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HOBBIT at the "Lange Nacht der Museen" , October 3, 2015
Long Night of the Museums with HOBBIT: the Technische Museum Wien presented HOBBIT as a special exhibit on Oct. 3, 2015 with a special introduction and featured on Austrian TV in “Wien heute”.
HOBBIT at the Event "Active and Assisted Living: On the way from Laboratory to Real Life , September 15, 2015
The HOBBIT final prototype was presented at the Event "Active and Assisted Living: On the way from Laboratory to Real Life [Auf dem Weg vom Labor ins Leben]" organized by the Viennese Chamber of Commerce (Wiener Wirtschaftskammer) and TUW on 15 September 2015 with approx. 100 attendees
HOBBIT at the Vienna Research Festival
HOBBIT was presented to the Vienna Public at the Vienna Research Festival.
The Vienna Research Festival took place on September 12th and 13th, 2015 at the Vienna Naschmarkt for the fourth time.
HOBBIT at Pioneers Festival , May 28 and 29, 2015
The HOBBIT team presented the robot at the Pioneers Festival 2015 in the Wiener Hofburg on May 28 and 29. The voices have been clear at the event: robots will be evade more and more areas of human life. The CEO of Hanson-Robotics was very clear, robots will assist and eventually replace care personnel.
Strategic Workshops in Sweden
The project member Susanne Frennert (PhD candidate) has been invited to two strategic workshops in Stockholm, Sweden (16 March and 17 June 2015) to form the innovation agenda for Social Robotics in Sweden.
HOBBIT at the i2c innovation event , February 20, 2015
HOBBIT attended at the i2c innovation event on February 20, 2015 and the HOBBIT exploitation team wins the "Commercial Viability Award"
HOBBIT Prototype 2 tested in first apartments
The new HOBBIT for the user trials at home
HOBBIT is learning a favourite user object (the red mug): The robot holds out the turntable, which it extracted from its side, to the user. It then asks the user to place the object on the turntable and rotates it with its hand. After obtaining a detection model from the views, HOBBIT can search for the object in the environment.
Several publications presented HOBBIT at HCII 2014, June 22-27, 2014
HOBBIT developments created very positive reactions. Noticeable interest comes from the Georgia Tech "Aware Home Research Initiative" . We are planning for scientific collaboration as well as potentially test the robot in the Georgia Tech HomeLab
HOBBIT presented at ISR 2014 in Munich as part of AUTOMATICA on June 3.
Markus Vincze presented the HOBBIT robot to a wide audience in June at the AUTOMATICA fair. Specific interest came from ROBOTins®. They are interested to test HOBBIT in Dutch homes
HOBBIT at the uDay, May 16, 2014
The uDay took place on May 16, 2014 at the FH Vorarlberg. The conference focuses on ssistants technology for assisted living.
We had our own exhibition area, among other companies from the fields of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), to present the HOBBIT robot.
Furthermore some functionalities were tested and we answered questions such as:
- The idea of the project
- The actual status of the project
The attendees of the uDay were very interested in HOBBIT and the response has been extremely positive.
Workshop on "Attention Models in Robotics: Visual Systems for Better HRI"
The workshop will take place on March 3, 2014 at the 9th Annual Conference for basic and applied research in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI 2014) in Bielefeld, Germany
Workshop on "Socially assistive robots for the aging population: Are we trapped in stereotypes?"
The workshop will take place on March 3, 2014 at the 9th Annual Conference for basic and applied research in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI 2014) in Bielefeld, Germany
AAL Kongress Wohnen - Pflege - Teilhabe "Besser leben durch Technik" , January 21-22, 2014
The 7th Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Conference in Berlin, Germany is based on the theme "Wohnen - Pflege - Teilhabe".
The AAL conference offers an outstanding platform for the field of innovation AAL. Furthermore AAL conference facilitates an exchange of information and knowledge between researchers and developers, manufacturers and users, end users and representatives from government, economy and associations.
4th Review Meeting, December 13, 2013
On December 13 the HOBBIT project organises the 4th Review Meeting in Brussel. The main topics are:
- PT2 User requirements and mutual care
- PT2 design and scripts
- User-robot dialogue and behaviour coordination
- Dissemination and exploitation
- Project management
Austrian Robotics Day, November 29, 2013
HOBBIT was presented at the Austrian Robotics Day on November 29, 2013.
For more infos about the Austrian Robotics Day click herePflegekongress 2013 - "Pflege ohne Grenzen - Voneinander lernen - Miteinander arbeiten" ,
November 28-29, 2013
Markus Vincze will give a talk on "HOBBIT - Roboter als Untertstützung zu Hause" at the Pflegekongress 2013 on November 29, 2013.
Pflegekongress 2013 takes place on November 28-29, 2013 at the Austria Center Vienna.
For more infos about the Pflegekongress 2013 click here (in German)
HOBBIT project at the Dachverband Wiener Sozialeinrichtungen, November 2013
AAF presented the HOBBIT project at the Dachverband Wiener Sozialeinrichtungen [holding organization of Viennese Social Services] within a business executive Jour Fixe in November 2013. This meeting marked a good opportunity to inform people from diverse care facilities about the HOBBIT project, to discuss an implementation in real life situations and to gain useful input for the target product. The participants were very interested in actual feedback, and response of the users and the presentation were a good possibility for collecting contacts to potential primary and secondary users for PT2.
Blue Danube Robotics at the Pioneers Festival , October 29-30, 2013
Blue Danube Robotics is a start-up company founded by TU graduates Walter Wohlkinger and Michael Zillich. The aim of Blue Danube Robotics is to launch affordable robots that help persons with physical disabilities.
Blue Danube Robotics will present the first components of their assistive robots at this year's Pioneers Festival (October 29 to 30) at the Hofburg, Vienna. These components have been developed as part of the HOBBIT project and will be integrated into the next HOBBIT platform.
Furthermore the two founders will discuss the opportunities and difficulties of European and American startup's in the field of robotic with well-known greats from the fields of robotics, like Rodney Brooks (iRobot, Rethink Robotics) and Steve Cousins (Willow Garage) at the podiums discussion "Robolution ? Rise of the Robotics Startups" on wednesday. The podium discussion will be chaired by Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics)
Workshop on Taking Care of Each Others
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ICSR 2013, October 27-29, 2013
With high participation and interesting discussions. Presentations can be downloaded here.
The workshop will take place on October 27, 2013 at ICSR 2013 For more informations about the workshop click here
ULUND presented the results from the HOBBIT PT1 user trials at a seminar at the open
"Certec Information Day" on Rehabilitation Engineering and Design 23 October 2013 in Lund,
Sweden. 90 older persons and health care students among others attended the seminar
Immediately after the PT1 trials ULUND prepared and held a seminar and PT1 demo for 20 of the 40 interested old persons that wanted to participate in the PT1 trials, but were not selected or currently did not fulfil all inclusion criteria.
ACROSS Workshop on Cooperative Cognitive and Robotic Systems , September 27, 2013
The HOBBIT concept and developments were discussed at the ACROSS Workshop on September 27. Participants were astonished about good perception of robot by older persons. Cultural differences have been discussed and it was challenged, if the finding of no differences will hold for PT2. Participants were impressed by the complexity of the system as compared to state-of-the-art robots with elderly people.
HOBBIT Clustering Meeting , September 26, 2013
"HOBBIT - The Mutual Care Robot" was presented at the Clustering Meeting at the Foundation for Research &
Technology - Hellas in Heraklion. The aim of the clustering event was to bring together European projects
for demonstrations, presentations of innovative solutions, and discussions of potential synergies and cooperation.
Participants were interested in the HOBBIT project especially because of the user centered approach, ethical issues
were discussed and concerning experiences have been shared.
The clustering event program and the presentations can be found here
The presentations can be found in the downloads directory of the Reaction website
Slides can be downloaded here
ULUND has been invited to a national innovation conference in Stockholm on 17 September 2013 about forming future strategies for the life of older persons where the human is in the centre. The conference was arranged by "The Daily Medicine" (the leading newspaper for the healthcare sector) and "VINNOVA" (Sweden's innovation agency).
Presentation of the HOBBIT project by AAF as part of the master course "Geriatrics", June 2013
In June 2013, the HOBBIT project was presented by AAF as part of the master course "Geriatrics", which is organized and conducted by the Danube University Krems, in collaboration with the Haus der Barmherzigkeit. The attendees, medical doctors in advanced education, were impressed with the engagement, the possibilities and the combination of functions regarding the usage of HOBBIT. Ethical issues have also been discussed. The participants encouraged to implement the presentation as a permanent part of the course.
Workshop on Human Robot Interaction at ICRA , May 10, 2013
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) for Assistance and Industrial Robots. Scientific Knowledge, Standards and Regulatory Framework. How to design robots for interacting with human in the real world?
AAF invited to the "Aging and Technology" Discussion Forum, which was an organized professional discussion round. The event was circulated via press and had an attendance of over 100 persons. This event was also used for recruiting for PT2.
User Trials in Sweden, ULUND, 15. April - 2. May 2013
From April 15 to May 2 User Trials took place at ULUND, Sweden.
Invitation to the panel " Alter schützt vor Technik nicht?!", April 29, 2013
The panel takes place on April 29, 2013. Studio 44, Rennweg 44, 1030 WienMore infos about the panel here (in German)
www.hobbit-project.eu accessible to all, April 25, 2013
As of 25 April 2013 the new version of the Hobbit web page was launched. The consortium endeavours to ensure that these webpages comply with the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
"RoboTalks - ein Ausflug in die Welt der Robotik", April 4, 2013
On April 4, 2013 RoboTalks took place at the TU Graz and Lara Lammer presented HOBBIT.
read an article about the event here (in German)
EuroNews - HOBBIT Robot Help for the Elderly, March 20, 2013
HOBBIT appears on EuroNews!
The EuroNews article of HOBBIT has been translated in the meantime and is online in nine languages with over 10.000 viewings on youtube.
First user trials at AAF, Vienna, March 14, 2013
Teams of AAF, FORTH and TUW
Two users with the robot
Live-Demonstration and press conference, Vienna , March 14, 2013
On March 14 the first prototype of HOBBIT was presented at the Haus der Barmherzigkeit.
A team from ORF (Austrian national public service broadcaster), APA (Austria Press Agentur),
Radio Wien and journalists from technology, health and care participated at this event.
Program
13. March 201313:00-14:00: APA photoshooting
14. March 2013
7:00 Interview for Radio Wien Morgenjournal
8:00 Arrival ORF Team
9:45 Arrival Journalists
10:10 Press Conference
- Welcome and introduction of the speakers by Christian Zwittnig - Haus der Barmherzigkeit
- Dr. Christoph Gisinger - Institute Director, Haus der Barmherzigkeit
- DI Dr. Markus Vincze - Project coordinator, Technische Universität Wien
- Mag. Alexandra Schmid - Head of HB Akademie für Altersforschung
HOBBIT 1:
- Object learning
- Cleaning the floor
- Fall detection
HOBBIT 2:
- Autonomous navigation
10:50 Questions and Answers session
11:00 End press conference
Antonis Argyros, Invited lecturer, Workshop on Mathematics and Computer Science, Pankritio High School, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 6, 2013
HOBBIT Pilot tests, Vienna (TUW) February 19-20, 2013
Two pilot users tested HOBBIT. Both were very interested in using a robot at home. One pressed spontaneously the reward button, the other did not want to stop playing with HOBBIT.
HOBBIT 6th Project Meeting, Vienna (TUW), February 18, 2013
From February 18th to 20th the HOBBIT project organises the 6th project meeting. The main Topics are Pilot Trials at AAF and Scripts and Questionnaires.
HOBBIT Review & Project Meeting, Vienna (TUW), December 17-20, 2012
From December 17th to 20th the HOBBIT project organises the Review & Project Meeting. The main topics are ideas for the design and mutual care decisions.
"Certec Information Day" on Rehabilitation Engineering and Design October 24, 2012
The HOBBIT project was presented at the annual full-day "Certec Information Day" on Rehabilitation Engineering and Design 24 October 2012. Approximately 350 persons attended this event. There were seminars and exhibitions.
Certec Information Days appeal to a broad target group. This includes people who work in different branches of health care and social services, the schools, planning and administration. But also to people with disabilities and their relatives, to social workers, personal assistants, doctors, teachers, case workers, students, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists and politicians.
HOBBIT 2nd Implementation Meeting, Vienna (TUW), October 17-19 2012
From October 17th to 19th the HOBBIT project organises the 2nd Implementation Meeting
HOBBIT Biannual Project Meeting, FORTH, Heraklion, September 16-19, 2012
From September 16th to 19th the HOBBIT project organises the Biannual Project Meeting
HOBBIT 1st Implementation Meeting, Vienna (TUW), August 6-7, 2012
From August 6th to 7th the HOBBIT project organises the 1st Implementation Meeting
HOBBIT Review Meeting, Brussel, June 25-27, 2012
From June 25th to 27th the HOBBIT project organises a Review Meeting
HOBBIT Biannual Project Meeting, Lund University, Lund, April 23-24, 2012
From April 23th to 24Th the HOBBIT project organises the Biannual Project Meeting
HOBBIT Technical Meeting, Vienna, February 9, 2012
On February 9 the HOBBIT project organises the HOBBIT Technical Meeting
HOBBIT Kickoff Meeting, Vienna (TUW), November 4-6, 2011
From November 4th to 6th the HOBBIT project organises the HOBBIT Kickoff Meeting
Funding programme: EC Seventh Framework Programme Grant Agreement no.: 288146 Duration: 36 months Starting date: 01/11/2011
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 288146.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this document are solely those of the authors. The Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
