Periodic Reporting for period 2 - INSENSION (Personalized intelligent platform enabling interaction with digital services to individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities)
Período documentado: 2019-07-01 hasta 2021-10-31
Today, people with PIMD who often communicate on the pre-verbal level can interact with a very limited group of caregivers familiar with the highly individual characteristics of a given person with disability. Transition from being under the care of one person to another is therefore very difficult. By using the INSENSION system the person with PIMD gains a sort of prosthesis of communication enabling them to potentially engage into interacting with other people. Moreover, the system which is capable of correctly interpreting the need of its user with disability allows her/him to undertake certain action such as switching on the heating device when they feel cold completely on their own, without the need of other people’s intervention.
To construct such a platform the INSENSION project employs a range of state-of-the-art ICT technologies from the area of artificial intelligence, computer vision and distributed systems. The objective of the project is therefore advancing relevant technologies to enable them for the integration within the targeted solution.
The main results achieved in the first reporting period are:
- definition of the INSENSION assessment tool for the comprehensive assessment of interaction of people with PIMD;
- development of proof-of-concept software components capable of recognizing and interpreting the non-symbolic behaviors of people with PIMD;
- integration of a demonstration prototype acting as a mockup of the technical concept of the developed system.
It is expected that the technological solution designed and developed within the project will contribute to the implementation of disability policies and other EU and UN level strategies concerned with the inclusion of people with disabilities in the society, to the enhancement of the quality of life of people with PIMD and their caregivers, and to the increase of assistive technologies market.