HRIAA
Human-Robot Interaction for Assistive Applications

01 November 2011

  • My PhD student, Amir Aly is accepted to the Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics 2011 that is held in Twente, The Netherlands, November 8-9th.

    • 11 October 2011

  • We appeared again in the Wired Magazine News. The name of the article is: When robots die: The existential challenges of human-robot interaction

    • 07 September 2011

  • Our HRIAA Project is in the Wired Magazine News. The name of the article is: The HRIAA Project: Behind the mission to help people and bots Kinect

    • 20 May 2011

  • We performed the experiments with Nao and 8 children suffering with autism for 10 days. We are now processing all the data that we have gathered.

  • Please look here at a child-robot interaction


    • 11 May 2011

  • Our Nao robot is in the Romanian newspapers. The experiments with children with autism have started.
    The robot mirroring human-user movements system can be visualize here:

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    • 05 May 2011

  • On 7th of May 2011, we start the experiments with Nao and children with autism in Romania at Transilvania Autism Association, in collaboration with the research group conducted by Prof. Daniel David from Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca.

    • 01 May 2011

  • My PhD students, Amir Aly and Manuel Birlo are both accepted to the Interdisciplinary Methods Spring School that is held in Budapest from 1st of May to 4th of May.

    • 06 March 2011

  • My PhD student, Amir Aly, is accepted to the Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop 2011 , a very selective event for young researchers in the HRI field.

    • 07 February 2011

  • We received the Shimmer Platform . We will start soon our work on realtime feedback in the assistive robotics context for stroke rehabilitation.

    • 14 January 2011

  • Prof. Adriana Tapus was part of the ParisTech Insight TV Show on "How the Human-Machine Interfaces Revolutionize Our Daily Lives".


    • 16 December 2010

  • Prof. Adriana Tapus was awarded the Tudor Tanasescu Award from the Romanian Academy for her research contributions to assistive robotics.


    • 21-24 October 2010

  • Prof. Adriana Tapus's picture is projected on the Pantheon for the exposition "1000 Chercheurs parlent de l'avenir" by Pierre Maraval .