Project Overview
The AIDE concept goes beyond the current state of the art in using a novel modular multimodal perception system to customize an adaptive multimodal interface towards disabled people needs. The multimodal interface will analyse and extract relevant information from the identification of residual abilities, behaviours, emotional state and intentions of the user, from analysis of the environment and from context factors. Finally, the humanEmachine cooperative system will be designed in accordance with specific user needs. A series of applications for the AIDE system have been identified across several domains in which disabled people could greatly benefit:
- Communication: The main objective is to improve the communication of severely disabled people for social autonomy. The user will be assisted in communicating with her/his relatives and friends. Communication will be provided by using standard Internet services, such as email, Skype and whatsapp and standard social networks (i.e., Facebook and Twitter). The developed system will provide support for web browsing as well.
- Home Automation: The goal is to allow severely disabled people to interact with the devices present at their smart home environments. In short, the user will be supported by AIDE multimodal interaction system in daily activities, such as turning lights, radio and television off and on, answering or initiating telephone calls, lock or unlock a door, closing or opening drapes, changing environmental settings and in medical emergency situations.
- Wearable robots for assisting in ADL: adaptively and dynamically modify the level of assistance provided by the intelligent robotic exoskeleton in accordance with specific user needs.
- Entertainment: Severely impaired people have reported that participation in normal entertainment activities, like playing a computer game or watching a movie, as an important need. Thus, a main objective is to support the user in playing computer games, in expressing his/her feelings, in playing music and/or engaging in painting and so on.
16 September 2016