eCARE for Healthy Ageing
Enhanced Caregiving through AI and Robotics Enablers for Healthy Ageing
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Luis Figueredo, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Sami Haddadin, Eckehard Steinbach
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 2 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 2 7 - 7
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Request a sales quote"eCARE for Healthy Ageing: Enhanced Caregiving through AI and Robotics Enablers for Healthy Ageing" serves as as a practical guide for researchers, providing a holistic perspective on activities of daily living (ADLs), health monitoring, and social interaction in the context of caregiving for older adults. In the first part, "Real-world Care Tasks and Requirements," the book addresses practical applications, aiming to guide future research based on end-users and establish the foundation for assistive technologies. The second part focuses on challenges in caregiving from a robotics and AI perspective, covering topics like environment interaction, navigation, manipulation, and learning new tasks. The third part extends the discussion to ADLs involving physical contact, such as dressing and feeding. It explores perception, health monitoring, physical collaboration, and interaction, addressing technological challenges and opportunities. The fourth part delves into the cognitive aspects of human-robot interaction, exploring social interaction with older adults. The final part integrates insights from large studies and successful cases, connecting them to the earlier discussions. It highlights limitations, ethical considerations, and individual needs/dilemmas in achieving a holistic robotics and AI solution for Geriatronics.
• Discusses the challenges of collaboration across various domains, such as human-robot interaction, biomechanics, physical perception, and assistive technologies
• Provides a holistic perspective on Geriatronics by focusing on real-world care tasks and requirements
• Offers insights into the requirements, methods, challenges, and opportunities in the application of robotics and AI for older adults
• Presents videos and slideshows, offering diverse multimedia formats to enhance engagement and facilitate comprehensive understanding
• Provides a holistic perspective on Geriatronics by focusing on real-world care tasks and requirements
• Offers insights into the requirements, methods, challenges, and opportunities in the application of robotics and AI for older adults
• Presents videos and slideshows, offering diverse multimedia formats to enhance engagement and facilitate comprehensive understanding
Graduate and Postgraduate Biomedical Engineers, Clinical Engineers, R&D Professionals, Rehabilitation Engineers and Scientists specializing in various subfields of robotics and AI, with a specific emphasis on human-centered applications and Geriatronics.
Part 1. Real-world Care Tasks and Requirements
1. UN/WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing: Understanding the Landscape of Care with Older Adults
2. Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) for Older Adults: A Comprehensive Analysis
3. Health Monitoring and Intervention in Care
4. Social Interaction
5. Introduction to Geriatronics: Understanding the Landscape of Care with Older Adults with Robotics and AI
Part 2. Home Interaction: Robotics for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
6. Introduction to Home Interaction Robotics
7. Perception and Navigating in Home Environments
8. Manipulation Challenges: Interacting with Objects and Environment
9. Object understanding and Grasping at Home
10. Learning New Tasks: Continuous Adaptation through Caregiver Interaction
Part 3. Physical Perception and Engagement through AI and Robotics
11. Introduction to Health Monitoring and Physical Interaction with Older Adults
12. Perception and Health Monitoring
13. Physical Collaboration and Interaction: Safety and Comfort
14. Robotics in ADLs with Physical Contact: Case studies with Dressing
Part 4. Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with Older Adults
15. Cognitive Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction
16. Methodologies for Social Interaction
17. Participatory Design
18. Acceptance and Engagement
Part 5. Successful Scenarios: Lessons Learned and Open Challenges
19. Case Studies in Assistive Robots for Supporting Caregiving
20. Case Studies in Assistive Robots for Health Monitoring and at Home Interaction
21. Case Studies in Social Assistive Robots
22. Future of Geriatronics: Evaluating Limitations and Improvements
1. UN/WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing: Understanding the Landscape of Care with Older Adults
2. Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) for Older Adults: A Comprehensive Analysis
3. Health Monitoring and Intervention in Care
4. Social Interaction
5. Introduction to Geriatronics: Understanding the Landscape of Care with Older Adults with Robotics and AI
Part 2. Home Interaction: Robotics for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
6. Introduction to Home Interaction Robotics
7. Perception and Navigating in Home Environments
8. Manipulation Challenges: Interacting with Objects and Environment
9. Object understanding and Grasping at Home
10. Learning New Tasks: Continuous Adaptation through Caregiver Interaction
Part 3. Physical Perception and Engagement through AI and Robotics
11. Introduction to Health Monitoring and Physical Interaction with Older Adults
12. Perception and Health Monitoring
13. Physical Collaboration and Interaction: Safety and Comfort
14. Robotics in ADLs with Physical Contact: Case studies with Dressing
Part 4. Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with Older Adults
15. Cognitive Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction
16. Methodologies for Social Interaction
17. Participatory Design
18. Acceptance and Engagement
Part 5. Successful Scenarios: Lessons Learned and Open Challenges
19. Case Studies in Assistive Robots for Supporting Caregiving
20. Case Studies in Assistive Robots for Health Monitoring and at Home Interaction
21. Case Studies in Social Assistive Robots
22. Future of Geriatronics: Evaluating Limitations and Improvements
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443337260
- eBook ISBN: 9780443337277
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Luis Figueredo
Dr. Luis Figueredo's research is centered on intelligent robots aiding humans in daily living, healthcare and assistive technologies. His expertise spans cooperative manipulation, with an awarded Ph.D. at the University of Brasilia and research internship at MIT with awarded robot demonstrations. Recognized with the Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions–IF, he pioneered biomechanics-aware manipulation leading collaborations at the University of Leeds where he organized the largest UK meeting on robotic manipulation. In assistive robotics, he integrated multimodalities including ergonomics, natural language processing, and biomechanics to robot motion. His AI tools for ergonomics and biomechanics assessment are on the AI4EU platform, acknowledged on the EU Innovation Radar. Demonstrating the practical impact, live robot demos at the AI Society Automatica, the world’s leading trade fair for smart automation, showcase rehabilitation robotics integrated with human-digital twins. Dr Figueredo has also coordinated the scientific progress of the Geriatronics Lighthouse Initiative together with Dr Naceri and Prof. Haddadin at the Munich Inst. of Robotics and Machine Intellig. at the Tech. University of Munich, where he is also an associated fellow.
Affiliations and expertise
University of NottinghamAN
Abdeldjallil Naceri
Dr. Abdeldjallil Naceri received his PhD degree in Robotics, Neurosciences and Nanotechnologies from the University of Genoa in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. Dr. Naceri gained research experience in both computational neuroscience and robotics during his PostDoc period at Bielefeld University where he worked at both departments of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Neuroinformatics. From 2018-2021 he worked as Senior PostDoc at the Advanced Robotics Department at the Italian institute of Technology. Dr. Naceri contributed to the European projects: The Hand Embodied (THE) and WEARable HAPtics (WEARHAP) and DFG funded excellence cluster project: FAMULA. Since Feb. 2021 Dr. Naceri joined MSRM, TUM (Geriatronics research center) as Senior Research Scientist.
Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of MunichSH
Sami Haddadin
Prof. Sami Haddadin is the Executive Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and holds the Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, non-linear control, and human motor intelligence.
From 2014 to 2018, Sami Haddadin was Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Automatic Control at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. Prior to that, he held various positions as a research associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He received degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology Management from the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his doctorate with high distinction from RWTH Aachen. He has published more than 200 scientific articles. He has been honored with numerous prestigious awards and prizes for his scientific work. His patent on “Tactile Robots” is listed as the most recent addition to the “Milestone made in Germany” (DPMA) collection.
Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of MunichES
Eckehard Steinbach
Eckehard Steinbach is a distinguished figure in the field of Electrical Engineering and Media Technology. He pursued his education across several esteemed institutions, including the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Essex, and ESIEE Paris, culminating in a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1999. Following this, he conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining the Technical University of Munich as a Full Professor in February 2002.
Prof. Steinbach's research focuses on audio-visual-haptic information processing, communication, and multimedia systems. He has played pivotal roles in numerous conferences and workshops, serving as a co-chair and program co-chair for various events, including ACM Multimedia and IEEE ICME. He has also contributed as a guest editor for prestigious journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
Steinbach's editorial service includes roles as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Haptics. His contributions have earned him recognition, including the 2011 Alcatel-Lucent Foundation's "Technical Communication Research Prize" and election as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2015 for his significant contributions to visual and haptic communications. Prof. Steinbach's leadership, research, and editorial contributions have significantly enriched the field of multimedia technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair of Media Technology Technical at University of Munich