According to the world health organization, cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of death worldwide. Cardiac rehabilitation programmes are dedicated to approach this problem and reduce mortality rates due to the presence of a second event. However, the adherence and motivation of patients to assist to these programmes is not the expected. Therefore, this paper presents the incorporation of a SAR system into a cardiac rehabilitation scenario, where a social robot had the role of a training assistant during the therapy, aiming to increase motivation and encourage people to continue with the therapy. This study carried out a longitudinal experimental setup with a total of 209 sessions observed for a group of 6 patients in a period between 3 and 6 months. Results show that patients felt more encouraged to perform physical activity and continue with the rehabilitation when they perceived that monitored and supervised by the system, demonstrating that it can be implemented as a reliable tool that would potentially leverage tasks carried out by health professionals.

根据世界卫生组织的报告，心血管疾病是全世界死亡的主要原因。心脏康复计划致力于解决这个问题并降低由于第二事件而导致的死亡率。但是，患者参与这些计划的依从性和积极性并不是预期的。因此，本文介绍了将SAR系统并入心脏康复场景的过程，其中社交机器人在治疗过程中担当培训助手的角色，旨在增加动力并鼓励人们继续治疗。这项研究进行了一个纵向实验设置，在3到6个月的时间里，总共观察到209个疗程，共6位患者。