BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230125T210213Z UID:8F41A201-838E-4DD1-96E2-19C743746A66 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20230118T183000 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20230118T203000 DESCRIPTION:Event Details\n\nFull Title: "Socially Assistive Robotics Right Now: Personalized Embodied Systems for In-Home Support of Health\, Wellne ss\, Education\, and Training"\n\nThe nexus of advances in robotics\, natu ral language processing\, and machine learning has created opportunities f or personalized robots in a variety of domains of daily life. The current pandemic has both caused and exposed unprecedented levels of health & well ness\, education\, and training needs worldwide. Socially assistive roboti cs has the potential to address those needs through personalized and affor dable support that complements human care. This talk will discuss human-ro bot interaction methods for socially assistive robotics that utilize multi -modal interaction data and expressive and persuasive robot behavior to mo nitor\, coach\, and motivate users to engage in health\, wellness\, educat ion and training activities. Methods and results will be presented that in clude modeling\, learning\, and personalizing user motivation\, engagement \, and coaching of healthy children and adults\, stroke patients\, Alzheim er's patients\, and children with autism spectrum disorders\, in short and long-term (month+) deployments in schools\, therapy centers\, and homes. Research and commercial implications and pathways will be discussed.\n\nTh is meeting will be held in person at the Knobbe Martens' Irvine offices. T he doors will open at 6:30 PM for networking. Announcements and the presen tation will begin at 7:00 PM. Parking validation will be provided to atten dees.\n\nAbout the Speaker Dr. Maja Mataric´\n\nProf. Maja Mataric´ is C han Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience \, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC)\, foundin g director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center\, and Interim Vice President of Research. She received a PhD and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence MIT\, and BS in Computer Science from the Uni versity of Kansas. She is a Fellow of the AAAS\, IEEE\, AAAI\, and ACM\, t he Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation\, the Okawa F oundation Award\, NSF Career Award\, MIT TR35 Innovation Award\, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award\, and the USC Remarkabl e Woman Award\, among others. Prof. Mataric´ is the author of the popular textbook "The Robotics Primer" and has published extensively (h-index 100 \; 39\,594 citations as of 1/30/21). She has served on a number of advisor y boards\, including the National Science Foundation CISE Division\, the C omputing Community Consortium (CCC) Council\, Willow Garage\, and Evolutio n Robotics.\n\nProf. Mataric´ has made a series of pioneering contributio ns to the field of robotics. Her early work was in robot navigation and ma pping\; she then made contributions to multi-robot coordination and swarm control. Next\, she did some of the earliest work in robot learning from d emonstration. She is now best known for founding the field of socially ass istive robotics\, where her research is developing human-robot interaction algorithms and methods for supporting behavior change in convalescence\, rehabilitation\, training\, and education. Her research has developed robo t-assisted therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders\, stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors\, and individuals with Alzheimer's di sease and other forms of dementia\, and has deployed robots in complex env ironments including homes\, nursing homes\, hospitals\, and classrooms for weeks and months at a time\, collecting unprecedented datasets that enabl ed novel models and personalization strategies. She is also co-founder of Embodied\, Inc. where she served as chief science officer in 2016-2018\; i n May 2020 Embodied launched Moxie\, an in-home socially assistive robot f or children.\n\nProf. Mataric´’s university leadership experience inclu des serving as the USC Interim Vice President of Research (2020-present)\, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Vice Dean of Research (2006-2019)\, and the elected President of the USC faculty and the Academic Senate (2006-20 07).\n\nProf. Mataric´ and her work have been featured in The New Yorker\ , the New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Popular Science\, Nationa l Geographic\, LA Times\, Scientific American\, the BBC News\, LA Times\, and in the documentary movie “Me & Isaac Newton”\, among others.\n\nMo re information about Prof. Mataric´ can be found [here.](https://speakers .acm.org/speakers/mataric%C2%B4%20_14588)\n\nCo-sponsored by: OC ACM [Actu al Host] and Knobbe Martens [Physical Host]\n\nAgenda: \n6:30 PM Networkin g at physical meeting location\n7:00 PM Announcements and Presentation wit h Q&A\n8:00 PM Follow-up quesitons for presenter and networking\n8:30 PM M eeting Adjourned\; and possible Start of regular Zoom session with Speaker .\n\n2040 Main St \, Ste 14\, Irvine\, California\, United States LOCATION:2040 Main St \, Ste 14\, Irvine\, California\, United States ORGANIZER:AWBrown@USC.edu SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:"Socially Assistive Robotics Right Now" IEEE OCCS & OC ACM Mtg URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342929 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;" ><strong>Event</strong> <strong>Details&nbsp\;</strong></span></p>\n<p><st rong>Full Title: "Socially Assistive Robotics Right Now: Personalized Embo died Systems for In-Home Support of Health\, Wellness\, Education\, and Tr aining"</strong></p>\n<p>The nexus of advances in robotics\, natural langu age processing\, and machine learning has created opportunities for person alized robots in a variety of domains of daily life. The current pandemic has both caused and exposed unprecedented levels of health &amp\; wellness \, education\, and training needs worldwide. Socially assistive robotics h as the potential to address those needs through personalized and affordabl e support that complements human care. This talk will discuss human-robot interaction methods for socially assistive robotics that utilize multi-mod al interaction data and expressive and persuasive robot behavior to monito r\, coach\, and motivate users to engage in health\, wellness\, education and training activities. Methods and results will be presented that includ e modeling\, learning\, and personalizing user motivation\, engagement\, a nd coaching of healthy children and adults\, stroke patients\, Alzheimer's patients\, and children with autism spectrum disorders\, in short and lon g-term (month+) deployments in schools\, therapy centers\, and homes. Rese arch and commercial implications and pathways will be discussed.</p>\n<p>T his meeting will be held in person at the Knobbe Martens' Irvine offices. The doors will open at 6:30 PM for networking. Announcements and the prese ntation will begin at 7:00 PM. Parking validation will be provided to atte ndees.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline\;">A bout the Speaker</span> Dr. Maja Mataric&acute\;</strong></p>\n<p>Prof. Ma ja Mataric&acute\; is Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience\, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern Cal ifornia (USC)\, founding director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Syste ms Center\, and Interim Vice President of Research. She received a PhD and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence MIT\, and BS in Comput er Science from the University of Kansas. She is a Fellow of the AAAS\, IE EE\, AAAI\, and ACM\, the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for I nnovation\, the Okawa Foundation Award\, NSF Career Award\, MIT TR35 Innov ation Award\, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award\ , and the USC Remarkable Woman Award\, among others. Prof. Mataric&acute\; is the author of the popular textbook "The Robotics Primer" and has publi shed extensively (h-index 100\; 39\,594 citations as of 1/30/21). She has served on a number of advisory boards\, including the National Science Fou ndation CISE Division\, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council\, Willow Garage\, and Evolution Robotics.</p>\n<p>Prof. Mataric&acute\; has made a series of pioneering contributions to the field of robotics. Her e arly work was in robot navigation and mapping\; she then made contribution s to multi-robot coordination and swarm control. Next\, she did some of th e earliest work in robot learning from demonstration. She is now best know n for founding the field of socially assistive robotics\, where her resear ch is developing human-robot interaction algorithms and methods for suppor ting behavior change in convalescence\, rehabilitation\, training\, and ed ucation. Her research has developed robot-assisted therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders\, stroke and traumatic brain injury survivo rs\, and individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia\ , and has deployed robots in complex environments including homes\, nursin g homes\, hospitals\, and classrooms for weeks and months at a time\, coll ecting unprecedented datasets that enabled novel models and personalizatio n strategies. She is also co-founder of Embodied\, Inc. where she served a s chief science officer in 2016-2018\; in May 2020 Embodied launched Moxie \, an in-home socially assistive robot for children.</p>\n<p>Prof. Mataric &acute\;&rsquo\;s university leadership experience includes serving as the USC Interim Vice President of Research (2020-present)\, USC Viterbi Schoo l of Engineering Vice Dean of Research (2006-2019)\, and the elected Presi dent of the USC faculty and the Academic Senate (2006-2007).</p>\n<p>Prof. Mataric&acute\; and her work have been featured in The New Yorker\, the N ew York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Popular Science\, National Geogr aphic\, LA Times\, Scientific American\, the BBC News\, LA Times\, and in the documentary movie &ldquo\;Me &amp\; Isaac Newton&rdquo\;\, among other s.</p>\n<p>More information about Prof. Mataric&acute\; can be found <a hr ef="https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/mataric%C2%B4%20_14588">here.</a></p >\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><span class="aBn" tabindex=" 0" data-term="goog_557201553"><span class="aQJ">6:30 PM Networking at phys ical meeting location<br /></span></span><span class="aBn" tabindex="0" da ta-term="goog_557201553"><span class="aQJ">7:00 PM</span></span> Announcem ents and Presentation with Q&amp\;A<br />8:00 PM Follow-up quesitons for p resenter and networking<br />8:30 PM Meeting Adjourned\; and possible Star t of regular Zoom session with Speaker.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR