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Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support

Descrizione del progetto

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Robot sensibili alle esigenze dei cittadini anziani

La letteratura in materia di scienze infermieristiche approfondisce l’importanza della competenza culturale nell’assistenza agli anziani. Tuttavia, il campo della robotica trascura completamente la rilevanza di un comportamento culturalmente appropriato. Il progetto CARESSES, finanziato dall’UE, intende colmare questa lacuna sviluppando robot destinati all’assistenza che possiedano competenze culturali. Questi robot avranno la capacità di adattare autonomamente le proprie azioni e il proprio linguaggio per allinearsi alla cultura, ai costumi e alle convenzioni sociali delle persone che assistono. Questo progetto intende creare robot più in sintonia con le esigenze specifiche degli utenti, offrendo un sistema sicuro, affidabile e intuitivo per promuovere l’indipendenza e l’autonomia dei clienti anziani. Questa soluzione innovativa promette di migliorare la qualità della vita, di alleggerire il carico assistenziale e di aumentare l’efficienza e l’efficacia complessive.

Obiettivo

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.

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H2020-SC1-2016-2017

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H2020-SC1-2016-CNECT-EUJ

Meccanismo di finanziamento

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UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 548 875,00
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Via balbi 5
16126 Genova
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Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova
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Data della firma CE 21 Novembre 2016
Ultimo aggiornamento: 13 Settembre 2023

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