SENSE-GARDEN is a therapeutic space addressing care and well-being of people, with focus on mental health. Current users are persons with major neurocognitive disorders and their caregivers. The space is open to other conditions, situations, and accommodating all ages. In the SENSE-GARDEN space there are photos, videos, music and scents connected with the person's life story that strengthen the awareness by providing stimuli to the different senses, such as sight, touch, hearing, balance and smell. There are today SENSE-GARDENs in daily operation in Belgium, Norway, Portugal and Romania, and a new already one planned for the Netherlands near Eindhoven.

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AUTOWORK is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Monash University in Australia studying the future of work with a goal of providing solutions to societal changes arising from the automation, digitalization, and robotization of work-life across three sectors: building, sale and service, and healthcare. The research involves extensive site visits and consultation with workers through Futures Scenarios Workshops, paying special attention to diversity and inclusion and aim to ensure that the work of the future is meaningful for workers.

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The aim of GoodBrother is to increase the awareness on the ethical, legal, and privacy issues associated to audio- and video-based monitoring and to propose privacy-aware working solutions for assisted living, by creating an interdisciplinary community of researchers and industrial partners from different fields (computing, engineering, healthcare, law, sociology) and other stakeholders (users, policy makers, public services), stimulating new research and innovation. GoodBrother will offset the “Big Brother” sense of continuous monitoring by increasing user acceptance, exploiting these new solutions, and improving market reach.

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LIFEBOTS Exchange is a project that fosters seeks cross-sectoral, international and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance social robotics with a focus on healthcare. The project promotes mobility and staff exchanges between researchers at universities and robot developers at companies across 11 countries. Through these exchanges researchers and developers advance practical knowledge about the capabilities of social robots and how they can be integrated into people's lives in meaningful and ethical ways. LIFEBOTS Exchange is currently on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we look forward to resuming activities once international travel is again possible.

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The LIFEBOTS Exchange Extended (LEE) project brings together Norwegian companies and public organisations with academic experts to envision the future of robotics in the healthcare sector and expand the impact and reach of LIFEBOTS Exchange project.

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Robotics4EU facilitates a more widespread adoption of (AI-based) robots in healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production by implementing responsible research and innovation (RRI) principles in the robotic community. The project will engage in extensive consultation with designers, end-users, policy makers, and the general public across Europe about what challenges and opportunities exist for increased societal acceptance of robots. 

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Into the brain is a research project to explore the potential of non-pharmacological interventions suported by digital technologies in fostering mental health.

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The Immersive Technology and Robotics Lab was a public research lab at NTNU University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Based in NTNU’s Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, the ImRo Lab conducted research on social robotics and immersive technology in healthcare settings, with a special focus on technologies used by older adults.

Founded in 2017 by Professor Artur Serrano, the lab was an interdisciplinary convening space where novel technology could be tested and, crucially, the impact of the technology on their user groups as well as broader societal implications of technology could be considered. The ImRo Lab brought together technologists, social scientists, healthcare professionals, businesses, users, and students to chart a course for the development and responsible implementation of cutting edge robotic healthcare technology.

The ImRo Lab was located in the Fred Kavli Building on NTNU’s Øya campus in Trondheim. The lab included an example of digital immersive technology, a SENSE-GARDEN tent.

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LIFEBOTS Exchange aimed at enhancing cross-sector, international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of social robotics technology. The project particularly focused on the health and care sector, and examined how social robots can be included into people's life.

LIFEBOTS Exchange was a project financed by the Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE), which is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The RISE programme promotes cross-borderand cross-sector collaboration through sharing knowledge and ideas from research to market and vica versa.

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