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SUMMARY:Human-Robot Interaction\, Applications in Rehabilitation\, and Rob
 oethics
DTSTART:20140617T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Van der Loos\, University of British Columbia\nThe UBC-C
 ARIS Lab Research Program\nThe Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelli
 gent Systems (CARIS) Lab at the University of British Columbia has two mai
 n pursuits: the exploration of principles guiding human-robot interaction
   for industrial and personal interactions\, and the specific application
  of mechatronics for physical  therapy. This talk will present projects s
 uch as: robust robot-human object handover\; the role of gestures to commu
 nicate intention in resource-conflict collaborative tasks\; the modelling 
 of quiet stance control algorithms with a large hexapod robot (RISER)\; th
 e use of kinematic motion capture and online games in a motivating\, biman
 ual\, upper-limb therapy application (FEATHERS)\; and the exploration of r
 oboethics issues in the real-world context of robots navigating halls and 
 elevators in an office building.\nBio: H.F. Machiel Van der Loos\, Ph.D.\,
  P.Eng.\, IEEE member (RAS and EMBS) is Associate Professor in Mechanical 
 Engineering at UBC. He is Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics for Exer
 cise and Assessment in Collaborative Healthcare (RREACH) Lab\, is Associat
 e Director of the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems 
 (CARIS) Lab\, and teaches engineering design. His research is dedicated to
  the advancement of rehabilitation robotics and human-robot interaction\, 
 and he holds a special interest in the ethical challenges associated with 
 the evolving field. Dr. Van der Loos received his Diplôme d’Ingénieur 
 from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne\, Switzerland in 1978 
 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. From 1992 to 2007\, he was
  a Principal Investigator at the VA Palo Alto Rehabilitation R&D Center in
  California\, where he focused on assistive and therapy robotics research 
 for spinal cord injury and stroke\, and Consulting Professor in the Design
  Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford Universi
 ty\, where he co-developed innovative curricula in design engineering. Dr.
  Van der Loos is co-Editor of the book\, Design and Use of Assistive Techn
 ology: Social\, Technical\, Ethical\, and Economic Challenges (2010)\, and
  author of more than 30 journal papers\, 90 conference papers and 3 book c
 hapters. He has also chaired three IEEE RAS/EMBS conferences in human-robo
 t interaction and rehabilitation robotics.
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