ACCOMPANY

Acceptable robotiCs COMPanions for AgeiNg Years

 Coordinatore THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION 

 Organization address address: COLLEGE LANE
city: HATFIELD

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Farshid
Cognome: Amirabdollahian
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1707 286125
Fax: +44 1707 284303

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 4˙825˙535 €
 EC contributo 3˙653˙929 €
 Programma FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
 Code Call FP7-ICT-2011-7
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-10-01   -   2014-09-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

 Organization address address: COLLEGE LANE
city: HATFIELD

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Farshid
Cognome: Amirabdollahian
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1707 286125
Fax: +44 1707 284303

UK (HATFIELD) coordinator 0.00
2    CENTRE EXPERT EN TECHNOLOGIES ET SERVICES POUR LE MAINTIEN EN AUTONOMIE A DOMICILE DES PERSONNES AGEES

 Organization address address: RUE GUSTAVE EIFFEL
city: ROSIERE PRES TROYES

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: David
Cognome: Hewson
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 325 718 005
Fax: +33 325 718 456

FR (ROSIERE PRES TROYES) participant 0.00
3    FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V

 Organization address address: Hansastrasse
city: MUNCHEN

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Walter
Cognome: Krause
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 89 12057534
Fax: +49 89 12057534

DE (MUNCHEN) participant 0.00
4    STICHTING HOGESCHOOL ZUYD

 Organization address address: NIEUW EYCKHOLT
city: HEERLEN

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Gert Jan
Cognome: Gelderblom
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 45 4006528
Fax: +31 45 400 6069

NL (HEERLEN) participant 0.00
5    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

 Organization address address: Edgbaston
city: BIRMINGHAM

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: May
Cognome: Chung
Email: send email
Telefono: 441214000000

UK (BIRMINGHAM) participant 0.00
6    THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House
city: COVENTRY

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Peter
Cognome: Hedges
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 24 76524760

UK (COVENTRY) participant 0.00
7    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA

 Organization address address: VIA BANCHI DI SOTTO
city: SIENA

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Patrizia
Cognome: Marti
Email: send email
Telefono: 390577000000
Fax: 390577000000

IT (SIENA) participant 0.00
8    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE

 Organization address address: DRIENERLOLAAN
city: ENSCHEDE

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Benno J
Cognome: Pals
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 53 4893702

NL (ENSCHEDE) participant 0.00
9    UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

 Organization address address: SPUI
city: AMSTERDAM

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Vanessa
Cognome: Wolters
Email: send email
Telefono: 31205257876

NL (AMSTERDAM) participant 0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The proposed ACCOMPANY system will consist of a robotic companion as part of an intelligent environment, providing services to elderly users in a motivating and socially acceptable manner to facilitate independent living at home. The ACCOMPANY system will provide physical, cognitive and social assistance in everyday home tasks, and will contribute to the re-ablement of the user, i.e. assist the user in being able to carry out certain tasks on his/her own. Services to the user will be delivered through socially interactive, acceptable and empathic interaction, building on computational models of robot social cognition and interaction. The envisaged relationship of the user with the robot is that of a co-learner – robot and user providing mutual assistance for the user not to be dominated by the technology, but to be empowered, physically, cognitively and socially.

The project combines a multidisciplinary consortium to tackle the technological as well as human-centred and ethical challenges of the project. A state of the art service robot platform, Care-O-bot® 3 will be used to assess user requirements and user acceptance of the robot. Results from user studies will then be fed back to adapt the technology so that it better suits user demands and preferences. Throughout the project such formative feedback results in different iterations of the ACCOMPANY prototypes.

Three test sites in three different European countries (UK, the Netherlands, France), as well as a dedicated showcase, will ensure an extensive evaluation process considering cultural differences.

The ACCOMPANY system will be a novel technological solution TOWARDS facilitating independent living at home for elderly users. In addition, ACCOMPANY will specify and benchmark design and ethical guidelines for service robots for the elderly. The novel insights gained in the project will be made publicly available, thereby strengthening the European service robotics research and industry.The project combines a multidisciplinary consortium to tackle the technological as well as human-centred and ethical challenges of the project. A state of the art service robot platform, Care-O-bot® 3 will be used to assess user requirements and user acceptance of the robot. Results from user studies will then be fed back to adapt the technology so that it better suits user demands and preferences. Throughout the project such formative feedback results in different iterations of the ACCOMPANY prototypes.Three test sites in three different European countries (UK, the Netherlands, France), as well as a dedicated showcase, will ensure an extensive evaluation process considering cultural differences.

The ACCOMPANY system will be a novel technological solution to facilitating independent living at home for elderly users. In addition, ACCOMPANY will specify and benchmark design and ethical guidelines for service robots for the elderly. The novel insights gained in the project will be made publicly available,

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