Program of Fall 2015 Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting

 Friday, October 9, 2015
2 Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of the NSF I/UCRC iPerform Center
Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance
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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)
Wifi Network: CometNet Username: Guest-iperform
I/UCRC-LIFE Portal: www.iucrc.com
LIFE Portal Password: iPerformFall2
Password: r56tx2fv
iperform.uta.edu 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);
Wifi Network: CometNet Username: Guest-iperform
I/UCRC-LIFE Portal: www.iucrc.com
LIFE Portal Password: iPerformFall2
Password: r56tx2fv
iperform.uta.edu 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)
Wifi Network: CometNet Username: Guest-iperform
I/UCRC-LIFE Portal: www.iucrc.com
LIFE Portal Password: iPerformFall2
Password: r56tx2fv
iperform.uta.edu