ロボットを用いたリハビリテーションにおけるモチベーションの新たな評価法の提案

抄録

This study aims to alleviate the increasing burden on therapists caused by the aging society through the use of robotic rehabilitation. Motivation is an essential aspect of rehabilitation using such robots, yet few studies have investigated it. In this study, we propose a method for evaluating motivation during rehabilitation using electroencephalograms (EEGs), specifically by examining the power spectrum ratio of β/α and event-related potentials of P300. Our results by healthy students indicate that the β/α scores improved in almost all subjects during training compared to rest, and we successfully obtained P300 from EEG data. Thus, our proposed method may provide an effective means of evaluating motivation during rehabilitation using rehabilitation robots.