Health and social care are two industrial sectors were technologies have always been pervasive in addressing the patients care of tomorrow. Indeed, stockholders in both sectors are increasingly investing resources in digital innovation, pushing for the adoption of disruptive paradigms, such as robotics, which is having a growing impact in health and social care through the provision of services for supporting physicians in making decisions. Moreover, unparalleled insights come out from robots when they operate with Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, keystone for taking full advantage from robotic AI applications is exploiting medical data. However, even if the industries are awash in them, data are typically not organized well and provided in time. In this thesis, we face on health and social care problems of two industrial use cases. On one side, the IRCCS Centro Neurolesi ''Bonino Pulejo`` (Messina, Italy) received from us support in building a clinical Cloud workflow for collecting, organizing and integrating health care data from gait training robotics equipment, and therefore turning them into an exploratory analysis with the purpose to identify therapies through an abnormal gait pattern recognition. On the other side, we supported Humanizing Technologies GmbH (Vienna, Austria) in building a framework which enables the humanoid robot Pepper to act as in-house companion. A Cloud robotics AI solution provides conversation-oriented services to both keep going an open topic conversational agent and monitor run-time dialogs in terms of depression indicators. These studies were developed more on identifying technical critical issues, where however we can highlight good results in terms of available methodologies and their performance. On the other hand, the collaboration between ICT and health/social care professionals is still work in progress. Bridging this gap could potentially becoming disruptive, as the way we build applications and systems today affects the direction in which our societies will further develop.

La tecnologia ha un ruolo pervasivo nei settori health- e social-care quando viene definita la cura dei pazienti. Gli stockholders investono sempre più risorse nell'innovazione digitale, spingendo per l'adozione di nuovi paradigmi come la robotica, la quale sta avendo un impatto crescente sull'assistenza sanitaria e sociale attraverso la fornitura di servizi a supporto delle decisioni mediche. Inoltre, i robot guadagnano un impareggiabile vantaggio quando operano con la sussistenza dell'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA). Pertanto, la chiave di volta per sfruttare appieno le applicazioni di IA ai fini robotici è operare con i dati medici. Tuttavia, anche se il settore è inondato dai dati, questi non sono in genere organizzati bene e forniti in tempo. In questa tesi, affrontiamo problemi di health- e social-care di due casi di studio. L'IRCCS Centro Neurolesi '”Bonino Pulejo” (Messina, Italia) ha ricevuto da noi il supporto nella costruzione di un workflow Cloud di tipo clinico per la raccolta, l'organizzazione e l'integrazione di dati sanitari provenienti da apparecchiature robotiche. In seguito, abbiamo usato i dati provenienti dal dispositivo Lokomat per un’analisi esplorativa, con lo scopo di identificare le terapie idonee al riconoscimento del cammino. Inoltre, abbiamo supportato Humanizing Technologies GmbH (Vienna, Austria) nella costruzione di un framework che consenta al robot umanoide Pepper di agire come supporto a casa. Attraverso una soluzione di Cloud Computing per l’IA nella robotica, abbiamo creato servizi orientati alla conversazione, al fine di monitorare i dialoghi in tempo reale in termini di indicatori di depressione. Attraverso questi studi abbiamo analizzato le criticità tecniche dei settori, evidenziando comunque buoni risultati in termini di metodologie disponibili e delle loro prestazioni. D'altro canto, la collaborazione tra gli operatori del settore ICT e i professionisti della sanità è ancora complicata. Colmare il divario di comunicazione potrebbe potenzialmente risultare distruttivo, poiché il modo in cui costruiamo applicazioni e sistemi oggi influenza la direzione in cui le nostre società si svilupperanno ulteriormente.

The effects of robotics in health and social care: cloud robotics al for medical insights / Carnevale, Lorenzo. - (2020 May 13).

The effects of robotics in health and social care: cloud robotics al for medical insights

CARNEVALE, Lorenzo
2020-05-13

Abstract

Health and social care are two industrial sectors were technologies have always been pervasive in addressing the patients care of tomorrow. Indeed, stockholders in both sectors are increasingly investing resources in digital innovation, pushing for the adoption of disruptive paradigms, such as robotics, which is having a growing impact in health and social care through the provision of services for supporting physicians in making decisions. Moreover, unparalleled insights come out from robots when they operate with Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, keystone for taking full advantage from robotic AI applications is exploiting medical data. However, even if the industries are awash in them, data are typically not organized well and provided in time. In this thesis, we face on health and social care problems of two industrial use cases. On one side, the IRCCS Centro Neurolesi ''Bonino Pulejo`` (Messina, Italy) received from us support in building a clinical Cloud workflow for collecting, organizing and integrating health care data from gait training robotics equipment, and therefore turning them into an exploratory analysis with the purpose to identify therapies through an abnormal gait pattern recognition. On the other side, we supported Humanizing Technologies GmbH (Vienna, Austria) in building a framework which enables the humanoid robot Pepper to act as in-house companion. A Cloud robotics AI solution provides conversation-oriented services to both keep going an open topic conversational agent and monitor run-time dialogs in terms of depression indicators. These studies were developed more on identifying technical critical issues, where however we can highlight good results in terms of available methodologies and their performance. On the other hand, the collaboration between ICT and health/social care professionals is still work in progress. Bridging this gap could potentially becoming disruptive, as the way we build applications and systems today affects the direction in which our societies will further develop.
13-mag-2020
Settore ING-INF/05 - SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI
ARENA, Felice
Doctoral Thesis
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