Description du projet
Des robots sensibles aux besoins des personnes âgées
La documentation relative aux soins infirmiers traite en détail l’importance de la compétence culturelle dans les soins aux personnes âgées. Cependant, le domaine de la robotique néglige totalement l’importance d’un comportement culturellement approprié. Le projet CARESSES, financé par l’UE, entend combler cette lacune en mettant au point des robots de soins dotés de compétences culturelles. Ces robots auront la capacité d’adapter de manière autonome leurs actions et leur discours à la culture, aux usages ainsi qu’aux codes sociaux des personnes qu’ils assistent. Ce projet cherche à créer des robots mieux adaptés aux besoins spécifiques des utilisateurs en proposant un système sûr, fiable et intuitif, afin de promouvoir l’indépendance et l’autonomie des clients âgés. Cette solution innovante promet d’améliorer la qualité de vie, d’alléger la charge des personnes assurant les soins et d’accroître l’efficience et l’efficacité globales.
Objectif
The groundbreaking objective of CARESSES is to build culturally competent care robots, able to autonomously re-configure their way of acting and speaking, when offering a service, to match the culture, customs and etiquette of the person they are assisting. By designing robots that are more sensitive to the user’s needs, CARESSES’ innovative solution will offer elderly clients a safe, reliable and intuitive system to foster their independence and autonomy, with a greater impact on quality of life, a reduced caregiver burden, and an improved efficiency and efficacy.
The need for cultural competence has been deeply investigated in the Nursing literature. However, it has been totally neglected in Robotics. CARESSES stems from the consideration that cultural competence is crucial for care robots as it is for human caregivers. From the user’s perspective, a culturally appropriate behavior is key to improve acceptability; from the commercial perspective, it will open new avenues for marketing robots across different countries.
CARESSES will adopt the following approach. First, we will study how to represent cultural models, how to use these models in sensing, planning and acting, and how to acquire them. Second, we will consider three (physically identical) replicas of a commercial robot on the market and integrate cultural models into them, by making them culturally competent. Third, we will test the three robots, customized for three different cultures, in the EU (two cultural groups) and Japan (one cultural group), on a number of elderly volunteers and their informal caregivers. Evaluation will be conducted through quantitative and qualitative investigation.
To achieve its groundbreaking objective, CARESSES will involve a multidisciplinary team of EU and Japanese researchers with a background in Transcultural Nursing, AI, Robotics, Testing and evaluations of health-care technology, a worldwide leading company in Robotics and a network of Nursing care homes.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnursing
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
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16126 Genova
Italie