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Agile Co-Creation of Robots for Ageing

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Objective

The mission of ACCRA is to enable the development of advanced ICT Robotics based solutions for extending active and healthy ageing in daily life by defining, developing and demonstrating an agile co-creation development process. To this end, a four-step methodology (need study, co-creation, experimentation, sustainability analysis) will be defined and applied in three applications (support for walking, housework, conversation rehabilitation) and assessed in France, Italy, Netherlands and Japan. The three applications will be based on a FIWARE platform integrating a number of enablers including features of universAAL and supporting two robotics solutions, Astro (Robot) and Buddy (Robot companion). The MAST impact assessment framework will be used integrating the following dimensions: user perceptions, user outcomes, ELSI, economic aspects, technical aspects, organisational aspects.
ACCRA is a joint European-Japanese initiative including a multidisciplinary team of 6 European partners and 3 Japanese partners. The project has a three-year duration. It is structured to allow for balanced contribution and efficient synergistic collaboration between Europe and Japan

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.3.1.4. - Active ageing and self-management of health

Topic(s)

SC1-PM-14-2016 - EU-Japan cooperation on Novel ICT Robotics based solutions for active and healthy ageing at home or in care facilities

Call for proposal

H2020-SC1-2016-CNECT-EUJ

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

TRIALOG

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25 Rue Du General Foy
75008 Paris

France

Activity type

Other

EU Contribution

€ 685 406,25

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SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 378 281,25

ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 327 625

UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE

France

EU Contribution

€ 359 523,75

BLUE FROG ROBOTICS

France

EU Contribution

€ 148 125

FONDAZIONE CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 100 750

Project information

ACCRA

Grant agreement ID: 738251

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 December 2016
End date

30 November 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.1.4.

Overall budget:

€ 1 999 711,25
EU contribution

€ 1 999 711,25

Coordinated by:

TRIALOG

France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation of Robots for Ageing)

Reporting period: 2016-12-01 to 2018-05-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The mission of ACCRA is to enable the development of advanced ICT Robotics based solutions for
extending active and healthy ageing in daily life by defining, developing and demonstrating an agile
co-creation development process
The term agile has been used in the last 15 years in software development to promote adaptive
planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement. Agile
development encourages rapid and flexible response to change. As stated by Jim Highsmith2:
The Agile movement is not anti-methodology, in fact many of us want to restore credibility to the
word methodology. We want to restore a balance. We embrace modelling, but not in order to file
some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We embrace documentation, but not hundreds of
pages of never-maintained and rarely-used tomes. We plan, but recognize the limits of planning in a
turbulent environment.
The term co-creation was popularized in the last 15 years as well3. It refers to the joint creation of
value by the company and the customer; allowing the customer to co-construct the service
experience to suit their context, integrating the principles of dialogue (interaction with users),
access (allow customer to access data), risk (monitor risk and gaps between customer and firm) and
transparency (information barriers eliminated)
A number of challenges have to be addressed:

- Agile programming and co-creation imply important changes at development and at
organisational level

- Ageing applications necessitate a co-creation approach that is fully multidisciplinary, to ensure
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI). This is not only a co-creation between business and
customers, but co-creation between social science, legal, policy makers, engineers, users and
carers.

- Robotics solutions are based on complex ICT environments integrating sensor networks,
handling of big data in the cloud. The concept of flexible platform must be taken into account
to fully participate to the agile co-creation process. In other words, agile co-creation must also
somehow extend to the platform level, not only to the application level. Issues such as
interoperability must be taken into account.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

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Project information

ACCRA

Grant agreement ID: 738251

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 December 2016
End date

30 November 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.1.4.

Overall budget:

€ 1 999 711,25
EU contribution

€ 1 999 711,25

Coordinated by:

TRIALOG

Project information

ACCRA

Grant agreement ID: 738251

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 December 2016
End date

30 November 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.3.1.4.

Overall budget:

€ 1 999 711,25
EU contribution

€ 1 999 711,25

Coordinated by:

TRIALOG

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