Related Projects

COMPANIONS

is an interdisciplinary FP 6 research project which focuses on combining advanced technologies to create personal, persistent 'agents' or 'Companions'. Companions are a new paradigm for the way people deal with the Internet, as computational agents that are personalized and persistent, sensitive to the needs of, and relationship with, the single owner.

ITALK

The ITALK project aims to develop artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning.

HUMAINE

The HUMAINE Association is a professional, world-wide association for researchers in emotion-oriented/affective computing.

LIREC

LIREC (Living with Robots and Interactive Companions) aims to establish a multi-faceted theory of artificial long-term companions (including memory, emotions, cognition, communication, learning, etc.), embody this theory in robust and innovative technology and experimentally verify both the theory and technology in real social environments.

SEMAINE

The aim of the SEMAINE project is to build a Sensitive Artificial Listener – a multimodal dialogue system with the social interaction skills needed for a sustained conversation with a human user.

C4U - Companions for Users(f/m)

OFAI's C4U project aims at developing a better understanding of female attitudes and requirements regarding companion technology. This 2-years project is partially funded by the Austrian FFG under the programme Femtech-FTI and will start in September 2009. Its objectives and roadmap are closely coupled with SERA so that synergies in the results are expected.

CompanionAble

CompanionAble (FP7 IP, 2008-2011) will provide the synergy of Robotics and Ambient Intelligence technologies and their semantic integration to provide for a care-giver's assistive environment. This will support the cognitive stimulation and therapy management of the care-recipient. This is mediated by a robotic companion (mobile facilitation) working collaboratively with a smart home environment (stationary facilitation).

KSERA

KSERA (Knowledgeable Service Robots for Aging) is an FP7 ICT project, running from 2010 to 2013. The main aim is to develop a socially assistive robot that helps elderly people, especially those with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), with their daily activities, care needs and self-management of their disease.