Progetto Europeo MAIA
Multifunctional, adaptive and interactive AI system for Acting in multiple contexts (2020-2024)
Programma di finanziamento:
Programma HORIZON 2020: “FETPROACT-EIC-05-2019 - FET Proactive: emerging paradigms and communities”
Abstract
What if in a near future Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes human-centric, focusing on human needs and build trustworthiness by mutual understanding? Today, millions of people worldwide suffer from deteriorated motor abilities, due to stroke, brain tumor surgery or accident. This represents a serious society challenge with missing adequate technological response. Patients need assistive devices that are trustworthy, multifunctional, adaptive and interactive, i.e., intelligent, unlike current neuroprosthetics that replace single motor impairments.
MAIA proposes a paradigm shift where human-centric AI will control prosthetic and assistive devices. We will investigate and resolve critical steps towards the rapid development of such human-centric control: a radically novel intention decoder, a novel concept for trustworthy human-AI interactions, and a new type of database for acquired information from multiple sources.
MAIA AI technology will decode human intentions and communicate the decoded targets to assistive devices and to the users, to ensure compliance and develop trust through natural interaction and mutual learning. The technological outcome will be a multifunctional human-centric AI controller at TRL4 with embedded trustworthy characteristics, suitable to be integrated in robotic arms, wheelchair and exoskeletons.
To reach this, MAIA will investigate the principles underlying natural, fast and lean communication and new forms of combinations of neural and behavioural data beyond current data processing. MAIA’s approach will be guided by real needs of end users (patients and caregivers) through their direct involvement in the research program, and by all current knowledge from neuro-, cognitive, and social science research.
The application domains of MAIA’s new paradigm span from healthcare to industry, and space exploration. We will also establish a European innovation ecosystem beyond the research labs that will stimulate highly innovative enterprises.
The team of the Department of Psychology will analyze:
- the acceptance of the MAIA concept and end-user (spinal cord injury patients, brain injury patients, stroke patients and their caregivers) requirements
- the ergonomics of the AI-human interface of MAIA
- the embodiment of the final prototype of MAIA
Durata del progetto/Project duration
2021 – 2024 (48 months)
Responsabile scientifico
Prof.ssa Patrizia Fattori
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Neuromotorie - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Responsabile scientifico per il Dipartimento
Prof.ssa Alessia Tessari
Coordinator
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Partnership
- Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Bologna (Italy)
- Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain)
- Stam Srl (Italy)
- Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (Italy)
- Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Germany)
- Carl Zeiss Vision International Gmbh (Germany)
Finanziamento
€ 4 013 437,50