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Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience & Health
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
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"Socially Assistive Robotics for Hands-Off Rehabilitation" Presented by:
Dr. Maja Mataric
Professor and Director, Active Perception Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Neuroscience
Director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES)
Co-Director, Robotics Research Lab
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE)
University of Southern California http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/Location: UPC: Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Toyicha Chisom
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience & Health
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
University Calendar
"Socially Assistive Robotics for Hands-Off Rehabilitation" Presented by:
Dr. Maja Mataric
Professor and Director, Active Perception Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Neuroscience
Director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES)
Co-Director, Robotics Research Lab
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE)
University of Southern California http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/ The seminar is simultaneously presented at UPS and HSC, and available via live Web Cast at http://capture.usc.edu/college/Catalog/?cid=af180d48-ceff-42b9-a35c-eb199daed320 Information about all seminars can be found at http://bme.usc.edu/valero/seminar.htmLocation: UPC: Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238; HSC Location B16 Basement of the Norris Med
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Toyicha Chisom
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience & Health
Mon, Feb 11, 2008 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
University Calendar
"Socially Assistive Robotics for Hands-Off Rehabilitation"Presented by:
Dr. Maja Mataric
Professor and Director, Active Perception Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Neuroscience
Director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES)
Co-Director, Robotics Research Lab
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE)
University of Southern California
http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/The seminar is simultaneously presented at UPS and HSC, and available via live Web Cast at http://capture.usc.edu/college/Catalog/?cid=af180d48-ceff-42b9-a35c-eb199daed320Information about all seminars can be found at http://bme.usc.edu/valero/seminar.htmLocation: UPC: Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238; HSC Location B16 Basement of the Norris Med
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Toyicha Chisom
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Weekly Seminar Series on engineering Neuroscience & Health
Mon, Feb 25, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Weekly Seminar Series on
Engineering Neuroscience & Health
"Reaching with the Feet"Presented by:
Dr. Linda Fetters
Professor (Clinical Scholar)
Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/projects/rehab/researchers/fetters/The seminar is simultaneously presented at UPS and HSC, and available via live Web Cast at:
http://capture.usc.edu/college/Catalog/?cid=af180d48-ceff-42b9-a35c-eb199daed320
Information about all seminars can be found at http://bme.usc.edu/valero/seminar.htmLocation: UPC: Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238 and HSC B16 of the Norris Medical Library
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Toyicha Chisom
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Weekly Seminar Series on Eng. Neuroscience & Health/CRES
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Hosted by: Professor Mataric and Valero"Data-Driven Grasping and Manipulation"Speaker: Professor Nancy PollardPresenter Biography:
Nancy Pollard is an Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1994, where she performed research on grasp planning for articulated robot hands. Before joining CMU, Nancy was an Assistant Professor and part of the Computer Graphics Group at Brown University. She received the NSF CAREER award in 2001 for research on 'Quantifying Humanlike Enveloping Grasps' and the Okawa Research Grant in 2006 for "Studies of Dexterity for Computer Graphics and Robotics."Abstract:
Data captured from human performances of activities ranging from the everyday through the extraordinary has become widely accessible over the past 10 years. The ability to download or capture human motion and process it in real-time has led to many new algorithms and new ways of thinking about character animation and robot control. However, we do not yet know how to make the most effective use of this data. What is important about a given performance? How can it be modified to create realistic new scenarios? And what are the limits of this approach. Can we ever create behavior that could be called dexterous from a collection of observed performances?In this talk, I will focus on the problem of creating dexterous grasping and manipulation behaviors from observed performances. I will discuss how my ideas have changed over the past decade, as we have gone from the idea that a grasp is made up of contact points between the hand and object through consideration of the hand geometry, anatomical constraints, and dynamic properties to the observation that grasps often involve preparatory sensing and manipulation actions which we have shown can reduce the effort needed to acquire an object. Results in computer animation and robot control, as well as results from controlled human subjects experiments will be presented.Location: UPC: GFS 220
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Toyicha Chisom
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
