Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist Disabled People in Daily Activities


Description

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.

Project website

https://www.neuroelectrics.com/use-case/enobio-aide-adaptive-multimodal-interfaces-to-assist-disabled-people-in-daily-activities/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Completed

Start date

February 2015

End date

January 2018


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • People with disabilities

Replicability

In other regions if desired


WSIS values promotion

Develops a novel modular and adaptive multimodal human-machine interface to allow that moderately and severely impaired people interact with intelligent devices to perform daily activities and to fully participate in society in the areas of communication, home automation, wearable robots for assisting in activities of daily living and entertainment. Promotes accessibility to the disabled


Entity name

Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist Disabled People in Daily Activities (AIDE)

Entity country—type

Spain Academia

Entity website

https://www.neuroelectrics.com/use-case/enobio-aide-adaptive-multimodal-interfaces-to-assist-disabled-people-in-daily-activities/

Partners

European Commission