Towards an Adaptive Robot for Sports and Rehabilitation Coaching
It addresses the problem of coaching gaps and low adherence in rehabilitation and sports, but is incremental as it focuses on early-stage requirements.
This paper explores using an adaptive robotic coach with reinforcement learning to increase motivation and adherence in rehabilitation and sports coaching, but presents only preliminary requirements gathering without concrete results.
The work presented in this paper aims to explore how, and to what extent, an adaptive robotic coach has the potential to provide extra motivation to adhere to long-term rehabilitation and help fill the coaching gap which occurs during repetitive solo practice in high performance sport. Adapting the behavior of a social robot to a specific user, using reinforcement learning (RL), could be a way of increasing adherence to an exercise routine in both domains. The requirements gathering phase is underway and is presented in this paper along with the rationale of using RL in this context.