memeo29-practice

Memo29-Practice One of the problems that individuals with schizophrenia have is their social isolation. The cause of their social isolation is the abnormalities in their behavior and social communication since their hallucination prevent them to make real and effective communication with real people. Most of schizophrenic patients are suffering emotional support and are unable to have any emotional relationships with the opposite gender. The lack of emotional and social support is worsening the symptoms of the disease so psychiatrics have been looking for ways to strengthen the social network of schizophrenic patients by giving consultation to their families and friends. But most of the time, difficulties in coping with schizophrenic patients have made families and relatives reluctant to have relationships with these patients so most of these patients are abandoned by families and social members of their communities. One of the practices which I will use in the project is designing an anthropomorphic robot with the opposite gender of the patients whom I am going to study. In this practice, I will use, for example a female robot for a male schizophrenic patient to start face to face communications with the patient. In this emotional and communicative practice, we improve the social processes and abilities that a schizophrenic patient needs to have a successful relationship with the opposite gender. In this practice a robot with the opposite gender of the patient makes a face to face communication with him/her while pays attention the regulations needed for a successful relationship with schizophrenic patients such as avoiding direct eye contact, calling him/her directly and etc. The goal pf this pratice is to help them reduce their poor functioning in self –care and social communications. In this communication practice, robot will show reaction commensurate to the communication abnormalities of the patients for example based on the range and intensity of emotional expression including facial expression voice tone, eye contact and interpretation of body language. So this communication practice includes the robots face to face communication for at least 6 month with a schizophrenic patient considering the social and communication abnormalities of the patients.