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An integrated quality assurance and assessment framework for matchmaking seniors needs with AAL solutions
This article introduces the Integrated Quality assurance framework implemented in the Maestro project. This framework aims to support both seniors and their carers to select health related solutions to improve pe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Planning and Reacting in an Active Assisted Living Environment
Active Assisted Living (AAL) is a concept that aims to improve the quality of life and promote the independence of both older adults and people with disabilities through the use of technology and services. AAL...
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Open AccessA dichotomic approach to adaptive interaction for socially assistive robots
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) aims at designing robots capable of guaranteeing social interaction to human users in a variety of assistance scenarios that range, e.g., from giving reminders for medications...
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Open AccessA Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI
One of the main challenges of social robots concerns the ability to guarantee robust, contextualized and intelligent behavior capable of supporting continuous and personalized interaction with different users ...
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Open AccessSocial Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults
In the last years, social robots have become a trending topic. Indeed, robots which communicate with us and mimic human behavior patterns are fascinating. However, while there is a massive body of research on ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Transformer-Based Approach for Choosing Actions in Social Robotics
The growing deployment of social robots requires the ability to adapt to the dynamic changes occurring in the real environments. These reactive behaviors, however, are often incapable of reasoning and predicti...
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Co-design of a TV-based home support for early stage of dementia
This article describes the work done to create an innovative system to support people with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Mild Dementia. The basic idea of the system is to exploit an extremely simple and familia...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MAESTRO, an Integrated Quality Assurance Framework for Seniors
The current chapter introduces the Integrated Quality assurance framework implemented in MAESTRO’s project. This framework aims at improving seniors’ quality of life and well-being by the way of an ICT platfor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ICF-Based Classification to Bridge the Gap Between End-Users and AAL Solutions
MAESTRO (Sustainable Reference Framework evaluating equipment and services for seniors) is a web-based ICT multi modal platform providing a broad range of services and benefits in the domain of monitoring and ...
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Akzeptanz und Marktfähigkeit sozialer Roboter
Soziale Roboter, die mit uns kommunizieren und menschliche Verhaltensmuster imitieren, sind ein wichtiges Zukunftsthema. Während viele Arbeiten ihr Design und ihre Akzeptanz erforschen, gibt es bislang nur wen...
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Open AccessTV-based assistive integrated service to support European adults living with mild dementia or mild cognitive impairment (TV-AssistDem): study protocol for a multicentre randomized controlled trial
Mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia progressively compromise the ability of people to live independently and can have a negative impact on their quality of life. Within the current European Active and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The TV-AssistDem Project: A TV-Based Platform for Co** with Mild Cognitive Impairment
This paper describes work pursued within the TV-assistdem project, an AAL initiative, aim of which is develop a technological tool to remote support to patients affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Active Aging by Continuous Learning: A Training Environment for Cultural Visits
The “Città Educante” project aims at radically rethinking the learning environments through the application of the most advanced ICT technology. Among the different aspects of the project, the LECTurE module aims...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Do the Right Task! Supporting Volunteers Timetabling with Preferences Through the Sponsor Platform
Sponsor is an AAL project that aims at develo**, testing and implementing an ICT platform to facilitate the posting, browsing and exchange of key information between competence-offering seniors and search-based...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward Automated Courseware Production for the ExPLoRAA Learning Environment
This paper presents a newborn collaboration between heterogeneous AI competences. In particular, it describes current work on the integration of machine learning techniques for the automatic generation of cont...
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Article
Open AccessPersonality and Augmenting/Reducing (A/R) in auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) during emotional visual stimulation
An auditory augmenting/reducing ERP paradigm recorded for 5 intensity tones with emotional visual stimulation was used, for the first time, to test predictions derived from the revised Reinforcement Sensitivit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing the Interactive Services of a Telepresence Robot for AAL: Developments and a Psycho-physiological Assessment
This paper describes the work done on a telepresence robot named GIRAFF and part of a telecare AAL system derived from the GIRAFFPLUS project for supporting and monitoring elderly people at home. Specifically,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Tool for Managing Elderly Volunteering Activities in Small Organizations
This paper describes a pilot application developed by the authors within a project in the area of elders assistance. Specifically, the work addresses the problem of assigning scheduled activities to a set of v...
