BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Brisbane BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19920301T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180503T000000Z UID:80E84E7A-B317-42B5-8146-611D7F39F8BC DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20180215T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20180215T110000 DESCRIPTION:A Robotic Mediator to Preserve Dignity in Stigmatizing Patient- Caregiver Relationships\n\nPatients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experi ence challenges when interacting with caregivers due to their declining co ntrol over their musculature. In particular\, early stage Parkinson’s di sease is characterized by facial masking that reduces the ability for a ca regiver to effectively comprehend the emotional state of a patient. To rem edy these challenges\, we hypothesize that a robot mediator can be used to assist in the relationship between PD patients and their caregivers\, red ucing the stigmatization that often occurs due to this loss of nonverbal c ommunication. To overcome this stigmatization\, providing therapeutic robo ts with an ethical architecture can potentially help to ensure that patien ts’ and caregivers’ dignity is maintained.\n\nTowards this goal of mai ntaining effective patient–caregiver relationships and preventing the lo ss of dignity\, we have developed two approaches to address this problem t hat leverage our prior research in ethical architectures. First\, we are s tudying the introduction of a robotic co-mediator to increase the communic ative bandwidth in this relationship for fostering empathic response in th e caregiver. This requires modeling moral emotions in the patient\, such a s shame and embarrassment\, while looking for lack of congruence in the ca regiver regarding the perception of the emotional state of the patient. A PD patient is liable to suffer indignity when there is a substantial diffe rence between his experienced shame and the empathy shown by the caregiver . When this difference strays from acceptable norms\, the robotic agent wi ll act using subtle\, nonverbal kinesic (body language) cues to drive the relationship towards acceptable social and medical treatment norms with th e intent of preserving patient dignity. Second\, we have developed an exte nsion of our robotic ethical governor that enables intervention should acc eptable behavioral bounds be exceeded by either the patient or the caregiv er. Here\, the approach to uphold PD patient dignity is through the use of an ethical robot that mediates patient shame when it recognizes norm viol ations in the patient-caregiver interaction by overt robotic action using kinesic and verbal intervention as required.\n\nThis research is funded by the National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative under Grant #IIS 1317214.\n\nCo-sponsored by: CSIRO\n\nSpeaker(s): Ronald C. Arkin\, \ n\nBldg: Level 5\, UQ Health Science Building\, AEHRC\, Herston\, Queensla nd\, Australia\, 4006 LOCATION:Bldg: Level 5\, UQ Health Science Building\, AEHRC\, Herston\, Que ensland\, Australia\, 4006 ORGANIZER:qing.zhang@csiro.au SEQUENCE:7 SUMMARY:Due to unfortunate circumstances we have to postpone this event. We will send you an email notification for new arrangements soon. URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160454 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="text-decoration: line-through \;">A Robotic Mediator to Preserve Dignity in Stigmatizing Patient-Caregiv er Relationships</span></p>\n<p>Patients with Parkinson&rsquo\;s disease ( PD) experience challenges when interacting with caregivers due to their de clining control over their musculature. In particular\, early stage Parkin son&rsquo\;s disease is characterized by facial masking that reduces the a bility for a caregiver to effectively comprehend the emotional state of a patient. To remedy these challenges\, we hypothesize that a robot mediator can be used to assist in the relationship between PD patients and their c aregivers\, reducing the stigmatization that often occurs due to this loss of nonverbal communication. To overcome this stigmatization\, providing t herapeutic robots with an ethical architecture can potentially help to ens ure that patients&rsquo\; and caregivers&rsquo\; dignity is maintained.</p >\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Towards this goal of maintaining effect ive patient&ndash\;caregiver relationships and preventing the loss of dign ity\, we have developed two approaches to address this problem that levera ge our prior research in ethical architectures. First\, we are studying th e introduction of a robotic co-mediator to increase the communicative band width in this relationship for fostering empathic response in the caregive r. This requires modeling moral emotions in the patient\, such as shame an d embarrassment\, while looking for lack of congruence in the caregiver re garding the perception of the emotional state of the patient. A PD patient is liable to suffer indignity when there is a substantial difference betw een his experienced shame and the empathy shown by the caregiver. When thi s difference strays from acceptable norms\, the robotic agent will act usi ng subtle\, nonverbal kinesic (body language) cues to drive the relationsh ip towards acceptable social and medical treatment norms with the intent o f preserving patient dignity. Second\, we have developed an extension of o ur robotic ethical governor that enables intervention should acceptable be havioral bounds be exceeded by either the patient or the caregiver. Here\, the approach to uphold PD patient dignity is through the use of an ethica l robot that mediates patient shame when it recognizes norm violations in the patient-caregiver interaction by overt robotic action using kinesic an d verbal intervention as required. &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p> \n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; This research is funded by the National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative under Grant #IIS 1317214.< /p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR