AlterEgo
Enhancing Social Interaction with an AlterEgo Artificial Agent
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER I
Organization address
address: BOULEVARD HENRI IV 5 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | France [FR] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.euromov.eu/alterego |
| Totale costo | 3˙834˙912 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙920˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2011-9 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-02-01 - 2016-01-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER I
Organization address
address: BOULEVARD HENRI IV 5 contact info |
FR (MONTPELLIER) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE MONTPELLIER
Organization address
address: Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud 191 contact info |
FR (MONTPELLIER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH
Organization address
address: Trippstadter Strasse contact info |
DE (KAISERSLAUTERN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Organization address
address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 contact info |
CH (LAUSANNE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Organization address
address: Northcote House, The Queen's Drive contact info |
UK (EXETER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Organization address
address: SENATE HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The objective of AlterEgo is the creation of an interactive cognitive architecture, implementable in various artificial agents, allowing a continuous interaction with patients suffering from social disorders, by virtue of changes in behavioural (robot-based) as well as morphological (avatar-based) properties of that agent. The AlterEgo architecture is rooted in complex systems, machine learning, and computer vision. The project includes research in fundamental and clinical neurosciences, interaction modeling, development of new computer-vision techniques and human-robot interfaces, as well as evaluation of the scenarios with patients before, during, and after training sessions. At the end of the project, we will produce a new robotic-based clinical method able to enhance social interaction of patients. This new method will change existing therapies, will be applied to a variety of pathologies, and will be individualized to each patient. The first challenge of this project is to create an avatar and a robot alter ego of a patient. Based on recent work in social robotics and neurosciences, we hypothesize that if patients face artificial agents morphologically and behaviourally similar to them, they will increase their social interaction. The second challenge is to transform the morphology and the behaviour of the similar artificial agent into that of a healthy and different agent. We assume that the smooth and continuous behavioural shift from similar/unhealthy to complementary/healthy social behaviour will lead to a better social rehabilitation. AlterEgo opens the door to a new generation of social artificial agents in service robotics. AlterEgo is an interdisciplinary project composed of 7 workpackages, at the interaction of Social Motor Neurosciences (UM1), Robotics (EPFL), Complex Systems Dynamics (UOB and UNEXE), Computer Vision (DFKI), and Psychiatry (CHU).