2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Physical Agents to Relieve Human Pain by Social Touch
Project/Area Number |
20K21800
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Medium-sized Section 61:Human informatics and related fields
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Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-07-30 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | 物理エージェント |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
A physical agent device that reduces pain when receiving an injection was developed. This device, which utilizes the characteristics of social touch and physical agents, reduces the user's perceived pain by presenting the user with the sensation of "holding" and "being held". The final device was developed through multiple prototypes of physical agents. In addition, an experimental protocol was developed and tested to verify the effectiveness of the physical agent device with reference to previous findings in the Pain Research field.
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Free Research Field |
知能ロボティクス
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
「握る」感覚と「握られる」感覚を同時あるいは任意タイミングで提示可能な物理エージェントデバイスの開発、さらにはそれを人の痛み軽減に活かそうとする試みは学術的新規性を有する。さらにはそのデバイス利用の有効性検証に向けて、熱刺激装置を用いた痛み実験プロトコルを確立した点にも学術的な意義があるものと考えられる。ワクチン接種などの機会が全世界的に増えている近年では、将来の応用可能性に向けて社会的なニーズや意義も大きいものと考えられる。
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