IEEE Telepresence 2024 – 2024 IEEE Conference on Telepresence

The 2024 IEEE Conference on Telepresence

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

November 16-17, 2024

Message from the General Chair

It is a great pleasure and honor to invite you to the IEEE Conference on Telepresence, the flagship conference of the IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Telepresence. TELEPRESENCE 2024 will be hybrid event, on November 16-17, 2024, with the in-person component located at Caltech, in Pasadena, California. The conference will provide a stimulating forum for researchers, educators, and practitioners to learn, share knowledge, report the most recent innovations and developments, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of telepresence systems and applications, telerobotics, human-machine interfaces, learning from humans, autonomy. In addition to technical sessions, TELEPRESENCE 2024 will hold keynote addresses, panel discussions, exhibits, and receptions to enrich the fruitful discussions among conference attendees. We will do our best to make this event an intellectually stimulating and enjoyable experience.

Paolo Fiorini, General Chair

TELEPRESENCE 2024 will be hybrid. We encourage in-person participation in Pasadena, but at the same time, we welcome on-line participation in the virtual tracks. We will provide real time transmission and recordings.

We will have regular papers, short late-breaking papers, and abstracts (for authors who do not yet have publishable results but want to present work in progress, applications, and new projects that have recently received funding, and to facilitate early feedback and foster collaborations), which will be published in the on-line conference proceedings available to registrants. We strongly encourage contributions from industry, illustrating technical solutions, and demonstrations, either as technical papers or as abstracts.

TELEPRESENCE Field Competition and Demos

The 2024 Field Telepresence Competition will focus on demonstrating telepresence capabilities aiding robotic vehicles navigate difficult high desert terrain, in particular going uphill and downhill on slopes with rocks, sand, and other natural obstacles. Participants are welcome to provide their own robotic vehicles.

A $5,000 for the winning team will be provided by the IEEE Telepresence Initiative; other prizes will also be available including prizes sponsored by Corporate Partners.

The filed competition will take place at Peterman Hill, in Lucerne Valley, California. More information to come soon on the Competition page.

We also welcome Telepresence Demos, to be presented during the Conference.

About the IEEE Telepresence Initiative

IEEE Telepresence is an IEEE Future Directions initiative launched in 2021 with a focus on advance telepresence technology that would enable a user’s remote presence at a different physical location: a) feeling as if being there, and b) having a similar effect as if being there – in appearance to others and in effectual action, via telerobotics.

IEEE Telepresence is creating a community for projects, events and activities on telepresence technologies – covering topics such as teleoperations – operating/manipulation equipment as if present in cabin/control room; Moving heavy equipment, driving agricultural machines, perform tele-medicine.

For more information see the webiste of the IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Telepresence

After three Workshops organized between 2021 and 2023,

2021 Workshop https://ieeetv.ieee.org/event/ieee-telepresence-workshop

2022 Symposium https://telepresence.ieee.org/events/2022-ieee-symposium-on-telepresence

and 2023

Workshop on Telepresence – IEEE SMC 2023

2024 will see the lights of the first IEEE Conference on Telepresence

Adrian Stoica, IEEE Telepresence Initiative Chair

Areas of Interest

Technological Infrastructure and Systems

Remote Collaboration
Virtual Reality (VR) Integration
Augmented Reality (AR) Applications
Haptic Feedback Technology
Real-Time Communication
3D Teleimmersion
Cross-Platform Compatibility
Teleoperation Systems
Low Latency Networking
Spatial Audio Technology
Wireless Control Systems
Sensor Fusion for Robotics
Robotic Actuation Techniques
Internet of Things (IoT) Integration
Cloud Computing for Telepresence
5G and Advanced Networking
Cybersecurity in Telepresence
Wearable Technology
Machine Vision and Perception
Digital Twins and Simulation
Environmental Sensing Technologies
Biometric Authentication
Virtual Meeting Spaces
Edge Computing in Telepresence
Quantum Computing Applications
Advanced Image and Video Processing
Collaborative Virtual Environments
Scalability Solutions for Telepresence Systems
Sustainable Design in Telepresence Technology

Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience

Gesture Recognition
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Voice User Interfaces (VUI)
Multi-Modal Interaction
Adaptive User Interfaces
Ergonomic Design
Assistive Technologies
Augmented Reality Interfaces
Virtual Environments Interaction
User Experience (UX) in HCI
Human-Centered Machine Learning
Behavioral Modeling
Interactive Machine Learning
Ethnographic Data Analysis
Cognitive Modeling
Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
Social Presence in Virtual Environments
User Interface (UI) Design
AI-driven Personalization
Data Privacy and Ethics
Accessibility in Telepresence

Autonomy and Intelligent Systems

Autonomous Navigation
Human-in-the-Loop Control
Telepresence Robots
Long-Distance Robotic Control
Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics
Autonomous Decision Making
Self-Learning Systems
Robotics and Automation
AI Ethics in Autonomy
Intelligent Control Systems
Swarm Intelligence
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Self-Regulating Systems
Predictive Analytics for Autonomy
Human Feedback in AI
Human-in-the-Loop Learning
Empirical Studies in Human Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Human Learning

Invited Guest Speakers

Prof Oussama Khatib

Stanford University, Director of Stanford Robotics Lab

Prof Allison Okamura

Stanford University

Prof Magnus Egerstedt

University of California, Irvine, Dean of Engineering

Prof Holly Yanco

University of Maryland, Lowell, Director NERVE Center

Dr John Blitch

LTC, USA RET, Former DARPA PM

Dr Neal Y Lii

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Prof Saeid nahavandi

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr Ming Hou

Defence Research and Development Canada

Dr Jeng Yen

NASA JPL

Robert Mueller

NASA, Kennedy Space Center

Important Dates

Deadline for Full Paper Submission
June 3, 2024:
Notification of paper acceptance
July 18, 2024
Deadline for late breaking submissions (short papers and abstracts)*
Short-papers (up to four pages) are published in IEEE Explore

Two-page abstracts are published on the website only, do not go in IEEE Explore

August 11, 2024:

Notification of Short papers and Abstracts Acceptance
Aug. 28, 2024:
Deadline for camera-ready final version of the papers (registration required). Deadline for early registration.
Sept.30, 2024:
Deadline for Late Registration
Nov. 13, 2024:

All Deadlines are 23:59 Los Angeles time