AASS Seminar - The MoveCare EU H2020 project

The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Amy Loutfi, Jennifer Renoux, Michael Sioutis, AASS, Orebro University.

Abstract

Following the success of GiraffPlus and Ecare@home, MoveCare is a 3 year funded project which integrates an existing robotic platform with a domotic system, smart objects, a virtual community and an activity center, to provide, through assistance, activities and transparent monitoring to the elder at home. The role of ORU in the project is to realize a closed-loop assistance system called a Virtual Caregiver (VC) that cooperates with caregivers and clinicians. The Virtual Caregiver analyzes heterogeneous data provided by the monitoring systems, using a mix of machine learning and automated reasoning techniques. It a) suggests physical, cognitive and social activities, adapting the level of difficulty to the current elder's status; b) provides assistance for lost objects, diet, and therapy adherence; c) provides caregivers with relevant information on the elder status, d) gives feedbacks and recommendations. This seminar will detail the aims, ambitions and background of the project with focus AASS' role.

Special Feature: The second part of the seminar will introduce Michael Sioutis, a new post-doc in MoveCare employed at AASS. In his thesis Michael made contributions towards efficiently solving the fundamental reasoning problems associated with qualitative spatio-temporal knowledge bases, namely, the satisfiability checking problem, the minimal labeling problem (also known as deductive closure), and the entailment problem. Further, Michael enriched the framework of spatio-temporal formalisms by generalizing certain results regarding LTL-based spatio-temporal logics and by studying the complexity of problems associated with temporal sequences of qualitative spatial relations.