THE PROJECT
About Never Home Alone (NHoA)
Vision of NHoA
The general objective of NHoA is the co-design of a socially intelligent assistive robot as the key to the robustness, adaptability, patient acceptance and engagement.
The NHoA robot shall be an embodied assistive actor that sense the social and emotional environment and proactively intervene to build an affective relationship with the user.
Loneliness is a direct consequence of the demographic shift and negatively affects the well-being and mental health of the elderly, leading to an increasing incidence of depression and social exclusion. Inspired by the scientific experience of caregivers, we aim to develop robots that mitigate loneliness by encouraging the contact within a related network, emulating the group therapies.
- Co-design of assistive robot
- Mitigation of loneliness
- Artificial intelligence
- Affective relationships with the user
Objectives
The project will conceptualize and demonstrate a connected Social Robot that provides some of the following associated services to support the elder at home in synergy with the caregivers:
Prevention of loneliness and isolation
Remote health monitoring and cognitive and physical stimulation to maintain and improve healthy lifestyle habits
Robot assistance to improve well-being and domestic comfort
main goals of the project
NHoA will also address some key scientific research objective in order to develop an affective interaction with the elder.
