Very carefully, home care manager Joran Hoogenberg opened a large box, and then proudly lifted out his new colleague: the Guardian robot Misty II! Jor...
Health Valley Event 2022
Health Valley Event (HVE) is the place to be in the Netherlands to meet everyone involved in innovations, science and business in Life Sciences and He...
Interview: Social robot Guardian: friendly companion in addition to daily care
How to ensure that the capabilities of a care robot match the needs of older people living at home? With this in mind, ConnectedCare conducted field r...
Design and development of the GUARDIAN ecosystem at ALTRUIST 2021
At November 13, Giulio Amabili, researcher at National Institute of Health and Sciences on Aging (INRCA), presented a paper about the Guardian proje...
Third consortium meeting
Early October 2021, the GUARDIAN project team gathered for a consortium meeting in Ancona. Based on the findings from the user studies with prototype ...
Assessment of Domestic Well-Being: From Perception to Measurement
Nowadays, there are plenty of sensing devices that enable the measurement of physiological, environmental, and behavioral parameters of people 24 hour...
Care organization involved in the development of an advanced care robot
Zorggroep Noordwest-Veluwe (ZNWV), a care provider in the Netherlands that is specialized in senior care, is part of the development of the care robot...
Upcoming symposium: The COVID-19 Pandemic, A Catalyst For Digital Health
Despite the world’s challenges while overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, we observe its significant positive impact on healthcare’s digital ...
The challenges of implementing responsible user-centered evaluation in times of pandemic crisis
Projects like Guardian always include a long period of iterative evaluations and rectifications to end up in a qualitative designed product that meets...
A robot that knows when an older person is feeling sad
‘In order to support caregivers, we want the Guardian care robot to be able to detect the feelings of an older person’, says Alexandre de Masi, Ph...