Heterogeneous Robot-Assisted Services in Isolation Wards: A System Development and Usability Study
作者: Youngsun Kwon, Soyeon Shin, Kyonmo Yang, Seongah Park, Soomin Shin, Hwawoo Jeon, Kijung Kim, Guhnoo Yun, Sangyong Park, Jeewon Byun, Sang Hoon Kang, Kyoung-Ho Song, Doik Kim, Dong Hwan Kim, Kapho Seo, Sonya S. Kwak, Yoonseob Lim
摘要
Isolation wards operate in quarantine rooms to prevent cross-contamination caused by infectious diseases. Behind the benefits, medical personnel can have the infection risk from patients and the heavy workload due to the isolation. This work proposes a robot-assisted system to alleviate these problems in isolation wards. We conducted a survey about the medical staff's difficulties and envisioning robots. Using the investigation result, we devised three valuable services using two kinds of heterogeneous robots: telemedicine, emergency alert, and delivery services by care robots and delivery robots. Our system also provides user-interactive components such as a dashboard for medical staff and a patient app for inpatients. To manage the services efficiently, we suggest the robotic system based on a central control server and a hierarchical management architecture. Through a user study, we reviewed the usability of the developed system and its future directions.