ニュース & イベント
会場：ひびきのキャンパス 講義室２
題目：「Objective Measurement of Human's Full Body Motion and Emotion for Medical and Robotics Applications」
講師： Dr. Salvatore Sessa (International Center for Science and Engineering Programs, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
I believe that only if it is possible to measure human's full body Motions and Emotions then we can naturally interact with robots and understand deeply human being. In this presentation, I will briefly introduce the research conducted at Waseda University, Takanishi-laboratory. In particular, I will focus my discussion on the Waseda Bioinstrumentation systems developed on purpose for the objective evaluation of motion and emotion in medical and robotics applications. I will show several medical applications in which the objective evaluation of motion is fundamental such as surgical gesture evaluation and assessment of older adults mobility. Furthermore, I will explain how motion analysis and gesture recognition can improve and promote a natural human-robot interaction showing several examples of interactions between the anthropomorphic musical robots developed in Waseda University and their human partners. Waseda Bioinstrumentation systems has been also used for emotion measurement and detection. In this presentation, I will focus on "laugh" because is a direct and universal form of social interaction associated with positive emotion and physical well-being but sometimes it is a symptom of behavioral or neurological disorders. Objectively measure physiological signals that play the most important role in laughter and integrate several non-invasive sensors as a unique tool specifically designed for medical application and robot interaction is a big challenge.
