MoRobAE 2019 Program

Thursday May 23, 2019, 13:30 – 17:30

Palais des congrès de Montréal, Room 520e

13:30 – 13:40: Welcome

François Michaud, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec Canada

13:40 - 15:20: ORAL PRESENTATIONS

13:40 – 14:00: Feedback Design to Improve Interaction of Person-following Robots for Older Adults

Samuel Olatunji, Vardit Sarne-Flesichmann, Shanee Honig, Tal Oron-Gilad and Yael Edan
Israel
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14:00 – 14:20: User Centered HRI Design for an Intelligent Robotic Rollator

Xanthi S. Papageorgiou, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Alexandra Karavasili, Costas Tzafestas, Petros Maragos, Anna Vacalopoulou and Theodore Goulas
Greece
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14:20 – 14:40: The ENRICHME Project: Validation of the Human-Machine Interface

Roxana Agrigoroaie, François Ferland and Adriana Tapus
France
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14:40 – 15:00: A Socially Assistive Robot to Facilitate and Assess Exercise Goals

Silas Franco dos Reis Alves, Mingyang Shao and Goldie Nejat
Canada
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15:00 – 15:20: Attempting to Have Mobile Robots Move to Real Homes Through the Development of Open Source Libraries

François Michaud, Mathieu Labbé, Dominic Létourneau, François Grondin, François Ferland and Sébastien Laniel
Canada
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15:20-15:55: POSTER SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATIONS

15:20 – 15:25: An Active Smart Walker for the Elderly

Dario Calogero Guastella, Luciano Cantelli and Giovanni Muscato
Italy
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15:25 – 15:30: Comparing the Impact of Robotic Rollator Control Schemes on Elderly Gait using on-line LRF-based Gait Analysis

Georgia Chalvatzaki, Xanthi S. Papageorgiou, Petros Maragos and Costas S. Tzafestas
Greece
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15:30 – 15:35: Social Interactive Intention Prediction and Categorization

Xuan Tung Truong and Trung Dung Ngo
Canada
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15:35 – 15:40: STEPbySTEP Project: Systematic Test of Exoskeleton Products by a Stairs-based Testbed Evaluation Protocol

Marco Caimmi, Matteo Malosio, Diego Borro, Federico Fraboni, Giuseppe Rainieri, Luca Pietrantoni and Loris Roveda
Italy, Spain, Switzerland
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15:40 – 15:45: Preliminary Hardware and System Design Investigation for an Affordable and Mobile Assistive Robot for Elderly Care

Caio Mucchiani, Pamela Cacchione, Ross Mead, Michelle Johnson and Mark Yim
United States of America
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15:45 – 15:50: RoboMem: Giving Long Term Memory to Robots

Ifrah Idrees, Steven P. Reiss and Stefanie Tellex
United States of America
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15:50 – 15:55: Supporting Older People at Home with a Mobile Robot for Independent Living

Jim Torresen
Norway
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15:55 – 16:30: COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

16:30 - 17:30: GROUP DISCUSSION

Open Discussion on Robot Assistants for the Elderly

Moderated by François Michaud

This period consists of an open, lively, free-wheeling discussion on any topic on robot assistants for the elderly. The audience is free to ask questions, with the objectives to get comments, advices, points of view, etc. from the other participants on important issues regarding robot assistants for the elderly, or bring ideas to the table for collaboration opportunities.

Examples can be:

• What is missing to get robots to be used in the field? Are the difficulties mainly clinical or technological?
• Should seniors be involved in the design? How? Is this a techno push or an application pull situation, or both?
• Would a shared framework for robot design and evaluation be put in place?
• Are there international opportunities and program that we should keep an eye on?