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ACCRA Project: Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging

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Abstract

The mission of ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging) is to enable the development of advanced ICT Robotics based solutions for extending active and healthy aging in daily life by defining, developing and demonstrating an agile co-creation development process. ACCRA project consists of three robotic applications which aim to promote the independent living by means of personal mobility application, to support the daily life management thanks to housework application and to promote conversation rehabilitation tailored on personal attitude by means of dedicated software programme. Additionally, ACCRA project will be designed and developed on open source framework (i.e. ROS, FIWARE, universAAL and Rospex) to promote the interoperability among scientific community.

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  • Service robotics
  • Agile programming
  • Co-creation
  • Active aging

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the ACCRA Project, founded by the European Commission—Horizon 2020 Founding Programme (H2020-SCI-PM14-2016) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan under grant agreement No. 738251.

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  1. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera (PI), Italy

    Laura Fiorini, Grazia D’Onofrio, Raffaele Limosani, Paolo Dario & Filippo Cavallo

  2. Complex Unit of Geriatrics, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy

    Grazia D’Onofrio, Daniele Sancarlo & Antonio Greco

  3. ICT, Innovation and Research Unit, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy

    Francesco Giuliani

  4. Trialog, Paris, France

    Antonio Kung

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Fiorini, L. et al. (2019). ACCRA Project: Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging. In: Casiddu, N., Porfirione, C., Monteriù, A., Cavallo, F. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04672-9_9

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