Emerging Technologies for Social Interaction
A TOUCHLESS ONLINE event in collaboration with Crowdhelix
Our sense of touch enables us to understand our environment but also serves emotional purposes. For example, it provides information (surfaces, textures), it warns us (heat, thorns), it soothes and bonds us (caressing, hugging). Yet, current online and digital interactions make limited use of our sense of touch, often because most haptic technologies require us to wear or hold something, while their capacity to deliver rich tactile sensations is limited compared to how we naturally apply our touch sense in our offline physical and social interactions.
This event is aimed at anyone interested in Emerging Technologies for Social Interaction and participating in proposals targeting one of the forthcoming Horizon Europe CL4 topics.
This event is organised as part of the Haptics Helix - an international Open Innovation community of specialists in the fields haptics technology, affective touch and human-computer interaction created to support the TOUCHLESS project.
Should you have any questions about the event, please contact us at events@crowdhelix.com
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Agenda (times in CET)
10:00 am Welcome
10:05 am Introduction to Touchless project - Orestis Georgiou / Ultraleap
10:20 am EIC instrument with a focus on targeting the pathfinder transition call - Nadege Grabowski / Zaz Ventures
10:40 am Exploration at the European level - Mark Bennett / Inlecom
11:00 am Elevator Pitch
11:20 am Break
11:35 am Panel Discussion on novel technologies at the intersection of AI and social interaction
Moderator: Asier Marzo
Panelists from SECTG:
Lorenzo Pacinali - Imperial College London
Yuri De Pra - University of Pisa
Pieter van der Linden - VIVITnet
Orestis Georgiou - Ultraleap
Doron Friedman - Reichman University
12:20 pm From the science of touch to the haptics industry - Vincent Hayward / Actronika
12:35 pm The hapics helix - Michael Browne / Crowdhelix
12:45 pm VR and social interaction - Mel Slater / University of Barcelona
13:15 pm closing remarks