Eva was invited to give a talk about ReThiCare at the Geriatronics Summit 2023 (organized by the Geriatronics Team from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) from the Technical University of Munich) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on July 2-3d. This was a great chance to present an overview of our approach as well as …
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Our Summary Brochure is Printed and Sent Out…
June/July 2023 we finally have all the printed brochures presenting the project to a broad audience. We generated 3 language versions, you see a proofprint of the Danish version on the right. We were a bit shocked, how much 1200 brochures really are! The majority have by now been sent out to our partners, partner …
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Weimar: lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022
We exhibited Bibo, our ‘dancing cup’ at the ‘Long Night of the Sciences‘ 2022 at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Bibo reminds people affected by dementia to drink, by lighting up in bright colours and gently moving whenever the user has not drunk a sip for a while. Over the last months, Kevin has spent a lot of …
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Vortrag auf der ACM CHI 2022 in New Orleans über unsere Studie ‘Sanne’ zur Wahrnehmung autonomer Roboter im Wohnumfeld
Unsere BUW Absolventin Sophie Grimme stellte auf der größten (und wichtigsten) jährlichen HCI-Tagung, der ACM CHI unseren Konferenzbeitrag Pet-Robot or Appliance? Care Home Residents with Dementia Respond to a Zoomorphic Floor Washing Robot vor. Das Paper basiert auf der Arbeit der SDU Partner zu Sanne und Sophie’s Master Theses über die Evaluation des Roboters in …