Project description
ICT and Ageing
CompanionAble adresses the issues of social inclusion and homecare of persons suffering from chronic cognitive disabilities prevalent among the elderly, a rapidly increasing population group. Those people need support of carers and are at risk of social exclusion, yet this problem not well addressed by ICT technology, but would lead to a social and economical pressure for staying at home as long as possible.
The main unique selling point of the CompanionAble project lies in the synergetic combination of the strengths of a mobile robotic companion with the advantages of a stationary smart home, since neither of those approaches alone can accomplish the demanding tasks to be solved. Positive effects of both individual solutions shall be combined to demonstrate how the synergies between a stationary smart home solution and an embodied mobile robot companion can make the care and the care person's interaction with her assistive system significantly better.
Starting with a profound requirements engineering for ICT-supported care and therapy management for the care persons, basic technologies for multimodal user observation and human-machine interaction will provide the fundamentals for the development of a stationary smart home assistive system and a mobile robot assistant, building the cornerstones of the overall system integrating the promising solutions of both parts. Substantial support comes from the research activities focusing on an architectural framework, allowing such a complex care scenario solution be achievable. After the realization of the respective scenarios, long lasting field experiments will be carried out to evaluate and test the system, and both scenarios can be evaluated to show their strength and weaknesses. This will initiate the development of an overall, integrated care scenario (smart home with embedded robot companion).
The realization of this integrated care concept is to be seen as the in-principal vision of CompanionAble.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems home automation
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FP7-ICT-2007-1
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RG6 6AH Reading
United Kingdom
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1210 Wien
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1230 WIEN
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1110 WIEN
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8830 GITS
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98693 Ilmenau
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98693 Ilmenau
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28010 MADRID
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15001 La Coruna
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20018 DONOSTIA SAN SEBASTIAN
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48160 DERIO BIZKAIA
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48170 ZAMUDIO
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75382 PARIS CEDEX 08
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91120 Palaiseau
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87000 LIMOGES
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77210 AVON
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75012 Paris
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91025 Evry
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7559 SC Hengelo Ov
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3360 AG Sliedrecht
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5617 BC Eindhoven
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