| Project/Area Number |
04551003
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Psychology
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Atsuya Kyoto Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Associate Prof., 工芸学部, 助教授 (50191573)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MURAKAMI Masayoshi National Cardiovascular Center, Dept.of Perinatology, Physician, 周産期治療科, 医師
HORIO Hiroyuki National Cardiovascular Center, Research Institute, Chief Researcher, 研究所, 室長 (20157069)
CHIBA Yoshihide National Cardiovascular Center, Dept.of Perinatology, Chief, 周産期治療科, 医長
HASEGAWA Toshitune Osaka University, School of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (90144469)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥4,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000)
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| Keywords | Human Interface / Behavior / Premature Baby / Monitoring Robot / Intensive Care / Incubator / Observation / Mother Base / ロボット / マザーベース |
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| Research Abstract |
The prematurely born infant begins extra-uterine life in the very unusual environment of an incubator. When designing incubators, although they are aimed at sustaining life and enhancing the possibility of the intact survival of the prematurely born infant, it is very important to also consider the environmental conditions of incubators in terms of the infants' behavioral development and communication.
The technology that supports human communication and its development is called "Human Interface". When considering the human interface with machines, the notion of "User Friendly" emphasizes the easy operation of the machine. However the human interface also emphasizes that the machine should be designed to eliminate communication barriers among people around machines. We can utilize the human interface technology to consider the incubator environment.
From this point or view, we investigated the incubator environmental characteristics associated with intensive care and examined their influence on the behaviors of extremely premature infants and medical nursing staff. We also developed a computer-based behavior monitoring robot (BMR) for measuring the influence of the incubator environment on infants' behaviors.
BMR monitored that extremely premature infants in incubators showed various kinds of behaviors including emotional expressions in response to the environmental stimulation caused by the activities of medical nursing staff in the neonatal intensive care unit, while we observed that behaviors of the medical nursing staff were not responsive to the infants' communicative behaviors, because of the human interface problem in the incubator environment and the nursing program. These results suggested there is a need to reconsider the environmental conditions of neonatal intensive care and to develop a new paradigm of intensive care which would allow behavioral interactions between an infant and a caretaker.
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