Speech and Automata in Health Care

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Speech and Automata in Health Care

With contributions by: Jenay M. Beer, Conrad Bzura, Piero Cosi, Hosung Im, David B. Kaber, Vladimir Kulyukin, R.J. Linton, Tammy Liu, Kevin Malehorn, Erik Marchi, Derek McColl, Goldie Nejat, Giulio Paci, Taskin Padir, Fabien Ringeval, Wendy A. Rogers, Björn Schuller, Giacomo Sommavilla, Manida Swangnetr, António Joaquim S. Teixeira, Fabio Tesser, Bengisu Tulu, Juan P. Wachs, Tao Zhang and Biwen Zhu
Edited by: Amy Neustein

Volume 3 in the series Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515159

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Examines various speech technologies deployed in healthcare service robots to maximize the robot's ability to interpret user input.
Demonstrates how robot anthropomorphic features and etiquette in behavior promotes user-positive emotions, acceptance of robots, and compliance with robot requests.
Analyzes how multimodal medical-service robots and other cyber-physical systems can reduce mistakes and mishaps in the operating room.
Evaluates various input methods for improving acceptance of robots in the older adult population.
Presents case studies of cognitively and socially engaging robots in the long-term care setting for helping older adults with activities of daily living and in the pediatric setting for helping children with autism spectrum conditions and metabolic disorders.

Speech and Automata in Health Care forges new ground by closely analyzing how three separate disciplines - speech technology, robotics, and medical/surgical/assistive care - intersect with one another, resulting in an innovative way of diagnosing and treating both juvenile and adult illnesses and conditions. This includes the use of speech-enabled robotics to help the elderly population cope with common problems associated with aging caused by the diminution in their sensory, auditory and motor capabilities. By examining the emerging nexus of speech, automata, and health care, the authors demonstrate the exciting potential of automata, both speech-driven and multimodal, to affect the healthcare delivery system so that it better meets the needs of the populations it serves. This book provides both empirical research findings and incisive literature reviews that demonstrate some of the more novel uses of speech-enabled and multimodal automata in the operating room, hospital ward, long-term care facility, and in the home. Studies backed by major universities, research institutes, and by EU-funded collaborative projects are debuted in this volume.

This volume provides a wealth of timely material for industrial engineers, speech scientists, computational linguists, and for signal processing and intelligent systems design experts.

Topics include:

Spoken Interaction with Healthcare Robots
Service Robot Feature Effects on Patient Acceptance/Emotional Response
Designing Embodied and Virtual Agents for the Operating Room
The Emerging Role of Robotics for Personal Health Management in the Older-Adult Population
Why Input Methods for Robots that Serve the Older Adult Are Critical for Usability
Socially and Cognitively Engaging Robots in the Long-Term Care Setting
Voice-Enabled Assistive Robots for Managing Autism Spectrum Conditions
ASR and TTS for Voice-Controlled Robot Interactions in Treating Children with Metabolic Disorders

Focus on novel uses of speech-enabled and multimodal automata in the operating room, hospital ward, long-term care facility, and in the home.

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Amy Neustein, Fort Lee, NJ.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Introduction Amy Neustein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
List of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Part I. The evolution and design of service robots in health care: evaluating the role of speech and other modalities in human-robot interaction
1. A critical analysis of speech- based interaction in healthcare robots: making a case for the increased use of speech in medical and assistive robots António Teixeira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Speech- based interaction with service robots: a survey of methods and approaches Vladimir Kulyukin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Improving patient-robot interaction in health care: service robot feature effects on patient acceptance and emotional responses Manida Swangnetr, David B. Kaber, Biwen Zhu and Tao Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Designing embodied and virtual agents for the operating room: taking a closer look at multimodal medical-service robots and other cyber-physical systems Juan P. Wachs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part II. Design and usability of medical and assistive robots in elder care: reporting on case studies and pilot test results
5. The emerging role of robotics for personal health management in the older-adult population Bengisu Tulu, Taskin Padir, R. J. Linton, Kevin Malehorn, Tammy Liu, Conrad Bzura and Hosung Im Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6. Enabling older adults to interact with robots: why input methods are critical for usability Jenay M. Beer and Wendy A. Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
7. Human-robot interaction for assistance with activities of daily living: a case study of the socially and cognitively engaging Brian 2.1 in the long-term care setting Derek McColl and Goldie Nejat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part III. Speech-driven companion robots for children with medical and neurodevelopmental disorders: presenting empirical findings of EU-sponsored projects and prototypes
8. Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions: an examination of the role of prosody Erik Marchi, Fabien Ringeval and Björn Schuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
9. ASR and TTS for voice controlled child-robot interactions in italian: empirical study findings on the Aliz-e project for treating children with metabolic disorders in the hospital setting Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser, Giulio Paci and Piero Cosi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Editor’s biography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Biomedical engineers, military trauma experts, doctors, nurses, speech scientists, and linguists.
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 266
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 100
- Coloured Illustrations: 20
- Tables: 20
Keywords: speech processing; speech automata; assistive robots; robot companions; human-robot interaction.

eBook

Published: November 10, 2014
ISBN: 9781614515159

Hardcover

Published: October 27, 2014
ISBN: 9781614517092