CETpD AmI projects are included in the assistive field mainly for housing and health application. We are looking for technological solutions that have the potential to include everyone, that are affordable and build trust and confidence directed to improve the quality of life of any person specially elders and disabled.

The priority lines of work are three:
(1) to develop new architectures of control and forms of signal processing which the robots allow to capture knowledge and being cognitive through the human-machine interaction; (2) to research in the more suitable forms of interaction, so they are motivating and satisfying for the user; and (3) to develop in an effective way robotic systems that are capable of supplying with personalised individual assistance to people with dependence (permanent, rehabilitation or convalescence). Therefore, the research implies areas like HRI, control and systems of computational learning in complex, changing and uncertain environments, integrating processes of perception, representation and interaction with people.

The purpose of the user experience field, usability, is to provide relevant information about users expectations, capabilities and preferences, in order to ensure that products and services would meet end users –and other stakeholders- functional and affective needs. All the CETpD projects incorporates user’s experience feedback in the process of contextual product and services development.

Gait alterations, balance alterations and falls are major causes of disability in the elderly population. Such pathologies seriously impair elders’ quality of life; furthermore, their consequences have high economic and social impact. Therefore, clinical and epidemiological studies on these pathologies are conducted at the CETpD in order to gain insight into their causes and to find novel therapeutics.

A major objective in geriatrics is to maintain elderly persons’ independence to carry out their daily life activities and to interact with their environment. In this regard, technology may be an essential tool to facilitate elderly persons’ autonomy. At the CETpD, we develop technology aimed at improving elders’ adaptation to their environment, as well as remote diagnosis devices designed for early detection of health alterations in frail persons or persons living alone.