title: Improving robotics for neurorehabilitation: enhancing engagement, performance, and learning with auditory feedback.
abstract: This paper reports on an ongoing research collaboration between the University of Padua and the University of California Irvine, on the use of continuous auditory-feedback in robot-assisted neurorehabilitation of post-stroke patients. This feedback modality is mostly underexploited in current robotic rehabilitation systems, that usually implement very basic auditory feedback interfaces. The results of this research show that generating a proper sound cue during robot assisted movement training can help patients in improving engagement, performance and learning in the exercise.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy I-35131. giulio.rosati@unipd.it
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rosati
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oscari
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Reinkensmeyer
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Secoli
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Avanzini
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spagnol
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masiero
mesh_terms: D056228:Feedback, Sensory / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation