dear Partners,

please find here a new abstract, edited according to your suggestions and inputs. Feel free to modify it.

I will try to send you a much revised version of the scientific part before Friday (Monday at the latest)

Best

Alberto


Abstract
ROBOHOME2.0 develops, integrates and field tests an innovative robot based system, which assists and monitors the elders at home actively promoting a healthy lifestyle. The system consists in three hierarchical levels: 1) Core of the system is an intelligent virtual caregiver embodied into a service robot, that recommends and personalizes activities on daily basis, to improve lifestyle adherence based on state-of-the art Artificial Intelligence. It also helps the elder in critical everyday tasks and in therapy adherence. 2) The virtual caregiver collaborates strictly with a transparent configurable distributed monitoring sub-system that provides quantitative information on early physical / cognitive decline and social attitude. It collaborates also with an activity center that recommends and guides the elder in activities, tailored to the elder’s idiosyncrasies and needs. Activities will be implemented resorting as much as possible to the gamification paradigm to stimulate the maximum adherence and motivation. Further a network sub-system that controls the hazards and status of the home and supports communication and tracking of the elder’s activity. 3) The higher level is constituted of a community of the users that will receive from the virtual caregiver important information for their specific role.
The main idea is to assemble off the shelf components in a robust and reliable way to get a low-cost system that can be deployed massively at home and that does not required that the elder wears any specific device. A fully modular approach will be followed so that the entire platform can be tailored on the single user’s needs. Most wide-spread software and hardware standards will be chosen, to assure the maximum interoperability so to make the system adaptable to the utmost novel sensors and components.
Full configurability, personalization and automatic adaptation to elder needs and behavior will be used for all the components and for the same interfaces, with the aim of maximizing the compliance of the elder, even when computer illeterate.
A pilot is designed to evaluate the effectiveness and suitability Robohome2.0, to derive a robust business plan and to obtain a continuous active evaluation and refinement of the technical specifications since the beginning of the project.



Title of Proposal Robohome2.0

List of participants
1.        ITA UMIL – Coordination + Games for physical and cognitive activity and for education (gamification)
2.        SWE OREBRO University – Intelligence (2.0 part)
3.        SWE GIRAFF Giraff Technology – Robot + Integration
4.        GB PLY Plymouth – HRI, behavior analysis (in collaboration mainly with PCL, SAS and MUN)
5.        ITA SXT srl – sensors
6.        ITA PCL Fondazione IRCCS Cŕ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Geriatric Unit, Elder psychology and clinics, GP network. Milano, Italy
7.        ITA POLIMI Politecnico Sensors data interpretation (cellular phone data processing?). Design of instrumented objects for controlled monitoring.
8.        SWE MUNIC, Orebro municipality. Tests in real environments, sociological aspects?
9.        ESP BDIGITAL Community development.
10.    ESP – SAS, Evaluation and diffusion of the results. Pilot.
11.    FRA - Korian group. Service provider.

 



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)
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