The goal of AsTeRICS Project is to develop a series of flexible technologies which can be adapted to motor abilities of the end-users, technologies that will allow the access to different devices like PCs, cell phones and smart home devices, all of them integrated in a platform adapted to each user as much as possible. The main objective of the project is to develop a support platform that will facilitate and improve communication resources of people with motor disabilities in their upper limbs. From the web: AsTeRICS will provide a flexible and affordable construction set for realising user driven AT by combining emerging sensor techniques like Brain-Computer Interfaces and computer vision with basic actuators. People with reduced motor capabilities will get a flexible and adaptable technology at hand, which enables them to access the Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) at the standard desktop embedded systems like mobile phones or smart home devices. AsTeRICS will implement a set of building blocks for the realisation of AT:

- Sensors that allow the individual to exploit any controllable body or mind activity for interacting with HMI

- Actuators for interfacing to standard IT, to embedded systems and to interact with the environment

- An Embedded Computing Platform that can be configured to combine sensors and actuators to tailored AT

- Solutions that support the full potential of an individual userThe core of the software suite will be provided as Open Source. The complete system will be affordable for many people who cannot benefit from leading edge supportive tools today