Elderly’s preferences towards rehabilitation robot appearance using electroencephalogram signal

Abstract Rehabilitation robots are becoming an important means of assisted living for the elderly, and appearance rehabilitation directly affects willingness elderly to interact with robots. Much current research on robot preferences relies solely subjective evaluations, which relatively cheap, but do not reach deep into brain get accurate grasp how humans respond appearance. Using electroencephalogram signal questionnaire survey, we studied preference abstract figurative The experimental materials derived from pictures 10 in market. collected by BrainVision Recorder processed Analyzer, as well SPSS statistical analysis. Experiment shows that peak is higher fluctuation more intense 350 ms 600 central region right half parietal region. While prefrontal region, difference between obvious occipital Based results, it provides possibility objective evaluation designed features.