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Proper nutrition is important for the well-being of older adults. Inadequate or wrong food consumption during meals can lead to health issues. In this paper, we present an application that uses a humanoid Socially Assistive Robot, Alpha Mini in this case, in order to monitor the behavior and engage adults during meal-time, enhancing their experience. The robot works in a tight coupling with Artificial intelligence technologies based on Deep learning for the tasks of activity recognition and food detection and recognition.
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This publication was produced with the co-funding European Union - Next Generation EU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment Partenariato Esteso PE8 “Conseguenze e sfide dell’invecchiamento”, Project Age-It (Ageing Well in an Ageing Society), CUP: B83C22004800006.
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De Carolis, B., Loglisci, C., Macchiarulo, N., Palestra, G. (2025). Engaging Older Adults at Meal-Time Through AI-Empowered Socially Assistive Robots. In: Meo, R., Silvestri, F. (eds) Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2136. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74640-6_29
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