arXiv:2506.11827cs.ROcs.HC2025-06

通过调节音量和音高,让机器人患者的声音更真实反映按压力度。

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients

  • 根据腹部按压力度生成对应疼痛声音,用音高和音量控制感知一致性。
  • 7680次测试显示,力度越大,感知疼痛越强,音高影响比音量更大。
  • 适合医学模拟器研发者与疼痛感知研究者参考。

误诊可能导致治疗延误和患者伤害。机器人患者模拟器为训练和评估临床医生应对罕见复杂病例提供了可控环境。本文研究了在机器人患者疼痛表达合成中听觉与触觉的一致性。系统根据腹部按压时的触觉刺激生成疼痛发声,触觉信号由腹部仿体捕捉,并通过内部按压-疼痛映射模型驱动音频输出。为评估按压力度与合成疼痛声音之间的感知一致性,我们进行了包含7680次试验、20名参与者的实验,参与者仅根据听觉反馈评定感知疼痛强度。分析了声学参数对感知一致性的影响,结果表明:振幅与音高显著影响感知一致性的达成,且不受疼痛声音类别影响;按压力度增加时,感知一致性评分上升,符合心理物理学标度效应。在测试的声学特征中,音高对感知一致性的影响强于振幅。研究证明,调节音高与振幅是实现听觉-触觉感知一致性的关键。该框架支持高保真机器人患者模拟器的开发,并为具身机器人系统中多维度疼痛表征的研究提供平台。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Misdiagnosis can result in delayed treatment and patient harm. Robotic patient simulators (robopatients) provide a controlled framework for training and evaluating clinicians in rare and complex cases. We investigate auditory tactile congruence in the synthesis of adaptive vocal pain expressions for robopatients. The system generates pain vocalizations in response to tactile stimuli applied during abdominal palpation. Haptic input is captured through an abdominal phantom and processed using an internal palpation-to-pain mapping model that drives acoustic output. To evaluate perceptual congruence between palpation force and synthesized pain expressions, we conducted a study comprising 7,680 trials with 20 participants. Participants rated perceived pain intensity based solely on auditory feedback. We analyzed the influence of acoustic parameters on agreement between applied force and perceived pain. Results indicate that amplitude and pitch significantly affect perceptual agreement, independent of pain sound category. Increased palpation force was associated with higher agreement ratings, consistent with psychophysical scaling effects. Among the tested acoustic features, pitch exerted a stronger influence than amplitude on perceived congruence. These findings demonstrate that modulation of pitch and amplitude is critical for achieving perceptually coherent auditory tactile mappings in robotic pain simulation. The proposed framework supports the development of high fidelity robotic patient simulators and provides a platform for studying multidimensional representations of pain in embodied robotic systems.

机器人模拟疼痛仿真多模态交互

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