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CO-ADAPT: Adaptive Environments and Conversational Agent Based approaches for Healthy Ageing and Work Ability

Project description

Supporting ageing citizens in an increasingly digitalised world

Digitalisation transforms the world and gives rise to countless opportunities. But for older citizens still in the workforce, navigating digitalised services can be risky. The EU-funded CO-ADAPT project proposes a framework that delivers two-way adaptation principles in support of the ageing workforce elderly. The project supports older citizens to adapt to changed conditions through a personalised AI conversational agent that relies on language and physiological analytics. The project also defines three kinds of intelligent adaptations in work systems with various levels of technology sophistication relevant to age difficulties in the workspace. CO-ADAPT will further focus on evaluation of the economic benefits through a comparative test of the proposed human adaptation support deployed in the north and south of Europe.

Objective

Active ageing along with work ability frameworks contributed mostly to inform policies and development of research methods rather than concrete solutions such as technologies and applications. Ageing citizen face particular difficulties in remaining active if having reduced capabilities due to age-related conditions and challenges posed by knowledge digitalization, the accessibility of digital channels, digital interfaces and digital socialization. CO-ADAPT proposes a framework that provides principles for a two-way adaptation in support of ageing citizens. 1) Human Adaptation Support: CO-ADAPT empowers ageing citizen to adapt to changed conditions through a personalised Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversational agent providing comprehensive change support based on language and physiological analytics. 2) Work Systems Adaptations: CO-ADAPT defines three types of smart adaptations in work systems with different level of technology sophistication to age thresholds in smart shift scheduling tools, to individual capabilities considering cognitive workload in assembly stations, adaptations to work tasks in contextually recommending people, documents and applications for cognitive augmentation. The evaluation approach is focussed on quantifying economical benefits in terms of improved work ability. It includes a comparative trial of the Human Adaptation Support, the personalised conversational agent application, in north and south Europe for investigating cultural applicability. The Work Systems Adaptations are trialled in real environments with an extensive pilot for the smart shift scheduling tools in Finland (N=20 000), and more focused trials with sophisticated prototypes for the assembly station adaptations in Italy and contextual entity recommender in Finland. The consortium includes comprehensively stakeholders and disciplines geared for a participatory design approach, compliance with ethical and data directives, and effective exploitation of results.

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(opens in new window) H2020-SC1-DTH-2018-2020

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Coordinator

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
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€ 652 875,00
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FABIANINKATU 33
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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