Heterogeneous Robot-Assisted Services in Isolation Wards: A System Development and Usability Study
Youngsun Kwon, Soyeon Shin, Kyonmo Yang, Seongah Park, Soomin Shin, Hwawoo Jeon, Kijung Kim, Guhnoo Yun
Abstract
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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{iros2023_heterogeneousrob,
title = {Heterogeneous Robot-Assisted Services in Isolation Wards: A System Development and Usability Study},
author = {Youngsun Kwon and Soyeon Shin and Kyonmo Yang and Seongah Park and Soomin Shin and Hwawoo Jeon and Kijung Kim and Guhnoo Yun and Sangyong Park and Jeewon Byun and Sang Hoon Kang and Kyoung-Ho Song and Doik Kim and Dong Hwan Kim and Kapho Seo and Sonya S. Kwak and Yoonseob Lim},
booktitle = {IROS 2023},
year = {2023}
}