"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 designed to measure the position and pressure applied to a patient’s body, with the goal of quantifying the “touch” component of the Humanitude care technique. Humanitude has recently gained recognition as a gentle and effective approach to caring for individuals with dementia. The wearable tactile sensor enables quantitative evaluation of the touch skill—one of the four key elements of Humanitude, along with gaze, speech, and assisted standing. Additionally, we are developing a training system called HEARTS, which uses AR technology in combination with a physical object. This system allows interaction between a caregiver and a patient by overlaying a virtual patient’s face and eyes onto a real doll, enhancing realism and immersive training experiences.
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] - Understanding Humanitude Care for Sit-To-Stand Motion by Wearable Sensors
Qi An, Akito Tanaka, Kazuto Nakashima, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi, Ryo Kurazume
2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp.1874-1879, doi:10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945156, Czech Republic, 2022.9.9-12, 2022
[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.4148-4154, 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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