Projet SOCRATES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SOCRATES is a PhD training program for 15 young researchers, created to develop the field of Social Robotics with an application focus on Robotics in Eldercare. The research in Social Robotics has a common theme of Interaction Quality, which is a concept for characterization of how a specific mode of interaction is fit for a given task, situation, and user. Interaction Quality often changes, for instance if an older adult gets tired and loses focus when interacting with a robot. Interaction Quality also depends on the robot’s functionality and design, and will be addressed from a range of perspectives in five research workpackages: • Emotion: novel multi-modal methods to perceive human emotions from facial expressions, body motion, auditory and language cues • Intention: new techniques to infer human goals and intention from natural language and video analysis • Adaptivity: techniques to adapt a robot’s behaviour to user needs • Design: Novel design methods for hardware, interfaces, and safety • Acceptance: Procedures for evaluation of user acceptance Additional value and impact is generated by the unique multidisciplinary collaboration between academic disciplines that normally do not work together; computer science, cognitive science, biomechanics, ethics, social psychology, and social science. Intersectoral collaboration between academia, caregivers, business developers, and robot manufacturers will further strengthen novelty and impact by ensuring that relevant needs are addressed, and that research result are both economically and technically feasible. The outcome of SOCRATES will be a new generation of researchers with the ability to interact with scholars from different ‘schools-of-thought’ in areas that are well within as well as outside of their areas of expertise.

Mots clés : social robotics, human robot interaction, elderly care, robot ethics, interaction design, natural language processing, robot safety, sliding autonomy, teleoperation

Participants :
- Örebro University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 527318.64 €
- Cdi - negev ltd. (Israël) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Fraunhofer Society (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Umeå University (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 527318.64 €
- Asea brown boveri sa (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fundació ACE (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Pal robotics sl (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Adele robots sociedad limitada (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Universität Hamburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 780901.56 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 495745.92 €
- Uminova Innovation (Sweden) (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Alfred nobel science park (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of the West of England (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 546575.76 €
- Urquhart-dykes & lord llp (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €