procedures in a clinical setting. While robots have previously been trialled for this task, with promising initial results, the systems have tended to be teleoperated, limiting their flexibility and robustness. This project will use epistemic planning techniques as a core component for action selection in the robot system, in order to generate plans that include physical, sensory, and social actions for interacting with humans. The robot will operate in a task environment where appropriate and safe interaction with children, parents/caregivers, and healthcare professionals is required. In addition to addressing the core technical challenge of building an autonomous social robot, the project will incorporate co-design techniques involving all participant groups, and the final robot system will be evaluated in a two-site clinical trial.
