Supporting interaction in the robocare intelligent assistive environment

Abstract

The ROBOCARE project is aimed at creating an instance of integrated environment with software and robotic agents to actively assist an elderly person at home. In particular the project has synthesized a proactive environment for continu-ous daily activity monitoring in which an autonomous robot acts as a main interactor with the person. This paper accounts for the combination of features that create interactive capa-bilities for personalized and mixed-initiative interaction with the assisted person. A project with an intelligent assistant The use of intelligent technology for supporting elderly peo-ple at home has been addressed in various research projects in the last years (Pollack et al. 2003; Pineau et al. 2003; Haigh et al. 2003; Pollack 2005).