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Mental activity
support and
monitoring
Dedicated standalone
games, no monitoring
Companion robots with
emotions
Companion robots with
cognitive abilities.
Games and companion
robots with monitoring
and forward of data to
systems from care
provider organisations
Make data accessible to
cross organisational
care and disease
management systems
Challenges
sensors and systems for indoor localization and monitoring;
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ontology and user models - activity models for activity recognition and
monitoring and for cognitive support;
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ubiquitous audio-video-data communication;
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multi-channel stimulation;
ubiquitous/pervasive sensing and computing + pervasive communication =
Internet of Things;
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event streams processing and probabilistic reasoning;
cognitive assistive robots for enhanced ADL support in unstructured
environments
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reliable learning-based navigation in unknown environments;
autonomous manipulation of unknown objects;
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activity recognition;
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fully compliant physical interaction with user;
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natural language dialogue;
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non-verbal communication (emotions, gestures).
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2.4. Personal and home safety and security
Staying well and comfortable, and feeling safe and secure within a person's own home
is an important part of life and plays a central role especially in societies that have an
increasing proportion of older people. It is therefore essential to enable and extend
autonomous daily living in a person's own home also when that person reaches an
advanced age. As human beings we need a sense of satisfaction of personal security at
home and out-door. Technologies may offer an enhanced sense of security, prolonged
independence and an improved perceived quality of life for seniors. Informal care
givers experience less strain and an improved quality of service is expected from the
service provider. For society in general and those paying, a reduced bill for care should
result.
Special attention must be paid to the integration of solutions and components that
are already available on the market into a coherent and conclusive system which is easy
to use for those living at home. Further, innovative solutions for recognizing
emergencies in the home are needed. Here, a combination of monitoring vital
parameters of the person living at home, observation of the person's activity, as well as
supervising the conditions of domestic appliances lead to new paradigms of ambient
assistance. Combining this kind of data can improve personal safety. Sensors
positioned at electrical devices and at doors and windows may be integrated into an
easy-to-use house-control system which also provides improved personal safety and
