The 2024 IEEE Conference on Telepresence
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
November 16-17, 2024
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR LATE-BREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 11, 20204.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR LATE-BREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 11, 20204.
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
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
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Prof Magnus Egerstedt
University of California, Irvine, Dean of Engineering
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Prof Allison Okamura
Stanford University
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Prof Imre Rudas
U. Obuda, Senior Past President, IEEE SMC Society
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Prof Holly Yanco
University of Maryland, Lowell, Director NERVE Center
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Dr John Blitch
LTC, USA RET, Former DARPA PM
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Prof Witold Kinsner
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Dr Ming Hou
Defence Research and Development Canada
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Dr Neal Y Lii
DLR - German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics Autonomy and Teleoperation, Domain Head
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Prof Saeid nahavandi
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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Prof Levente Kovács
Rector, Obuda University, Hungary
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Dr Kamak Ebadi
Mars Analog Astronaut
IEEE Telepresence 2024Important Dates
All Deadlines are 23:59 Los Angeles time