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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Verónica Ahumada on Inclusive Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Telepresence Robots: Designing for an Inclusive Future” \nSpeaker:  Verónica Ahumada\, Assistant Professor\, Health Informatics and Human-robot Interaction\, Department of Pediatrics and MIND Institute\, UC Davis Health \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Innovative approaches to technology-mediated health care require holistic\, patient-centered interventions to address health challenges. Emerging telepresence and social robots have the potential to transform the health experiences of people who are restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. Use of these robots may promote social inclusion and enable connectedness within existing physical communities. This presentation will discuss telepresence\, virtual inclusion and the growing use of social telerobots in public spaces. This will include an overview of conceptual\, theoretical\, methodological and translational approaches to robot-mediated behavioral and developmental interventions. The Presence and Social Connectedness Framework will be explored as a tool to measure perceived connectedness and inform development of robot design features that facilitate presence and inclusion. This presentation will also explore the intersection of three disciplines (developmental psychology\, human-robot interaction\, human-computer interaction) that work jointly to move beyond discipline-specific approaches to address a common problem. \nSpeaker Bio: Verónica Ahumada is an assistant professor of health informatics and human-robot interaction in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California\, Davis. She directs the Technology and Social Connectedness (TASC) Lab in UC Davis Health’s Center for Health and Technology. Her work is focused on the use of assistive social robots and interactive technologies to improve health and developmental outcomes. Ahumada is the principal investigator of a $1 million National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative grant to create better telerobots for children restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. She is also co-PI on a $1.2 million UC Multicampus Research Projects and Initiatives project to create telemanipulation robots for health care worker safety and social inclusion of individuals at high infection risk. Her research encompasses collaborations among medicine\, health informatics\, robotics\, pediatrics\, computer science and learning sciences. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-veronica-ahumada-on-inclusive-robotics/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Spencer Castro on Human-machine Systems
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “The Multitasking Motorist: Interactions With Technology” \nSpeaker: Spencer Castro\, Assistant Professor\, Management of Complex Systems\, UC Merced \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Safety concerning human performance in complex multitask environments relies heavily upon the fundamental psychological principles of limited-capacity attention and top-down mechanisms of attention allocation. To develop a suitable model for distraction and safety with automobiles\, Spencer Castro’s team at UC Merced implements converging measures from established physiological\, behavioral and subjective proxies for effort in realistic goal-directed settings. In this talk\, Castro presents interesting examples of measuring\, modeling and attempting to predict effort in the lab\, in simulations and in automobiles on the road. The work measures fluctuations in cognitive workload for various manipulations of multitasking\, including instruction-induced task priority and intermittent secondary task cues. The results indicate that multiple parameters are necessary to capture variations in processing priority for people and machines\, with strong implications for safety. The most robust finding suggests that — contrary to strictly resource-limited theories of attention — strategic allocation of resources can drive performance more than a slowing in the rate of information processing. \nSpeaker Bio: Spencer Castro is an assistant professor in the Department of Management of Complex Systems at the University of California\, Merced. His research encompasses workload measurement and modeling in human-machine systems\, especially within human-computer interaction\, driving\, automation\, and data visualization and manipulation. He received his B.S. in science\, technology and society from Stanford University in 2011\, an M.S. in psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 2015\, and a Ph.D. in psychology in 2019 from the University of Utah. Castro received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship\, or GRFP\, in 2015 to study mobile device interactions while multitasking. In 2019\, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah to model real-time cognitive workload fluctuations in applied settings. These settings included conversations while driving and monitoring autonomous aerial vehicles. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
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