Program

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Program

September 29, Saturday
9:00 – 9:15	Introduction
9:15 – 10:15	Keynote speaker Prof. Silvia Rossi, PhD User Profiling and Behavior Adaptation for Socially Assistive Robotics: the case of the UPA4SAR project
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break + setup SECURE PhD students posters
10:45 – 11:15	First Session (2 presentations of 15mn each) Tanja Heuer, Ina Schiering and Reinhard Gerndt Transparency for Social Robots Petr Švarný, Zdeněk Straka and Matěj Hoffmann Toward safe separation distance monitoring from RGB-D sensors in human-robot interaction
11:15 – 11:30	Introduction of SECURE project
11:30 – 12:00	SECURE presentations (5 teasers of 5 mn each) ESR1 – Grigorios Skaltsas Measuring Habituation during Human-Robot Interaction as part of the requirements for a PhD within SECURE project. ESR2 – Alessandra Rossi, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay and Michael L. Walters Investigating human perceptions of trust and social cues in robots for safe HRI in home environments ESR4 – Francois Foerster and Jeremy Goslin Virtual Reality as a Tool to Study Embodied Cognition ESR5 – Chandrakant Bothe, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber and Stefan Wermter Progress Report: Language Learning for Safety during Human-Robot Interaction ESR6 – Egor Lakomkin Speech Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction with Deep Neural Networks
12:00 – 12:30	Poster session 1
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch + setup SECURE PhD students posters
13:30 – 14:00	SECURE presentations (5 teasers of 5 mn each) ESR7 – Mohammad Ali Zamani, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber and Stefan Wermter Progress Report: Language-modulated Actions using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safer Human-Robot Interaction ESR8 – Dong Hai Phuong Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann, Ugo Pattacini and Giorgio Metta Learning peripersonal space in Humanoid Robot and its application on safe Human-robot Interaction ESR9 – Marie Charbonneau, Valerio Modugno, Francesco Nori, Giuseppe Oriolo, Daniele Pucci and Serena Ivaldi Learning robust task priorities of optimization based whole-body torque-controllers ESR11 – Chih-Hsuan Chen Dense 3D Environment Reconstruction with an RGB-D Camera for Mobile Robot ESR12 – Alexis Billier Design of a robotic finger combining a linkage-based design and the push-pull cable technology
14:00 – 14:30	Poster session 2
14:30 – 17:00	Discussion tables
17:00	Finish

September 30, Sunday
9:00	Introduction
9:00 – 10:00	Keynote speaker Prof. Dana Kulic, PhD Learning for improved human-robot collaboration
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break + setup SOCRATES PhD students posters
10:30 – 10:45	Introduction of SOCRATES project
10:45 – 11:30	SOCRATES presentations (8 teasers of 5 mn each) ESR1 – Henrique Siqueira An Adaptive Neural Approach Based on Ensemble and Multitask Learning for Affect Recognition ESR2 – Alexander Sutherland Toward Emotion Recognition From Early Fused Acoustic and Language Features Using Recursive Neural Networks ESR3 – Vesna Poprcova Can body motion properties be used as potential indicators of depression in elderly? ESR4 – Michele Persiani Text-Based Inference of Object Affordances for Human-Robot Interaction ESR5 – Cagatay Odabasi Learning Optical Flow For Action Classification ESR6 – Maitreyee Tewari and Suna Bensch Natural Language Communication with Social Robots for Assisted Living ESR7 – André Potenza Towards measuring mental workload from facial expressions ESR8 – Aleksandar Taranović Multimodal Robot Feedback While Learning a Novel Cognitive Exercise From a Human Teacher
11:30-12:00	Poster session 3
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch + Setup SOCRATES PhD students posters
13:00 – 13:40	SOCRATES presentations (7 teasers of 5 mn each) ESR9 – Antonio Andriella Are you playing with me? On the importance of Detecting and Recovering Disengagement in Mild Dementia Patients playing Brain-Training Exercises ESR10 – Samuel Olatunji Increasing the Understanding between a Dining Table Robot Assistant and the User ESR11 – Truong Giang Vo and Simone Kilian Service Assistant to Support the Elderly with Mobility Issues ESR12 – Antonella Camilieri Analyzing Explicit(Speech) Modalities from Human-Human Interactions for building Context about a Robot-Assisted Dressing Task. ESR13 – Neziha Akalin A First Step Towards Understanding the Effect of an Interactive Robot on User Experience in Motivational Interview ESR14 – Anouk van Maris The Effect of Affective Robot Behaviour on the Level of Attachment After One Interaction ESR15 – Naomi Yvonne Mbelekani Emotion-Motion Interaction as a baseline for understanding non-verbal expression of computational empathy and users’ expectations
13:40 – 14:10	Poster Session 4
14:10 – 14:40	Conclusions