ALIAS - AdaptabLe AmbIent Living ASsistent
Teilprojekt SENSIBEL: HäuSlichE Navigation im SozIalen Kontext Betreuungsbedürftiger BEwohner im aLtersgerechten Umfeld
Teilprojekt POLITE: AdaPtiOn von Navigationsstrategien mobiler Roboter im häusLIchen Umfeld bezüglich alTErsgerechter Nutzermotivation
- Duration: 01.07.2010 - 30.06.2013
- Funding:
EU - Europäische Union
BMBF - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
TMBWK - Freistaat Thüringen - Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur - Project partner:
Technische Universität München
TU Ilmenau, FG Neuroinformatik und Kognitive Robotik
MetraLabs GmbH
Cognesys GmbH
Eurecom
G-tec medical engineering GmbH
Fraunhofer IDMT
pme Familien Service GmbH
Youse GmbH - Project coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Wallhoff, TU München
- Project homepage: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/alias/

The ALIAS project aims at developing a mobile robot system that interacts with elderly, alone-living users providing assistance in daily life and promoting social inclusion by creating connections to other people and events in the wider world. The function of ALIAS is not to replace human-to-human contacts, but rather, to keep the user linked to the wide society.
This way ALIAS will try to reduce loneliness and improve the users' quality of life. For maintaining memory and reminding capabilities of the elderly, the robot is to individually motivate its users to periodically carry out cognitive training exercises.
Partner Ilmenau University of Technology will contribute to the ALIAS project by developing new approaches to a socially acceptable navigation behavior allowing the assistive robot to move courteously and politely in the home environment in order to reduce resentments and increase the users' acceptance to autonomous mobile robots.

