Located in Milan, Hospitale San Raffaele is an innovative clinical and diagnostic center. This Italian hospital is involved in the ALIZ-E project, which aims at developing robots that can help people improve their communication skills.
Project ALIZ-E involves the evaluation and development of social robot roles as well as personalized dialogues to help people develop effective communication skills. Although these kinds of robots are already available, the ALIZ-E project strives to improve robot-human interaction over a range of days instead of minutes. Each robot will be fitted with a memory function, which will help it remember voices as well as store interaction episodes and experiences. Moreover, the robots will depend on sustainable and adaptive non-verbal interaction, taking a personified perspective to affective interaction.
