Development of a robot patient that facilitates transfer learning of nursing skills

• Project/Area Number: 15H02761
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Ota Jun 東京大学, 人工物工学研究センター, 教授 (50233127)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 金井パック 雅子 関東学院大学, 看護学部, 教授 (50204532) ; 桑原 教彰 京都工芸繊維大学, 情報工学・人間科学系, 教授 (60395168) ; 前田 樹海 東京有明医療大学, 看護学部, 教授 (80291574)
• Research Collaborator: Ogata Taiki ; Kitajima Yasuko ; Nakamura Mitsuhiro
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥16,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,780,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥7,020,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,620,000)
• Keywords: 知能ロボティクス / エージェント / 看護学 / 情報工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To improve the skills for nurses, the mock patient acted by stationary　manikins or healthy people is generally utilized for simulation of patient's　performance. However, such mock patients cannot precisely reproduce the real　patients.
To develop a robot patient which could accurately reproduce the patients' limb movements and interact with the trainee would be great help for the nurses to improve their nursing skills.
Concretely, the following things have been conducted: analysis of nursing care process and of situations of patients, basic experiments for nursing care behavior analysis, design of a patient robot, and experiments to show the effectiveness of the proposed system for educational purpose.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

多様な症状を再現可能な患者ロボットを作成し看護学生教育に用いることで，看護学生が多様な患者を相手に看護ケア技術の習得ができる点が最も大きな学術的意義である．その際，多様な患者を再現できるロボットシステム開発，ロボット患者にどのような疾患を与えるかの考察等が研究の観点からのブレークスルーであった．このようなロボットの開発は看護学生の看護ケアスキルを長期的に向上させる意味から社会的意義も大変大きい．

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Effect of practice on similar and dissimilar skills in patient transfer through training with a robot patient (2019)
  • Author(s): Lin Chingszu、Huang Zhifeng、Kanai-Pak Masako、Maeda Jukai、Kitajima Yasuko、Nakamura Mitsuhiro、Kuwahara Noriaki、Ogata Taiki、Ota Jun
  • Journal Title: Advanced Robotics Volume: 33 Issue: 6 Pages: 278-292
  • DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2019.1578689
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Translational Acceleration, Rotational Speed, and Joint Angle of Patients Related to Correct/Incorrect Methods of Transfer Skills by Nurses (2018)
  • Author(s): Lin Chingszu、Kanai-Pak Masako、Maeda Jukai、Kitajima Yasuko、Nakamura Mitsuhiro、Kuwahara Noriaki、Ogata Taiki、Ota Jun
  • Journal Title: Sensors Volume: 18 Issue: 9 Pages: 2975-2975
  • DOI: 10.3390/s18092975
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Learning patient transfer skill by using a robot patient (2018)
  • Author(s): Lin,C. Kanai-Pak,M., Maeda,J., Kitajima,Y., Nakamura,M., Ogata,T., & Ota,J
  • Journal Title: Joint international conference of service science and innovation and serviceology (ICSSI2018 & ICServ2018) Volume: - Pages: 415-415
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Indirect evaluation of nurse’s transfer skill through the measurement of patient (2018)
  • Author(s): Lin,Chingszu, Huang,Zhifeng, Kanai-Pak,Masako, Maeda,Jukai, Kitajima,Yasuko, Nakamura,Mitsuhiro, Kuwahara,Noriaki, Ogata,Taiki, & Ota,Jun
  • Journal Title: Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management: Ergonomics and design, 9th International conference , DHM2018, Proceedings, LNCS 10917 Volume: - Pages: 440-453
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Impact of Using a Robot Patient for Nursing Skill Training in Patient Transfer (2017)
  • Author(s): Huang Zhifeng、Lin Chingszu、Kanai-Pak Masako、Maeda Jukai、Kitajima Yasuko、Nakamura Mitsuhiro、Kuwahara Noriaki、Ogata Taiki、Ota Jun
  • Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Pages: 355-366
  • DOI: 10.1109/tlt.2016.2599537
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Robot Patient Design to Simulate Various Patients for Transfer Training (2017)
  • Author(s): Huang Zhifeng、Lin Chingszu、Kanai-Pak Masako、Maeda Jukai、Kitajima Yasuko、Nakamura Mitsuhiro、Kuwahara Noriaki、Ogata Taiki、Ota Jun
  • Journal Title: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Volume: 22 Issue: 5 Pages: 2079-2090
  • DOI: 10.1109/tmech.2017.2730848
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Mannequin system for the self-training of nurses in the changing of clothes (2016)
  • Author(s): Ogata,Taiki, Nagata,Ayanori, Huang,Zhifeng, Katayama,Takahiro, Kanai-Pak,Masako, Maeda,Jukai, Kitajima,Yasuko, Nakamura,Mitsuhiro, Aida,Kyoko, Kuwahara,Noriaki, & Ota,Jun
  • Journal Title: Kybernetes Volume: 45 Issue: 5 Pages: 839-852
  • DOI: 10.1108/k-04-2015-0102
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] 患者の多様な状況を考慮した患者ロボットの開発 (2016)
  • Author(s): 緒方 大樹, 林 静思, 黄 之峰, 金井 Pak 雅子, 前田 樹海, 北島 泰子, 中村 充浩, 桑原 教彰, 太田 順.
  • Journal Title: サービス学会第4回国内大会講演論文集 Volume: 1 Pages: 187-188
• [Journal Article] Design and evaluation of robot patient for nursing skill training in patient transfer (2015)
  • Author(s): Huang,Zhifeng, Katayama,Takahiro, Kanai-Pak,Masako, Maeda,Jukai, Kitajima,Yasuko, Nakamura,Mitsuhiro, Aida,Kyoko Kuwahara,Noriaki, Ogata,Taiki & Ota,Jun
  • Journal Title: Advanced Robotics Volume: 29 Issue: 19 Pages: 1269-1285
  • DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2015.1052012
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Learning patient transfer skill by using a robot patient (2018)
  • Author(s): Lin,C. Kanai-Pak,M., Maeda,J., Kitajima,Y., Nakamura,M., Ogata,T., & Ota,J
  • Organizer: Joint international conference of service science and innovation and serviceology (ICSSI2018 & ICServ2018)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Indirect evaluation of nurse’s transfer skill through the measurement of patient. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Digital Human Modeling (2018)
  • Author(s): Lin,Chingszu, Huang,Zhifeng, Kanai-Pak,Masako, Maeda,Jukai, Kitajima,Yasuko, Nakamura,Mitsuhiro, Kuwahara,Noriaki, Ogata,Taiki, & Ota,Jun
  • Organizer: 9th International conference on Digital Human Modeling, Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management: Ergonomics and design, DHM2018
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 看護されるロボットを造る. パネルディスカッション「ITやロボットは本当に看護に役立つの？」 (2018)
  • Author(s): 太田 順
  • Organizer: 第22回日本看護管理学会学術集会
• [Presentation] 患者の多様な状況を考慮した患者ロボットの開発 (2016)
  • Author(s): 緒方 大樹
  • Organizer: サービス学会第4回国内大会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸大学百年記念館（兵庫県神戸市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-28
• [Presentation] Robot patient imitating paralysis patients for nursing students to learn patient transfer skill (2016)
  • Author(s): Lin,Chingszu, Huang,Zhifeng, Kanai-Pak,Masako, Kitajima,Yasuko, Nakamura,Mitsuhiro, Kuwahara,Noriaki, Ogata,Taiki, & Ota,Jun.
  • Organizer: Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-14)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Development of a portable compliant dual arm robot (2016)
  • Author(s): Huang,Zhifeng, Lin,Chingszu, Jiang,Ping, Taiki Ogata, & Ota,Jun
  • Organizer: Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-14)
  • Int'l Joint Research
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