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Proposer

Marta Romeo

Title

Socially assistive robots - digitalising cognitive tests

Goal

Develop a robotic application for cognitive monitoring

Description

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) represent a promising technology to provide assistance outside of clinical and controlled environments. In particular, their deployment in the house of prospective users can provide effective opportunities for early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment, a condition of increasing impact in our ageing society, by means of digitalised cognitive tests. The aim of this project is to turn classical paper and pencil tests into SAR-based applications. The final outcome will be a ROS-based application that integrates a speech module, a graphical user interface and a dialogue manager.

Resources

Background

[1] Luperto, M., Romeo, M. et al. (2019). Evaluating the acceptability of assistive robots for early detection of mild cognitive impairment. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). [2] Lunardini, F., Luperto, M., et al. (2019). The movecare project: Home-based monitoring of frailty. In Proceedings of the IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI).

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Variable

Ethical Approval

Full

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Marta Romeo

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Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Master of Science in Human Robot Interaction
Master of Science in Robotics