Yu-kyong Choe
Papers
6
Total Citations
80
H-Index
5
About
Yu-kyong Choe is a pioneering researcher in rehabilitation robotics, specializing in the use of humanoid robots to deliver multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation. Her work bridges speech and physical therapies, demonstrating how robots can extend the virtual presence of therapists into patients' homes. Choe's major contributions include developing robot-mediated teletherapy systems that enable direct therapist-patient interaction through humanoid platforms, as well as adaptive therapy strategies learned from demonstration using machine learning techniques like Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Her most cited paper (29 citations) explores the integration of speech and physical rehabilitation delivered by a humanoid robot, while her follow-up study (6 citations) provides compelling evidence of sustained motor function improvement 28 weeks post-intervention. Choe's research addresses critical healthcare challenges—therapist shortages and the need for customized, accessible rehabilitation—by leveraging general-purpose robots for upper extremity therapy. Her work on extended virtual presence (18 citations) and learning therapy strategies from demonstration (8 citations) has laid important groundwork for personalized, home-based robotic rehabilitation, making her a key figure in advancing assistive robotics for stroke recovery.
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Top Papers
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- 2Towards extended virtual presence of the therapist in stroke rehabilitation18 citations · 2013
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- 5A follow-up on humanoid-mediated stroke physical rehabilitation6 citations · 2012
- 6Extended Virtual Presence of Therapists through Home Service Robots3 citations · 2015