| Classifying Group Affect During Dance Therapy Sessions with Older Adults to Promote Overall Wellbeing University of Toronto | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2023-07-26 | Yizhu Li, Goldie Nejat |
| Attempting to aggregate perceptual constructs from deep neural networks for video and audio interaction representation University of Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2023-03-14 | Marc-Antoine Maheux, "Guillaume Auclair", "Philippe Warren", Dominic Létourneau, Francois Michaud |
| Designing a tabletop SAR as an advanced HRI experimental platform University of Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, University of British Columbia | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2024-03-08 | Marc-Antoine Maheux, Dominic Létourneau, "Philippe Warren", Adina M. Panchea, Julie Robillard, Francois Michaud |
| Exploratory evaluation of a tabletop robot with older adults Université de Sherbrooke, University of Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2024-03-11 | Adina M. Panchea, Marc-Antoine Maheux, "Philippe Warren", Dominic Létourneau, Francois Michaud |
| T-Top, an open source tabletop robot with advanced onboard audio, vision and deep learning capabilities Université de Sherbrooke, University of Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2023-10-10 | Marc-Antoine Maheux, Adina M. Panchea, "Philippe Warren", Dominic Létourneau, Francois Michaud |
| Oral Presentation at EPIC 2020 Conference WATCH ONLINE AT:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/AGEWELLEPICConference2020CA3/1
ABSTRACT :
Socially assistive robots (SARs) are becoming more ubiquitous in the context of long-term care for seniors, both in place
and in care facilities. Indeed, there are a lot of studies involving interactions between seniors and SARs, which report that
SARs can indeed provide good solutions to some seniors needs. Still, the interactions are usually predefined by
researchers and for relative short periods of time. In contrast to previous studies, the multidisciplinary research project in
which I take part intends to go further and involves the seniors in the design of adaptable and understandable SARs.
This will be done by working along with care facilities personnel, caregivers, seniors and their families while deploying
different SARs, for periods of time, in care facilities so that ideas and conditions of uses can emerge from such
cohabitation setting. During the deployments, constant feedback with stakeholders will be gathered and used to improve
and adapt the design of SARs. Moreover, as the project seeks to deploy SARs for long periods of time to long-term care
for seniors, other aspects such as ethical, public policy, financially or law related ones, will be taken into consideration.
Our multidisciplinary team covers needs/uses, tackles ethical and acceptability issues in using SARs in care facilities, law
to identify the legislative and applicable legal framework obstacles to successfully integrating SARs into the care network,
and applied politics to establish a relationship between researchers and public officials to integrate this kind of
technologies in the real world. Université de Sherbrooke | HQP Training | 2020-06-09 | Adina M. Panchea |
| Robots Making Life Easier for Businesses Large and Small (panel discussion)Invited to participate in a panel discussion at the MaRS Supply AI conference and demo day to connect with startups, customers, and investors interested in promoting the use of AI technologies.
Panel included CEOs of companies that are focused on building applied AI and intelligent supply chain products and services. University of Toronto | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2022-11-21 | Cristina Getson |
| Dances with Social Robots: A Pilot Study at Long-Term CareDance therapy can have significant physical, emotional and cognitive benefits for older adults. In particular, social robots can be developed to autonomously facilitate dance sessions to engage these individuals with the aim of improving quality of life. To successfully integrate and promote long-term use of social robots into long-term care homes for such recreational activities, it is important to explore both residents’ and staff’s perceptions of such robots. In this paper, we present the first pilot human–robot interaction study that investigates the overall experiences and attitudes of both residents and staff in a long-term care home for robot-facilitated dance sessions. In general, the questionnaire results from our study showed that both staff and residents had positive attitudes
towards the robot-facilitated dance activity. Encouraging trends showed residents had higher ratings
for statements on perceived ease of use, safety, and enjoyment than the staff. However, the staff had a statistically significantly higher rating for willingness to use the robots for dance facilitation. Some key statistical differences were also determined with respect to: (1) gender within the resident group (men had higher ratings for the robots being useful in helping facilitate recreational activities), as well as between staff and residents (resident men had higher perceived safety), and (2) prior robot experience (residents with limited prior experience had higher ratings on perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment than staff with the same level of experience). The robot-facilitated dance activity was positively received by both older adults and staff as an activity of daily living that can enhance wellbeing while also being safe, easy to use and enjoyable. University of Toronto | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2022-09-13 | Yizhu Li, Nan Liang, Meysam Effati, Goldie Nejat |
| OpenTera: A framework for telehealth applications University of Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2023-12-20 | Dominic Létourneau, Simon Briere, Marc-Antoine Maheux, Cédric Godin, "Warren, Philippe", "Lauzier, Gabriel", "Joly, Ian-Mathieu", "Bourque, Jérémie", "Arsenault, Phili", "Volanova, Cynthia", Michel Tousignant, Francois Michaud |
| OpenTera: A microservice architecture solution for rapid prototyping of robotic solutions to COVID-19 challenges in care facilitiesHealth and Technology Journal, accepted. Université de Sherbrooke, University of Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-12-19 | Adina M. Panchea, Dominic Létourneau, Simon Briere, "Mathieu Hamel ", Marc-Antoine Maheux, Cédric Godin, Michel Tousignant, Mathieu Labbé, François Ferland, "François Grondin", Francois Michaud |
| Socially Assistive Robots Helping Older Adults through the Pandemic and Life after COVID-19The COVID-19 pandemic has critically impacted the health and safety of the population of the world, especially the health and well-being of older adults. Socially assistive robots (SARs) have been used to help to mitigate the effects of the pandemic including loneliness and isolation, and to alleviate the workload of both formal and informal caregivers. This paper presents the first extensive survey and discussion on just how socially assistive robots have specifically helped this population, as well as the overall impact on health and the acceptance of such robots during the pandemic. The goal of this review is to answer research questions with respect to which SARs were used during the pandemic and what specific tasks they were used for, and what the enablers and barriers were to the implementation of SARs during the pandemic. We will also discuss lessons learned from their use to inform future SAR design and applications, and increase their usefulness and adoption in a post-pandemic world. More research is still needed to investigate and appreciate the user experience of older adults with SARs during the pandemic, and we aim to provide a roadmap for researchers and stakeholders. University of Toronto | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-09-13 | Cristina Getson, Goldie Nejat |
| T-Top, an open source interactive robot with advanced audio/video capabilities and interfacing ChatGPT Université de Sherbrooke, University of Sherbrooke | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2023-10-10 | Marc-Antoine Maheux, Mariam Fdil, Adina M. Panchea, Dominic Létourneau, Francois Michaud |
| Thesis project presentation - Impacts, uses and society axis of the Nanotechnologies and Nanosystems Laboratory (LN2)Lunchtime conference to learn more about the Impacts, Uses and Society axis of the LN2, which focuses on research and support for technology design projects targeting application markets in the mobility, health and urban sectors. The axis focuses on impact projects, and questions the dimensions of ethics, social acceptability, appropriation and adoption of technologies. | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2022-03-11 | Alex Paquette-Guay |
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