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A List of Household Objects for Robotic Retrieval Prioritized by People with ALS

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dc.contributor.author Choi, Young Sang en_US
dc.contributor.author Deyle, Travis en_US
dc.contributor.author Chen, Tiffany L. en_US
dc.contributor.author Glass, Jonathan D. en_US
dc.contributor.author Kemp, Charles C. en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Healthcare Robotics Lab en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Emory University. Dept. of Neurology en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2011-03-11T18:46:34Z
dc.date.available 2011-03-11T18:46:34Z
dc.date.issued 2009-06
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dc.description Presented at ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 23-26 June 2009, Kyoto International Conference Center. en_US
dc.description DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209484 en_US
dc.description.abstract Studies have consistently shown that object retrieval would be a valuable task for assistive robots to perform, yet detailed information about the needs of patients with respect to this task has been lacking. In this paper, we present our efforts to better understand the needs of motor impaired patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with the goal of informing the design and evaluation of assistive mobile robots. We first describe our results from a needs assessment involving 8 patients from the Emory ALS Center. We provided patients and caregivers with cameras and notepads to document when objects were dropped or were otherwise unreachable in daily life. This study confirmed the importance of robotic retrieval and resulted in documented cases of objects being dropped and out of reach for 1 to 120 minutes. Based on this initial study, we created a questionnaire to assess the importance of various objects for robotic retrieval using the Likert scale. We administered this survey to 25 patients through in-person interviews. These studies culminated in a prioritized list of 43 object classes for robotic retrieval. Using the Friedman test we show that the rankings from the patients are statistically consistent. We present this list and discuss its implications for designing and benchmarking assistive robots. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Young Sang Choi ; Deyle, T. ; Chen, T. ; Glass, J.D. ; Kemp, C.C. , “A list of household objects for robotic retrieval prioritized by people with ALS,” ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 23-26 June 2009, 510-517. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-4244-3788-7
dc.identifier.issn 1945-7898
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37363
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers en_US
dc.subject Diseases en_US
dc.subject Handicapped aids en_US
dc.subject Manipulators en_US
dc.subject Medical robotics en_US
dc.subject Mobile robots en_US
dc.subject Neurophysiology en_US
dc.subject Patient care en_US
dc.subject Service robots en_US
dc.title A List of Household Objects for Robotic Retrieval Prioritized by People with ALS en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.author Kemp, Charles C.
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