Developing Robot-Based Cognitive and Motor Tasks for People Living with Both HIV and Stroke* This work was made possible through core services and support from the University of of Pennsylvania's Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH-funded program (P30

摘要

There are currently no effective tools to assess the range of physical, cognitive, and social issues seen in the emerging HIV-stroke population. In turn, this poses a barrier to developing effective neurorehabilitation strategies to deal with the unique challenges of living with both HIV and stroke. Rehabilitation robotics provide a potential approach to address this problem. In this study, we develop a cognitive-motor task on the Haptic Theradrive, a single degree-of-freedom robot designed for upper limb rehabilitation. We collect preliminary data on healthy and HIV-stroke subjects from both upper limbs. We identify metrics that could potentially be useful in assessing motor and cognitive impairment across the HIV-stroke disability spectrum.