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Saplacan, Diana; Pajalic, Zada & Tørresen, Jim
(2023).
Should Social and Assistive Robots Integrated within Home- and Healthcare Services Be Universally Designed?
Cambridge Handbook on Law, Policy, and Regulations for Human-Robot Interaction.
Cambridge University Press.
ISSN 000-0-000-00000-0.
doi:
ISBN%209781009386661.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2023).
Presentation of the paper "Health Professionals’ Views on the Use of Social Robots with Vulnerable Users: A Scenario-Based Qualitative Study Using Story Dialogue Method".
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Robots as Welfare Technologies to Reduce Falls Amongst Older Adults: An Explorative Study from Norway.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Tutorial presentation. Title: "Robots and Society: Challenges and Opportunities within social Human-Robot Interaction" at
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Ongoing research with Social and Assistive Robots - Presentation for the National Commitee in Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT).
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Guest Lecture: Ongoing research with Social and Assistive Robots: Research projects, empirical examples, and theory.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
TIAGo wishes you welcome to a debate on the theme: Should a robot be involved in care tasks? (Norwegian title: TIAGo ønsker velkommen til en debatt med tema: Bør en robot involveres i omsorgsoppgaver?).
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Saplacan, Diana; Baselizadeh, Adel & Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Robot Demonstration: Meet TIAGo the robot! The robot showcases several tasks: brushing hair, putting the lipstick on, using a (plastic) knife, moving an object, carrying a bag.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
What do we talk about when we
talk about social robots vs. robot
sociomorphism ? Empirical examples from previous and ongoing research.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Ethics: Autonomous Technologies for All (ATA)?
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Sensing, acting and adapting in the real world.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Ethical Perspectives of Robotics and AI – How to develop preferable system?
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Research on health-related treatment and care technology – A technical and ethical view.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Tutorial: Ethical challenges for Autonomous and Multiagent Systems.
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Saplacan, Diana; Tørresen, Jim; Weng, Yueh-Hsuan & Li, Phoebe
(2022).
Tutorial: Robots and Society (RO-SO 2022) / Ethical perspectives and technical challenges and opportunities with care robots.
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Tørresen, Jim & Nakasawa, Atsushi
(2022).
Tutorial: Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization (ECUMAP).
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Research Ethics in AI and Robotics.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Keynote: Multi-Modal Sensing for Care Robots for Older People.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2022).
Tutorial: Ethical Challenges in Computational Intelligence Research.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Ethical Issues in Mobile Robots - Guest Lecture for Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), at the Faculty of Science and Technology, part of Human-Robot Interaction Course, Advanced Topics in Mobile robots.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Participatory Design and Human-Robot Interaction - An ethical and inclusive perspective on contemporary technologies.
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Dahl, Heidi Elisabeth Iuell; Mehmandarov, Rustam Karim; Harkestad, Inge & Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
AI and Ethics workshop.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2022).
Healthcare Professionals’ Attitudes towards the Organization of Care Services and the Adoption of Welfare Robots in Norway.
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Saplacan, Diana
(2021).
Challenges and Opportunities with AI-based Care Robots: An Ethical and Inclusive Approach.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Tutorial: Explainability, Trust and Ethics for Robots and Autonomous Systems.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
INTROMAT: INtroducing personalized TReatment Of Mental health problems using Adaptive Technology.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Tutorial: Ethical Considerations in Robotics and Automation.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Tutorial: Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Kunstig intelligens – allsidig i metoder og anvendelser.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Tutorial: Intelligent System Research – AI Ethical Challenges and Opportunities.
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Saplacan, Diana; Khaksar, Weria & Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
On Ethical Challenges Raised by Care Robots: A Review of the
Existing Regulatory-, Theoretical-, and Research Gaps.
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Noori, Farzan Majeed
(2021).
Recognition of Human Activities using UWB Radar and Deep Learning.
Show summary
The population of older adults are increasing every day, and the trend is expected to continue. With the help of advanced assistive technologies, we can provide them better healthcare. In this work, we provide a novel sensing approach based on Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors to recognize human activities and forecast future events. Previously, researchers focused on wearable or video sensors to detect a person’s behaviour. However, it is challenging for older people to wear devices 24/7. Similarly, vision-based sensors always carry privacy concerns. In contrast, a non-contact ambient sensor with no such privacy issues is XeThru ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. We collected the data using multiple modalities, such as UWB, depth images, thermal images, and actigraphy device, i.e. to collect heart rate (HR) for ground truth. The dataset comprised of the participants sitting on the sofa in normal situation. Afterwards, we recommended participants do some exercise for the sake of increasing HR. When the HR increased by more than 140 BPM, the users lie down on the floor in front of sensors until their HR reached a normal level. In this research, we classify normal vs abnormal situations using CNNs and LSTMs. Accuracy, precision, and recall are used as performance measures. We got 95% and 98% accuracies using CNNs and LSTMs, respectively. Furthermore, seven classes were introduced based on HR levels, as shown in Table1. We got promising results with LSTMs. A confusion matrix is shown in Figure 1. It was the first step towards classifying activities using UWB radar. In the future, we are planning to predict the future HR based only on UWB data, as it would be challenging for older people to wear actigraphy devices. Moreover, we will include other modalities which we did not include in our preliminary analysis.
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Saplacan, Diana; Tørresen, Jim; Mahler, Tobias & Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard
(2021).
Robots and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Perspectives on Integrating Robots in the Home- and Healthcare Systems and Services (RO-SO).
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The RO-SO tutorial is a continuation of the previous tutorials regarding robots, ethics, legal, and technical aspects. The tutorial is part of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2021). It focuses on providing an overview and discussing the ethical, legal, and technical perspectives, including challenges, dilemmas, and advantages and opportunities of integrating robots as part of home- and healthcare systems and services. The following two questions will guide the overall objective for this tutorial, but these will not limit the talks:
How does the meaning of good care change when we integrate robots as part of the home- and healthcare systems and services? What does good care mean when we integrate assistive robots as part of the home- and healthcare services?
What are some of the ethical, legal, and technical challenges and opportunities when integrating assistive care robots in the home- and healthcare services?
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Saplacan, Diana
(2021).
Ethics and Technology.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
How to achieve ethical artificial intelligence (AI) research and development?
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van Otterdijk, Marieke
(2021).
De Kennis van Nu” (The knowledge of now).
[TV].
Dutch national TV (NPO).
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Introducing a Multimodal Elderly Care Safety Alarm Robot.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Tutorial: Ethical Considerations in the Development and Use of Neural Information Processing Systems.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization: ACM UMAP 2020 Tutorial.
In Kuflik, Tsvi; Torre, Ilaria & Burke, Robin (Ed.),
Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
ISSN 978-1-4503-6861-2.
p. 390–391.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Tutorial: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities within Computational Intelligence System Development.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Ethical Consideration in Robotics and Intelligent Systems Research.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Addressing Ethical Challenges for Care Giving Robots.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Tutorial: Ethical Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Tutorial: Addressing Ethical Challenges within Evolutionary Computation Applications.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Intelligent Robots and Systems for Foundational and Applied Healthcare Research.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Sensing Human State with Application in Older People Care and Mental Health Treatment.
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Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Rhythm, Time and Motion.
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Noori, Farzan Majeed; Uddin, Md Zia & Tørresen, Jim
(2020).
Presentation on In-Home Emergency Detection Using an Ambient Ultra-Wideband Radar Sensor and Deep Learning.
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Schulz, Trenton Wade; Holthaus, Patrick; Amirabdollahian, Farshid & Koay, Kheng Lee
(2019).
Humans’ Perception of a Robot Moving Using a Slow in and Slow Out Velocity Profile.
In Kim, Jung H.; Tapus, Adriana; Sirkin, David; Jung, Malte & Kwak, Sonya S. (Ed.),
14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction – HRI’19.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
ISSN 978-1-5386-8555-6.
p. 594–595.
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Humans need to understand and trust the robots they are working with. We hypothesize that how a robot moves can impact people’s perception and their trust. We present a methodology for a study to explore people’s perception of a robot using the animation principle of slow in, slow out—to change the robot’s velocity profile versus a robot moving using a linear velocity profile. Study participants will interact with the robot within a home context to complete a task while the robot moves around the house. The participants’ perceptions of the robot will be recorded using the Godspeed Questionnaire. A pilot study shows that pilot participants notice the difference between the linear and the slow in, slow out velocity profiles, so the full experiment planned with participants will allow us to compare their perceptions based on the two observable behaviors.
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Noori, Farzan Majeed; Tørresen, Jim; Uddin, Md Zia & Riegler, Michael A.
(2023).
Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches for Human Activity recognition.
Universitetet i Oslo.
ISSN 1501-7710.
Full text in Research Archive
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Smart homes may be beneficial for people of all ages, but this is especially true for those with care needs, such as the elderly. To assist, monitor for emergencies, and provide companionship for the elderly, a substantial amount of research on human activity recognition systems has been conducted. Several algorithms for activity recognition and prediction of future events have been reported in the scientific literature. However, the majority of published research does not address privacy concerns or employ a variety of ambient sensors.
The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the progress in research relevant to activity recognition systems that use sensors that collect less privacy-related information. The following tasks are included in the work: assessment of sensors while keeping privacy concerns in mind, selection of cutting-edge classification methods, and how to fuse the data from multiple sensors. This thesis contributes to making progress on systems for analyzing human activity and state—or vital signs—for application in a mobile robot.
This dissertation examines two topics. First, it examines the privacy concerns associated with having a robot in the home. On a robot, an ultra-wideband (UWB) radar-based sensor and an RGB camera (for ground truth) were installed. An actigraphy device was also worn by the users for heart rate monitoring. The UWB sensor was selected to maintain privacy while monitoring human activities. Considering different ways to represent data from a single sensor is the second topic under investigation. That is, how data from multiple representations can be combined. For this purpose, we investigate various data representations from a single sensor’s data and analysis using cutting-edge deep learning algorithms.
The contributions provide considerations for equipping a mobile home robot with activity recognition abilities while reducing the amount of privacy-sensitive sensor data. The work also concerns examining the potential privacy restrictions that must be established for the analyzing systems. The thesis contains new methods for combining data from multiple information sources. To achieve our objective, convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks were applied and validated using conventional methods.
The conclusion of the thesis is that we can achieve good accuracy with limited sensors while maintaining privacy. It is, however, likely adequate for assisting healthcare personnel and caregivers in their work by indicating current activity status and measuring activity levels, providing alerts about abnormal activities. The results can hopefully contribute to older people being able to live alone in their homes with a larger chance of any unwanted events being quickly detected and notified to the caregivers and providers.
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Soma, Rebekka; Saplacan, Diana & Sikora, Magdalena Claudia
(2022).
Exploring personality and behavior with a robot table - a qualitative case study.
Universitetet i Oslo.
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Orten, Mathias Kramer & Tørresen, Jim
(2021).
Machine Ethics for Autonomous systems – Learning verifiable rules from the environment.
Universitetet i Oslo.
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Wang, Lina; Tørresen, Jim & Noori, Farzan Majeed
(2021).
Emergency Monitoring of Older People Using Multiple Sensors with Privacy in Consideration.
Universitetet i Oslo.
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Schulz, Trenton Wade
(2020).
Exploration of Moving Things in the Home.
Universitetet i Oslo.
ISSN 1501-7710.
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One question we ask ourselves as we age is, “who will help
us when we get older and need extra help?”
A natural answer to this question has, in the past, been
younger members of the family or nurses and other members
of the healthcare system. Future demographics of at least Europe
and North America, however, highlight a trend that there
will be a larger proportion of older, retired people than younger
who can take care of them. This could mean that when an older
person is in need of help, there is nobody to provide it.
One possible solution is to use information and communication
technology to help older people maintain their independence
and live at home longer. There are many ways this can be
achieved. This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on having a mobile robot
in the home that can monitor the vital signs of a person and
potentially contact experts in event of a problem.
A robot in the home opens many areas of research. This
dissertation, however, focuses on two areas. The first area we
examine is the privacy issues of a robot in the home. Many of
the technology solutions require collecting and processing data
about the home residents. How can we examine and discuss the
privacy issues related to a robot in the home? What trade-offs
must we take into consideration when a robot is in the home
environment?
The other area we examine is robot movement in the home,
how a robot should move, and how it affects people’s interaction
with a robot. Can other disciplines, such as film animation, help
make a robot move in ways that will lead to a better interaction?
Investigations into these aspects resulted in the four papers
that are presented in this dissertation. It also resulted in the following
additional contributions of: (1) a framework, with sample
dilemmas, for examining privacy issues in a home environment
with a robot. (2) a review of the use of animation techniques in
human-robot interaction user studies, (3) an examination of one
of the principles of animation and how it can be applied to a robot,
(4) a way of examining and categorizing movement between
a human and a robot in the home, and (5) an evaluation of how
applying this principle to a robot’s movement affects people’s
perception of the robot.
The contributions provide items that should be considered
when one is creating a robot for the home. Examining the potential
privacy boundaries that must be negotiated when a robot is
in the home can lead to privacy-preserving robots. In addition,
using animation techniques to move a robot may help in people
feeling safer around a robot, and this can make robots easier
to interact with in the home or anywhere we encounter them.
These contributions can lead to safe and trustworthy humanrobot
interaction with older people in the home.