e-VITA Workshop
Introduction
Putting social robots into the private homes of community-dwelling
older adults in Europe and Japan for a longer period of time (e.g. 6
months) is a huge challenge, due to several reasons; First, there are
the intercultural issues in different countries, but also the long time
frame plays an important role because it should not become boring over
time. Second, there is always also the need fulfilment aspect, which
needs personalization of contents and abilities of the robot. Third, the
natural language understanding might also be either a barrier or an
enabler of the long-term use.
And finally, there are also ethical issues which needs to be taken into account.
The European-Japanese research project e-VITA aims to tackle all
those topics and challenges in term of joint developments between Europe
and Japan, taking into account also standardization and
interoperability issues. Finally, in 2023 spring/summer the e-VITA
demonstrator will be put into 120 households in Europe and Japan, and
the study design incl. a control group will examine different types of
social and religious robots as well as other NLP devices (3D-hologram
and simple speakers)
Credits and Fundings
