A drop-out rate in a long-term cognitive rehabilitation program through robotics aimed at children with TBI
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Barco, Alex; Albo-Canals, Jordi; Garriga-Berga, Carles; Vilasis-Cardona, Xavier; Callejon, Laura; Turon, Marc; Gomez, Claudia; Lopez-Sala, Anna
- Source
- The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on. :186-192 Aug, 2014
- Subject
- Robotics and Control Systems
Portable media players
Robot sensing systems
Educational institutions
Registers
Software
Pediatrics
- Language
- ISSN
- 1944-9445
1944-9437
This paper describes in detail the robot platform used in a rehabilitation program for children with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) under a project to compare a rehabilitation program through robotics (1) with a conventional rehabilitation program directed to parents (2) and a control group where no specific intervention is done (3). As LEGO ® has been demonstrated as a useful robotic tool able to enhance children motivation, we have used it attached to an iPod which includes several activities defined by neuropsychologists and customized for each patient. In this paper we present the hardware and the software of this robotic platform and also the description of the activities that have already been proposed to patients. We present results about the use of the robot showing that the drop-out rate is lower in the intervention group with robots than in the program directed to parents.