Dear Alberto,

Following our conversation yesterday, I can confirm our interest in participating in the proposal. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Regards

Carlos Gutiérrez Castañeda


El 07/02/2014, a las 19:02, Alberto Borghese < alberto.borghese@unimi.it> escribió:

Dear Carlos Castaneda,

with the email I an exploring your interest to join the RoboHome consortium in a project aimed to assisted living.

The project builds on the GIRAFFplus project (of which you are partner) and on our REWIRE ( http://www.rewire-project.eu) project that will close at the end of this year and on the projects FITREHAB and EXCITE recently terminated.

Here is a brief ABSTRACT of the proposal.
ROBOHOME2.0 develops, integrates and field tests an innovative robot based assisting platform, which assists the elders at home actively promoting a healthy lifestyle. The main idea is to assemble off the shelf components in a robust a reliable way to get a low-cost system that can be deployed massively at home. The platform is constituted of three hierarchical level: a community of stakeholders that provides a tight connection between elders, formal and informal caregivers and promote socialization; an intelligent virtual caregiver that proposes activities according to elder idiosyncrasies and needs, adapting them on daily basis on her status and a service level, centered on a Giraff service robot that works as an active companion. The system is complemented by a set of sensors that capture possible risks and lifestyle information and provide a controlled evaluation of physical/cognitive capability through gesture sequences signature. Giraff cooperates with a smart activity center to provide adapted personalized activities to the elders. Most adequate physical, cognitive and social activities will be identified and the proper mix of activities for each elder on a daily basis will be suggested to provide maximum effectiveness. Activities will be implemented resorting as much as possible to the gamification paradigm to provide maximum adherence and motivation to the elders in doing them. A fully body-free approach is pursued to provide maximum adherence to the system. A pilot is designed evaluation of effectiveness and suitability of ROBOHOME2.0, and to provide a continuous active evaluation and refinement of technical specifications from project start. This will allow providing maximum effectiveness and compliance of ROBOHOME2.0.

Here is the list of participants
1.                  ITA UMIL University of Milano, (A. Borghese, Dept. Computer Science - Coordination + Exergames for physical and cognitive activity, and for education - gamification)
2.                  SWE OREBRO University (A. Loufti – Intelligent virtual caregiver, 2..0 part)
3.                  SWE GIRAFF Giraff Technology Ltd (Robot + Integration)
4.                  GB PLY Plymouth University (A. Cangelosi – Human Robot Interface) 5.                  ITA SXT srl (L. Piccini – Monitoring sensors)
6.                  ITA PCL Policlinco Hospital (D. Mari, geriatric Department, elder psychology and clinics, GP network).
7.                  ITA POLIMI Politecnico of Milano (A. Pedrocchi, Dept. Bioengineering, Monitoring functions).
8.                  SWE MUNIC, Orebro municipality (Tests in real environments, sociological aspects)
9.                  ESP BDIGITAL (F. Miralles – Virtual Community development).
10.              TBD – Evaluation and diffusion of the results.
11.              TBD - Service provider. Specifications definition, sociological aspects, business model.

 The role of SAS could be that of evaluation of the system and diffusion of the results. We are also looking for a service provider. We are discussing with the Korean group, but we are open to suggestions.

Here are some data of the call:
Call: PHC 19 – 2014: Advancing active and healthy ageing wwith ICT: Service robotics within assisted living environments
Tipo di progetto: Research & Innovation
Funding scheme: 100% of costs + 25% of overheads (copre interamente i costi + 25% di spese forfettarie).
Deadline: 15.04.2014.
Inizio progetto: 1.November.2014 (data più probabile)
Termine progetto: 30.Aprile.2018.
Finanziamento complessivo: <= 4 MEuro.

If you are interested, I will be happy to give some more details to you thorugh Skype.

Best regards

Alberto Borghese


Prof. N. Alberto Borghese
Department of Computer Science - University of Milano
Via Comelico, 39 - 20135 Milano, Italy
Telephone: +39-02-503.16325  Fax: +39-02-503.16373.
Email: alberto.borghese@unimi.it     Skype: borgheseA    

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Prof. N. Alberto Borghese
Department of Computer Science - University of Milano
Via Comelico, 39 - 20135 Milano, Italy
Telephone: +39-02-503.16325  Fax: +39-02-503.16373.
Email: alberto.borghese@unimi.it    Skype: borgheseA    

Laboratory of Applied Intelligent Systems (AIS Lab)
Via Celoria  20, Edificio  CTU-3,  http://ais-lab.di.unimi.it/
Telephone: +39.02-503.14011    Fax: +39-02-503.14012.