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Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support

Descripción del proyecto

Robots sensibles a las necesidades de las personas mayores

La literatura sobre enfermería profundiza en la importancia de la competencia cultural en la atención a las personas mayores. Sin embargo, el ámbito de la robótica pasa completamente por alto la importancia de un comportamiento culturalmente apropiado. El equipo del proyecto CARESSES, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende colmar esta laguna desarrollando robots asistenciales que posean competencia cultural. Dichos robots tendrán la capacidad de adaptar autónomamente sus acciones y su forma de hablar a la cultura, las costumbres y la etiqueta de las personas a las que ayudan. En este proyecto se pretende crear robots más adaptados a las necesidades específicas de los usuarios, que ofrezcan un sistema seguro, fiable e intuitivo para fomentar la independencia y autonomía de los clientes de edad avanzada. Gracias a esta innovadora solución se promete mejorar la calidad de vida, aliviar la carga de los cuidadores y aumentar la eficiencia y eficacia generales.

Objetivo

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.

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-SC1-2016-2017

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-SC1-2016-CNECT-EUJ

Régimen de financiación

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinador

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 548 875,00
Dirección
VIA BALBI 5
16126 Genova
Italia

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Región
Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 548 875,00

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