Quantifying interaction with robotic toys in pre-term and full-term infants

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Pediatrics

Daniel Bogen¹  Konrad Kording¹  Jeong Inn Park²  Frances S. Shofer³  Laura A. Prosser⁴  Samuel R. Pierce⁵  Kathleen A. Nilan⁶  Huayan Zhang⁷  Collin Kather⁸  Michelle J. Johnson⁹ 

[1] Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Physical Therapy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Division of Neonatology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Division of Neonatology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Neonatology, Guangzhou Women’s and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, China;Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;

关键词: infant development;    preterm birth;    vision;    movement;    rehabilitation robotics;    toy;    neurodevelopment;    neurorehabilitation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fped.2023.1153841

 received in 2023-01-30, accepted in 2023-08-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Infants born pre-term are at an increased risk for developmental, behavioral, and motor delay and subsequent disability. When these problems are detected early, clinical intervention can be effective at improving functional outcomes. Current methods of early clinical assessment are resource intensive, require extensive training, and do not always capture infants’ behavior in natural play environments. We developed the Play and Neuro Development Assessment (PANDA) Gym, an affordable, mechatronic, sensor-based play environment that can be used outside clinical settings to capture infant visual and motor behavior. Using a set of classification codes developed from the literature, we analyzed videos from 24 pre-term and full-term infants as they played with each of three robotic toys designed to elicit different types of interactions—a lion, an orangutan, and an elephant. We manually coded for frequency and duration of toy interactions such as kicking, grasping, touching, and gazing. Pre-term infants gazed at the toys with similar frequency as full-term infants, but infants born full-term physically engaged more frequently and for longer durations with the robotic toys than infants born pre-term. While we showed we could detect differences between full-term and pre-term infants, further work is needed to determine whether differences seen were primarily due to age, developmental delays, or a combination.

【 授权许可】

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© 2023 Kather, Shofer, Park, Bogen, Pierce, Kording, Nilan, Zhang, Prosser and Johnson.