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This work describes the ECHORD Experiment ASTROMOBILE, a project aimed to design, develop and test a system for favourable independent living, improved quality of life and efficiency of care for senior citizens in domestic environments. The system, composed of a mobile robotic platform (called ASTRO) and an Ambient Intelligent Infrastructure that actively cooperated between them and with the end-user, was designed and implemented with a user-centred design approach, involving different stakeholders. The system was designed to deliver services to users, like drug delivery, stand support, reminding, info-entertainment. The design took advantages of the integration of robotic platforms with smart environments, to provide to users higher quality and localization based services. Senior end-users were involved in the experimentation of the system in the DomoCasa Living Lab and feedbacks were gathered for the technology assessment. Particularly, this paper demonstrates the general feasibility of the ASTROMOBILE system and thanks to users feedbacks its acceptability and usability.
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Cavallo, F. et al. (2014). Improving Domiciliary Robotic Services by Integrating the ASTRO Robot in an AmI Infrastructure. In: Röhrbein, F., Veiga, G., Natale, C. (eds) Gearing up and accelerating cross‐fertilization between academic and industrial robotics research in Europe:. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 94. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02934-4_13
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