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The final i-Walk project Workshop was held with success on Monday 13/12/2021 online via the Webex platform. The workshop included presentations with the i-Walk project results and conclusions from members of the project’s teams as well as presentations from external invited researchers. A panel discussion was also organized which discussed all possible future directions of the i-Walk project and exploitation of its results.

The i-Walk workshop was held with success on Wednesday 26/02/2020 at the Athena Research and Innovation Center premises. The workshop included presentations with the i-Walk results and its future directions from members of the project’s teams as well as presentations from external invited researchers.

The workshop will start at 9:30 and will last till 15:30. 

Ιnvited Speakers:

     -   Prof. Dr. Rosalee Wolfe,  DePaul University, Chicago, USA: "Exploiting signing avatar technology in advanced HCI"
     -  Aikaterini Papadimitriou, University of Thessaly: "Sign Language Recognition"

The event is open to participants. 

The i-Walk project and its results were presented in IROS2019 by ICCS.

An invited talk was given by P. Maragos at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in Sep 2019, titled Multisensory Video Processing and Learning For Human-Robot Interaction.man communication

ILSP/Athena RC gave a key-note speech to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019, 23-25 May 2019, Vienna, Austria:
Speaker: Eleni Efthimiou
Title: Increasing user acceptance by augmented robot intelligence: the lesson we got from the semantics of human communication

ILSP/Athena RC organized a workshop titled “AR4U Workshop: The 2nd Workshop on Assistive Robots: Technological Challenges and the User Perspective”, in the context of the 12th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference, held on the Island of Rhodes, Greece, June 5-7, 2019. Workshop link:  http://www.petrae.org/workshops/AR.html

ILSP/Athena RC demonstrated i-Walk in the 84th International Expo of Thessaloniki, Greece 7 Sep- 15 Sep 2019.

ILSP/Athena RC and ICCS demonstrated the i-Walk project in the European Researchers’ Night 2019.