Projektbeschreibung
Roboter, die auf die Bedürfnisse älterer Menschen eingehen
Die Pflegeliteratur befasst sich eingehend mit der Bedeutung der kulturellen Kompetenz in der Altenpflege. In der Robotik wird jedoch die Bedeutung von kulturell angemessenem Verhalten völlig außer Acht gelassen. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt CARESSES soll diese Lücke schließen, indem es Pflegeroboter entwickelt, die über kulturelle Kompetenz verfügen. Diese Roboter werden in der Lage sein, ihre Handlungen und ihre Sprache autonom an die Kultur, die Sitten und Umgangsformen der Menschen anzupassen, denen sie helfen. Ziel dieses Projekts ist die Entwicklung von Robotern, die besser auf die spezifischen Bedürfnisse der Benutzer abgestimmt sind und ein sicheres, zuverlässiges und intuitives System zur Förderung der Unabhängigkeit und Autonomie älterer Menschen bieten. Diese innovative Lösung verspricht die Verbesserung der Lebensqualität, die Verringerung der Belastung von Pflegekräften und die allgemeine Steigerung von Effizienz und Effektivität.
Ziel
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.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnursing
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung
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H2020-SC1-2016-CNECT-EUJ
Finanzierungsplan
RIA - Research and Innovation actionKoordinator
16126 Genova
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