HomeTech

This project aims to develop new technology based products intended for populations with special needs (children with disabilities or the elderly). One of the project’s partners is the APPDA, IPPS dedicated to citizens in the autism spectrum, covering almost 1% of the population), who is rehabilitating a dwelling for this type of user and will be a partner in implementing the "intelligent automation" (with "warning" technologies in case of emergency and remote monitoring, developed by the ISA) and neuro. The house will be a test platform (focusing first on the citizen with autism), and the solutions developed will then be generalized to other populations such as elderly. This joint effort of engineers, neuroscientists and users in implementing the concept of "Assisted Living Facility," aims to generate a set of technological capabilities at competitive costs that this team will use to help people with cognitive problems of aging or neurodevelopment. Using a population of high functioning autism will help to overcome an initial limiting factor that is the fact that users with other diseases do not adhere easily to new technologies. The products to be developed in this project include a remote monitoring platform. There will be a video capture system with an online communication mode and a remote electronic record that can be shared in confidence and communicate between users and health professionals in the field of products used at home for neuro. The IBILI and the BrainEyes will work in the area of non-intrusive human-machine interaction that encourage cognitive rehabilitation and acquisition of new skills at home. We will adapt new technologies from virtual reality concepts, augmented or simulated, for application on "assisted living" devices that can be used either as tools for rehabilitation or for "diagnostic reading" . Here, the collaboration of ISR in products for video analysis of gesture and facial expression is very important. Some of these technologies, in the home environment, will thus include sensors/computers embedded in the everyday life network, and in case of daily routines will advance/check the user's needs.