IEEE Future Directions Symposium on Telepresence

November 9-10, 2022

Virtual Event

This website is a more frequently updated version of the official site of the IEEE Future Directions Symposium on Telepresence.

Please use the official page to register for the Symposium (after the dates are updated).

Decades after it was first used to control operations in hazardous environments and in space, telerobotics, combined with autonomy, is getting ready to significantly impact our lives in major ways. In 1980, MIT Professor and AI pioneer, Marvin Minsky’s words predicted a revolutionary change: “Telepresence is not science fiction. We could have a remote-controlled economy by the twenty-first century if we start planning right now”. While the progression was slower, several recent events, in particular the global pandemic, provided a boost to the ‘tele’ revolution.

From tele-health to tele-education and teleoperation products and applications that will irreversibly change how we work and live, telepresence will have a major impact on quality of life.

After a successful workshop in 2021 (https://ieeetv.ieee.org/event/ieee-telepresence-workshop),

IEEE Future Directions Committee is organizing a Symposium on Telepresence to facilitate research and developments.

The Symposium Agenda is as follows:

Note that times are Washington DC time (EST).  Meetings start daily at 12pm Washington DC (9am in Los Angeles)

 

Day Time Code Session Name Chair(s) POC email

Wednesday

Nov 9

12 pm

 D1A1 TeleEducation Carla Ramirez

carla.ramirez@tec.mx

12 pm D1A2 Telepresence Technologies and Applications Nikhil Deshpande and Gunter Nimeyer nikhil.deshpande@iit.it
2 pm D1B1 Ethics, Privacy, and Security Thomas Sheridan sheridan@mit.edu
2 pm D1B2 Human Experience and Data Analytics.  Entrepreneurship. Societal Impacts  Adrian Stoica a.stoica@ieee.org

Thursday

Nov 10

 12 pm D2A Roadmap towards a Telepresence Society Jan van Erp jan.vanerp@tno.nl
parallel sessions for Roadmap
2 pm D2B1 Telehealth and Telemedicine Farokh Atashzar f.atashzar@nyu.edu
2pm D2B2 ANA Avatar XPRIZE David Locke david@xprize.org

General Chairs: Jan van Erp and Saeid Nahavandi

Program Chairs: Adrian Stoica and Gunter Niemeyer

To participate please register (free) at (url link will be provided shortly)

For additional session information or special requests please email the session chairs. For general information or to be included in the discussions please email Adrian Stoica (a.stoica at ieee.org) before October 22, 2022

Detailed Program

D1A1: TeleEducation (Chair: Carla Ramírez)
  • Adrian Adascalitei Technical University" Gh. Asachi" Iași, Romania, Implementation of Blended Teaching and Learning,  including Online Laboratories
  • Lorenza Abbate, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Telepresence Robots for Educational Settings: a Model to Support Virtual Inclusion
  • Agustin Barrera, Scanda Group, Augmented Reality in Education
  • Susana Catalina Peña Parás, Tecnologico de Monterrey,  Mexico, Tec Week at Hall Immersive Room.
  • Antonio Negrete Juárez , Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 100% First class in the Metaverse of the Tec Virtual Campus
  • Carla Ramírez, Mexico, Reflections for the Future in Tele Education
D1A2: Telepresence Technologies and Applications (Chairs: Nikhil Deshpande and Gunter Nimeyer)
  • Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Meta, USA,
  • Jeff Delmerico / Juan Nieto MR Labs, Microsoft
D1B1: Ethics, Privacy and Security (Chair: Thomas Sheridan)
  • Peter Hancock, University of Central Florida
  • Dana Yoerger and Allisa Dalpe, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
  • Woodrow Barfield,University of Washington
  • Jacob Boyd, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Thomas Sheridan, MIT
D1B2: Human Experience and Data Analytics.  Entrepreneurship. Societal Impacts  (Chair: Adrian Stoica)
  • Jeff Linnell, Formant, USA
  • Yaoping Hu, U. Calgary
  • Tom Gedeon, ANU, Australia
  • Maria Palombini, IEEE, USA
  • Tamas Heidegger, Hungary
  • Tariq Rahim Soomo, Pakistan
D2A: Roadmap towards a Telepresence Society (Chair: Jan van Erp )
Work groups, formed at the beginning of the meeting, with  registrants to the session.
Some of the confirmed participants include Carla Ramirez, Leila Takayama, Terry Fong, Gunter Niemeyer, Tiago Falk, Adrian Stoica, Farokh Atashzar
D2B1: Telehealth and Telemedicine (Chair: Farokh Atashzar)
D2B2:ANA Avatar XPRIZE (Chair: David Locke)
  • ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition Presentation - Summary of the Challenge, including Finals results and data
  • Panel #1: ANA Avatar XPRIZE Judge Panel - several Judges, Discussion on the Prize experience and findings
  • Panel #2: ANA XPRIZE Winning Team Panel Three of the winning teams from Finals to discuss their experiences. Speakers for this panel are TBD util the winners are announced on Nov. 5th.