"Humanitude": Tender care for dementia
We participated in JST CREST's "Humanitude Project" from 2017 to 2022. In this project, we developed a wearable tactile sensor to measure the position and pressure applied on a patient's body, aiming to quantify the "touch" skill within the Humanitude care technique. Humanitude has recently gained attention as a gentle and effective method for caring for dementia patients. The wearable tactile sensor quantifies the "touch" skill, one of the four key skills in Humanitude, alongside gaze, talk, and stand up. Additionally, we are developing a training system using AR technology and a real object named "HEARTS," which enables interaction between a caregiver and a patient by overlaying a patient's face and eyes on a real doll using AR technology.
HEARTS, Humanitude AR Training System [GitHub]| Humanitude AR Training System, HEARTS 2 (French) | Humanitude AR Training System, HEARTS 2 (English) |
| Weareable touch sensor | AR training system |
| Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Preparation for meeting | Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Preparation for care |
| Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Connecting perception | Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Emotional connection and promise to meet again |
| Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Evaluation of touch skill | Humanituide AR Training System, HEARTS 3: Evaluation of touch skill using DNN |
Papers
- Development of AR training systems for Humanitude dementia care
Ryo Kurazume, Tomoki Hiramatsu, Masaya Kamei, Daiji Inoue, Akihiro Kawamura, Shoko Miyauchi, and Qi An
Advanced Robotics, Vol.36, No.7, pp.344-358, 2022, DOI:10.1080/01691864.2021.2017342
[pdf][bibtex] - Lifelogging caption generation via fourth-person vision in a human-robot symbiotic environment
Kazuto Nakashima, Yumi Iwashita, and Ryo Kurazume
ROBOMECH Journal, Vol., No., pp., 2020, DOI:
[pdf][bibtex] - Development of dementia care training system based on augmented reality and whole body wearable tactile sensor
Tomoki Hiramatsu, Masaya Kamei, Daiji Inoue, Akihiro Kawamura, Ryo Kurazume, 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Las Vegas, USA, 2020.10.25-29, pp., 2020
[pdf][bibtex] - First-person video analysis for evaluating skill level in the Humanitude tender-care technique
Atsushi Nakazawa, Yuki Mitsuzumi, Yuki Watanabe, Ryo Kurazume, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Miwako Honda, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol.98, No.1, pp.103-118, 2019, DOI:10.1007/s10846-019-01052-8 - Computational Tender-Care Science: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscientific Approaches for Understanding the Tender Care
Atsushi Nakazawa, Ryo Kurazume, Miwako Honda, Sato Wataru, Shogo Ishikawa, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Mio Ito, Workshop on Elderly Care Robotics - Technology and Ethics (WELCARO) in ICRA2018, Brisbane, Australia, 2018.5.21 - Development of AR care training system
Tomoki Hiramatsu, Akihiro Kawamura, Ryo Kurazume, Proc. The 15th Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics (MPR19), P2-17, Shiga, 2019.11.21-22
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