Person Object interaction
We are surrounded by objects which drive and influence our behaviour. An effective interaction with our external world plays a key role in rehabilitation, a concept well known to behavioural sciences. The person-object interaction develops in an ecological environment where technology is fully transparent to the involved actors using smart objects.
Ab.Acus developed strong skills in the fields of wireless identification and sensing technologies, especially for rehabilitation application. Furthermore, Ab.Acus actively works within the human robot interaction research line giving its contribution in identifying the most suitable and innovative interfaces that can boost the integration of robotics in daily life.
In particular, the investigations regard usage of daily life objects as augmented reality tools, creation of smart home environment able to exploit the IoT paradigm at its best and the disruptive innovation about the usage of smell as interfaces. Especially the latter can radically change human-robot interaction of tomorrow bringing a totally new perspective on interaction with objects and machines. Our competencies in wireless identification and sensing technologies, video analysis and biomechanics, go hand in hand, yielding to a quantitative analysis of behavioural tasks. These competencies play a key role in neuropsychology, rehabilitation, and assistive technologies, making it possible to quantify the patient’s behaviours and improvements individually.
AGREE
The goal of AGREE is the development of a device for the rehabilitation and the daily assistance of the upper limb motion to empower the person with motor disabilities in daily living activities performance.
RETRAINER
The aim of the RETRAINER proposal is to tune and validate advanced, robot-based technologies to facilitate recovery of arm and hand function in stroke survivors and to verify extensively the use of the system by end-users.
REWIRE
The REWIRE project develops, integrates and field tests an innovative rehabilitation platform based on virtual reality. The platform allows patients, discharged by the hospital, to continue their intensive rehabilitation at home under remote monitoring by the hospital itself.
MUNDUS
MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand function. MUNDUS uses any residual control of the end-user, thus it is suitable for long term utilization in daily activities.
SMILING
The SMILING project has planned to diminish age related impairments by interfering with mobility disability and improving carry-over into real life situations. The new approach is intended to challenge the patient to solve new motor problems in real time by inducing variable environments that need active response and problem solving from the target population.
FITRehab
The FITREHAB project has integrated and field tested a new and innovative virtual reality based rehabilitation and training platform, which allow patients and medical discharged people to perform physical exercise at home under remote expert planning and monitoring.