2022 IEEE Future Directions Symposium on Telepresence

09-10 November 2022 – Virtual Event

Videos of the 2022 IEEE Future Directions Symposium are now available on-demand. Access the video recordings.

Decades after it was first used to control operations in hazardous environments and in space, telerobotics, combined with autonomy, is getting ready to significantly impact our lives in major ways. In 1980, MIT Professor and AI pioneer, Marvin Minsky’s words predicted a revolutionary change: “Telepresence is not science fiction. We could have a remote-controlled economy by the twenty-first century if we start planning right now”. While the progression was slower, several recent events, in particular the global pandemic, provided a boost to the ‘tele’ revolution.

From tele-health to tele-education and teleoperation products and applications that will irreversibly change how we work and live, telepresence will have a major impact on quality of life.

After a successful workshop in 2021, IEEE Future Directions Committee followed up with the 2022 Symposium on Telepresence to facilitate research and developments.

 

Session List

Day Time* Code Session Title Chair(s) POC email
Wednesday
09-Nov.
12 PM, ET D1A1 TeleEducation Carla Ramirez This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  12 PM, ET D1A2 Telepresence Technologies and Applications Nikhil Deshpande and Gunter Nimeyer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  2 PM, ET D1B1 Ethics, Privacy, and Security Thomas Sheridan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  2 PM, ET D1B2 Human Experience and Data Analytics. Entrepreneurship. Societal Impacts Adrian Stoica This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday
10-Nov.
12 PM, ET D2A Roadmap towards a Telepresence Society Jan van Erp This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  12 PM, ET D2A Parallel Roadmap Session    
  2 PM, ET D2B1 Telehealth and Telemedicine Farokh Atashzar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  2 PM, ET D2B2 ANA Avatar XPRIZE David Locke This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Speakers by Session

D1A1: TeleEducation (Chair: Carla Ramírez)

SPEAKER NAME AFFILIATION PRESENTATION TITLE
Adrian Adascalitei Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi," Iași, Romania Implementation of Blended Teaching and Learning, including Online Laboratories
Lorenza Abbate Politecnico di Torino, Italy Telepresence Robots for Educational Settings: a Model to Support Virtual Inclusion
Agustín Barrera Grupo Scanda Augmented Reality in Education
Susana Catalina Peña Parás Tecnológico de Monterrey, México Global Week at Hall Immersive Room
Antonio Negrete Juárez Tecnológico de Monterrey, México Academic Experiences in the Metaverse of the Tec Virtual Campus
Carla Ramírez Tecnológico de Monterrey, México Reflections for the Future in Tele-education

 

D1A2: Telepresence Technologies and Applications (Chairs: Nikhil Deshpande and Gunter Nimeyer)

SPEAKER NAME AFFILIATION
Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez Facebook Reality Labs Research, Meta, USA
Jeffrey Delmerico / Juan Nieto Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI Lab, Zürich, Switzerland
Carolina Cruz-Neira University of Central Florida

 

D1B1: Ethics, Privacy and Security (Chair: Thomas Sheridan)

SPEAKER NAME AFFILIATION PRESENTATION TITLE
Peter Hancock University of Central Florida Human Factors
Dana Yoerger and Allisa Dalpe Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Dep Ocean Exploration
Woodrow Barfield University of Washington Legal Issues
Jacob Boyd Harvard Kennedy School AI/Digital Policy
Thomas Sheridan MIT Perils of Telepresence

 

D1B2: Human Experience and Data Analytics. Entrepreneurship. Societal Impacts (Chair: Adrian Stoica)

SPEAKER NAME AFFILIATION
Jeff Linnell Formant, USA
Yaoping Hu U. Calgary, Canada
Tom Gedeon ANU, Australia
Maria Palombini IEEE, USA
Tamas Heidegger Hungary
Tariq Rahim Soomo Pakistan

 

D2A: Roadmap towards a Telepresence Society (Chair: Jan van Erp)
Working groups will be formed at the beginning of the meeting, with registrants to the session.
Some of the confirmed participants include Carla Ramirez, Leila Takayama, Terry Fong, Gunter Niemeyer, Tiago Falk, Adrian Stoica, Farokh Atashzar

 

D2B1: Telehealth and Telemedicine (Chair: Farokh Atashzar)

SPEAKER NAME AFFILIATION
Roozbeh Jafari Texas A&M University
Paolo Bonato Harvard University
Sujit Dey University of California, San Diego

 

D2B2: ANA Avatar XPRIZE (Chair: David Locke)

  • ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition Presentation – Summary of the Challenge, including Finals results and data
  • Panel #1: ANA Avatar XPRIZE Judge Panel – several Judges, Discussion on the Prize experience and findings
  • Panel #2: ANA XPRIZE Winning Team Panel Three of the winning teams from Finals to discuss their experiences. Speakers for this panel are TBD until the winners are announced on Nov. 5th.

 

General Chairs: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Saeid Nahavandi, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program Chair: Adrian Stoica, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Gunter Niemeyer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To participate please Register for free at: bit.ly/ieee_telepresence_2022

For additional session information or special requests please email the session chairs. For general information or to be included in the discussions please email Program Chair, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before November 1st, 2022