BME Research Seminar - Human-Machine Interaction for Mental Health Care
Biomedical Engineering Research SeminarHuman-Machine Interaction for Mental Health CareJenny Zhi Zheng, Assistant Professor, RIT Biomedical EngineeringAdvances in assistive technology have led to widespread deployment of interactive systems to help improve people’s health conditions. Current interactive technologies, such as robots and virtual reality, are mainly for physical health, while the high controllability, precision, and automation also provide great opportunities for mental health care. In this talk, I will first present my research about how to use human-machine interaction to improve the assessment and intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This talk will cover both human-robot interaction and human-computer interaction technologies that have led to success. I will introduce the design, development, and validation of intelligent systems targeting core deficits in ASD. It is important to note that the engineering cores in human-machine interaction is not limited to a certain disease. Therefore, I will also introduce how to generalize interaction technology to serve different populations. In particular, robot-mediated physical and cognitive exercise for older adults will be discussed. Finally, the challenges and opportunities in designing intelligent systems for and beyond mental health care will be discussed together with important future directions.
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