PlusMe
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PlusMe Transitional Wearable Companions for the therapy with children with Auti...
PlusMe Transitional Wearable Companions for the therapy with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
+me is an experimental soft interactive toy with a panda form designed in collaboration with developmental therapists. Thanks to embedded electronics, +me can emit attractive responses as colored lights and amusing sounds when tou...
+me is an experimental soft interactive toy with a panda form designed in collaboration with developmental therapists. Thanks to embedded electronics, +me can emit attractive responses as colored lights and amusing sounds when touched on paws. The device is connected to a control tablet to allow an adult caregiver to modify the input-output contingencies, so as to produce several rewarding response patterns according to child’s reaction. These features make +me a potential support tool for therapy of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): the attractiveness and the functional versatility of the device could be exploited during play activities with a therapist to capture the interest of children, to encourage their social interactions, then reinforcing pivotal social skills as imitation, eye-contact, turn-taking.
+me is currently in experimental phase, in pilot tests on children (24-48 months) with ASD and Typical Development (TD). The experiments are conducted in collaboration with the Sec. of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry -Univ. of Rome Sapienza- whose researchers showed great interest to technological aid for therapy.
+me is an indirect -yet really promising- outcome of the ongoing FET project Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning Robots, GOAL-Robots (Grant Agreement No. 713010).
The main goal of the proposal is to develop the +me from the current experimental prototype towards a ready-for-market product, certified for safe use in EU. The proposal aims to 1) engineer the prototype, through a third party company expert in electronic manufacturing, in order to realise a small-scale production of 10/20 working +me samples; 2) at the same time, continue the experimentation on TD and ASD children, to strengthen the scientific aspects of the device; 3) disclose the obtained results through scientific publications and participation to promotional events market-oriented, in forecast of a next possible commercialisation.
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Duración del proyecto: 25 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2020-04-06
Fecha Fin: 2022-05-31
Fecha Fin: 2022-05-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-05-31
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
FETOPEN-03-2018-2019-2020:
FET Innovation Launchpad
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hace 6 años
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El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
99K€
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