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Friday, October 9, 2015

2st Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of the NSF I/UCRC iPerform Center Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance

Synergy Park North, 3000 Waterview Parkway, Richardson, TX, 75080 [https://goo.gl/maps/eBnaWRQpaeT2]

Main Room [SPN 1.121] & NSF Meeting Room [SPN 1.107]

**Industry Representatives are recommended to bring their own laptops in order to access the LIFE forms online. 7:30-8:00a Participant Registration & Breakfast 8:00-8:30a Welcome Remarks

Fillia Makedon, Center Director & UT Arlington Site Director Ovidiu Daescu, UT Dallas Site Director Dr. Khosrow Behbehani, Dean of College of Engineering, UT Arlington Dr. Mark Spong, Dean of College of Engineering & Computer Science, UT Dallas Dr. Gopal Gupta, Dept. Head of Dept. of Computer Science, UT Dallas Dr. Hong Jiang, Chair of Computer Science & Engineering Dept., UT Arlington

8:30-8:45a Participant Introductions 8:45-9:15a Presentations by NSF I/UCRC Officers and Center Evaluator

Dr. Alex Schwarzkopf, NSF I/UCRC Program Manager (TBC) Dr. Dmitri Perkins, NSF I/UCRC Program Director Dr. Dee Hoffman, NSF I/UCRC Center External Evaluator

9:15-9:30a Break and Poster Session of Newly Proposed Projects 9:30-11:15a Reports of Ongoing Projects

15min talk with discussion

9:30 - 9:45a Framework for Full-Body VR Training Applications Ryan McMahan & C. Eubanks (UT Dallas) 9:45 - 10:00a VR for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Shawn Gieser & James LePage (UT Arlington & VANTHCS)

10:00 - 10:15a Audio Event Detection Yang Liu; presented by Chen Li (UT Dallas)

10:15 - 10:30a Robotic Based Rehabilitation Alex Lioulemes & Fillia Makedon (UT Arlington)

10:30 - 10:45a Smart Shoe Platform Dinesh Bhatia (UT Dallas) 10:45 - 11:00a Personalized & Adaptive Interaction Systems Kostas Tsiakas; presented by Mike Papakostas (UT Arlington)

11:00 - 11:15a Genetic Algorithm-Based Test Generation for Software Product Line Eric Wong; presented by Xuelin Li (UT Dallas)


11:15-11:45a Presentations by Universities Interested in Joining the iPerform Center

11:15 - 11:25a Northeastern University, Boston, MA Prof. Taskin Padir

11:25 - 11:35a University of South Florida Prof. Stephanie Carey

11:35 - 11:45a University of Texas at San Antonio Prof. John Quarles

11:45-1:10p Lunch Break and Poster Session of Newly Proposed Projects 1:10-2:40p New Project Proposals 15min talk with discussion

1:10 - 1:25p Framework for Assistive Portable Augmented Reality Applications Ryan McMahan (UT Dallas)

1:25 - 1:40p Wearables for Human-Robot Cooperation Chris McMurrough (UT Arlington)

1:40 - 1:55p Continuous Monitoring of Speech Activity During Regular Daily Activities Carlos Busso (UT Dallas)

1:55 – 2:10p Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Michalis Papakostas, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Fillia Makedon (NCSR & UT Arlington)

2:10 - 2:25p Smart Materials-Based Design and Manufacturing of Robotic Systems for Exoskeleton and

Prosthetics Yonas Tadesse (UT Dallas)

2:25 - 2:40p Co-Assess: An Assessment and Intervention System for Executive Function Disorders Fillia Makedon & Vassilis Athitsos (UT Arlington)

2:40-2:55p Break and Poster Session of Newly Proposed Projects 2:55-3:30p LIFE Form Review & Discussion for IAB Members 3:30-4:00p Industry Needs and Feedback on Center Research 4:00-4:30p NSF Closed Session with Industry 4:30-4:45p Summary & Closing Remarks, Adjourn iPerform Industry Members:

(1) Bosch; (2) Texas Instruments, Inc.; (3) Raytheon; (4) National Institute of Standards and Technology; (5) National Center for Scientific Research – Demokritos; (6) Barrett Technology, Inc. (7) Agillaire, Inc.; (8) Dallas Veteran Affairs Research Corp. (VANTHCS);


List of Posters of Newly Proposed Projects

1. Objective Assessment of the Progression of Parkinson Disease by Analysis of Facial Expression Naimeh Sadoughi & Carlos Busso (UT Dallas)

2. Smart Shoe Platform Dinesh Bhatia (UT Dallas)

3. Multifunctional Coatings for Performance Improvement of Dental and Orthopedic Implants

Izabelle de Mello Gindri, Danyal Siddiqui & Danieli Rodrigues (UT Dallas) 4. Converting Mobile App. UI Designs to Code with pixeltoapp.com

Siva Natarajan Balasubramania & Christoph Csallner (UT Arlington) 5. Easy-To-Use, General, and Accurate Multi-Kinect Calibration and its Application to Gait Monitoring for Fall Prediction

Aaron Staranowicz, C. Ray & Gian-Luca Mariottini (UT Arlington) 6. RescueMe: A Sensor-Based System to Recognize and Predict Risks for Seniors with Dementia

Maher Abujelala, Michalis Papakostas & Fillia Makedon (UT Arlington) 7. EyeOn: A Wireless Communication System for Activity Monitoring of Seniors with Dementia

Theodora Toutountzi, Chris Collander, Caleb Gentry, Eric Becker, Dimitrios Zikos & Fillia Makedon (UT Arlington) 8. iCare4u: A Personalized Virtual Coach and Serious-Games Assessment Framework

Alexandros Lioulemes, Benjamin Chebaa, Dylan Ebert, Dimitrios Zikos & Fillia Makedon (UT Arlington) 9. Point-of-Gaze Estimation for Control of Assistive Robotic Devices

Christopher McMurrough & Scott Phan (UT Arlington) 10. Augmented Reality for Human Robot Cooperation

Christopher McMurrough & Scott Phan (UT Arlington) 11. Co-Assess: An Assessment and Intervention System for Executive Function Disorders

Fillia Makedon & Vassilis Athitsos (UT Arlington)

12. MyArms: A Novel System for Immersive VR Interaction Dylan Ebert & Fillia Makedon

13. TOONLAND: An Immersive VR Game for Vocational Training and Assessment

Sanika Gupta & Fillia Makedon

14. Artificial Hand for Robots and Prosthetic Device Abhijeet Narwal, Lokesh Saharan, Lianjun Wu & Yonas Tadesse (UT Dallas)

15. Hybrid Energy Harvesting Device

Armita Hamidi, Seethal Jayasankar & Yonas Tadesse (UT Dallas)

16. Low-Cost Humanoid Robots for Homecare Akshay Potnuru, Mohammad Akram & Yonas Tadesse (UT Dallas)

17. Design and Implementation of Rehabilitative Powered Lower-Limb Orthoses

Calvin Stence, Hanqi Zhu & Robert Gregg (UT Dallas)

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