LiFe-support

Abstract

The paper presents an environment, called LiFe-Support, for facilitating the caregiver staff at health service centers in getting live feedback of an emergency situation that may occur to an elderly person at home. The two main components of the system include an autonomous mobile robot, called ARTOS, for serving elderly people in their homes and a visual platform for the caregivers to control communication and navigation of the robot in case of an emergency situation. A preliminary evaluation of the LiFe-Support environment has been carried out and promising results indicate usefulness of the system.