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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incremental Timeline-Based Planning for Efficient Plan Execution and Adaptation
The increasing deployment, in real environments, of intelligent and distributed systems like robotic platforms, wearable sensors and AI-based devices, requires robust solutions that allow planned activities to...
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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Telepresence Robots with AI: Combining Services to Personalize and React
Mobile Telepresence Robots represent a class of robotic platforms, characterized by a video conferencing system mounted on a mobile robotic base, which allows a pilot user to move around in the robot’s environ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tailoring a Forward Looking Vocal Assistant to Older Adults
Human-machine speech and interaction is becoming increasingly important. In particular, one of the aspects that is gaining attention concerns the possibility to interact in a natural way and, more specifically...
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Toward intelligent continuous assistance
Technology supported assistance is a research area dedicated to support both older adults and, at some level, their caregivers in a variety of situations and contexts. A number of projects doing detailed evalu...
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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
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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A Holistic Approach to Behavior Adaptation for Socially Assistive Robots
Socially assistive robotics aims at providing users with continuous support and personalized assistance, through appropriate social interactions. The design of robots capable of supporting people in heterogene...
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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
Will Robin Ever Help “Nonna Lea” Using Artificial Intelligence?
A new generation of Intelligent Robots are entering our working and living environments, care of human-level tasks. Such robotic systems are becoming more and more important also in healthcare assistance for ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Giraff Meets KOaLa to Better Reason on Sensor Networks
Recent technological in Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems are fostering the diffusion of smart environments relying on sensor . Indeed, large and heterogeneous amount of data can provided by s...
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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
A Semantic Representation of Sensor Data to Promote Proactivity in Home Assistive Robotics
IoT technology integrated in smart home environments produces a huge and heterogeneous amount of data that can be used to characterize events that occur inside an environment as well as activities that a perso...
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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...