Thesis Project Form
Title (tentative): Diversity-aware multimodal interface for users with spinal cord injury| Thesis advisor(s): Casadio Maura, Recchiuto Carmine, Lucrezia Grassi, Antonio Sgorbissa (DIBRIS) Antonino Massone (Santa Corona hospital) | E-mail: |
| Address: Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova (ITALY) | Phone: (+39) 010 33 52749 |
Description
Motivation and application domain
The NAO robot is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Softbank Robotics. The robot is employed in many different environments, and it can talk, walk, and recognize people and emotions. In this project, we aim at employing NAO for assisting people affected by spinal cord injury by keeping them company, discussing several topics with them, and performing actions.
General objectives and main activities
The goal of this thesis project is to make the NAO robot able to assist people constrained in a bed due to spinal cord injury.
To accomplish this goal, the thesis has different aims:
- develop a client for the robot that allows it to connect to the CAIR cloud for autonomous interaction
- implement the audio acquisition mechanism by using an external microphone connected to a Raspberry
- add new conversation topics to the knowledge base and implement new actions
To accomplish this goal, the thesis has different aims:
- develop a client for the robot that allows it to connect to the CAIR cloud for autonomous interaction
- implement the audio acquisition mechanism by using an external microphone connected to a Raspberry
- add new conversation topics to the knowledge base and implement new actions
Training Objectives (technical/analytical tools, experimental methodologies)
1. Develop the client for the robot and the external audio acquisition using a Raspberry
2. Improve the dialogue capabilities of the robot adding new conversation topics
3. Implement new actions that the robot can perform during the interaction
4. Test the developed system in a real environment
2. Improve the dialogue capabilities of the robot adding new conversation topics
3. Implement new actions that the robot can perform during the interaction
4. Test the developed system in a real environment
Place(s) where the thesis work will be carried out: NeuroLab (DIBRIS, UNIGE), Spinal Cord Italian Lab (Unità Spinale Unipolare, Ospedale Santa Corona, ASL2 Savonese, Pietra Ligure)
Additional information
Maximum number of students: 1