Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England,
Bristol (BRL of UWE) Delegation Visit to Hong Kong 2019

The Talks

- Date: 5 July 2019 (Fri)
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, 7/F, VTC Tower, 27 Wood Road, Wan Chai.

Topics

1. Connected Assistive Robotics to Support Self-Management and Independent Living

Time: 10am – 11am

Summary :

Designing socially assistive robots to empower and support people to live independently requires contextualised, up-to-date, accurate and relevant information. Integrating robots with smart home sensing solutions is a key step in providing dynamic contextual and social intelligence that is required for personalised assistance. Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly will discuss the challenges and approaches for working towards safe and robust connected assistive robotic solutions for noisy real-world environments.

- Speaker: Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly

Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly is the Professor of Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Health Technologies, Department of Engineering Design & Mathematics, Bristol Robotics Laboratory. She is leading research, development and application of emerging smart technologies utilizing recent developments in sensing, data processing and robotics. Dr. Caleb-Solly is the Lead for Assistive Robotics in the Bristol Robotics Lab running the Robotics Personalised Assisted Living Studio.

- Duration: 1 hour

2. Music Interaction with SEN Children

Time: 11am – 12pm

Summary :

This presentation will focus on interaction with electro-mechanical musical instruments in early years SEN schools. One specific case study will be presented which had two main areas of interest: primarily, understanding the use of music technologies in group music workshops; secondly, to evaluate a set of early prototype design interventions created for this context. I will then go on to talk about the various potential avenues for future research in this area.

- Speaker: Dr. Dave Meckin

Dr. Dave Meckin is a senior lecturer, sound designer and developer. His work spans sound design, composition and performance, music and art computing, audio production and software system programming, all with an end to creating engaging and responsive audio-visual environments.His research direction at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol is in designing novel music technologies for young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

- Duration: 1 hour

3. AI and Child-robot Interaction

Time: 2pm – 3pm

Summary :

The talk will take a broad perspective on robots for education: from small non-social mobile robots to very social artificial agents, where do we stand today in terms of technical challenges to build powerful new paradigms for robots for learning? Dr. Séverin Lemaignan will build on results collected over the last few years in a dozen of different schools to also attempt to sketch future directions of research, from interactive machine-learning to data-driven social dynamics.

- Speaker: Dr Séverin Lemaignan

Dr Séverin Lemaignan is a Senior Researcher at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol. Dr Séverin Lemaignan has been involved in several European projects related to social and cognitive robotics, e.g. CHRIS (Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems)and DREAM (Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders). More recently, he has been focusing his experimental work on child-robot interactions in educative settings, exploring how robots can support teachers and therapists to develop effective and engaging novel learning paradigms.

- Duration: 1 hour

4. Panel Discussion on the future of robotics in supporting learning for SEN students

Time: 3pm – 4pm

- Panel Members: Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly, Dr. Dave Meckin and Dr Séverin Lemaignan

- Moderator: Dr. Elson Szeto

Co-Director, Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education
Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy and Leadership, FEHD
Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change
Assistant Editor, International Journal of Leadership in Education

- Duration: 1 hour

Enquiry

- Project Hotline: 2919-1569 or
- Mr. Cliff Chu, 2836-1898, email : cliffchu@vtc.edu.hk

For Robot4SEN participating schools, please login to register

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Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England,
Bristol (BRL of UWE) Delegation Visit to Hong Kong 2019

School Visits

- Venue: Participating Schools
- Total 4 visits to be arranged, 2 visits each day for 2 days

Activities in the Visit

- BRL experts and Robot4SEN project team representatives (about 5 people) will visit the school
- School teachers will brief BRL experts about their schools, share their experience in exemplar development, and demonstrate how to use these exemplars in the T&L activities with SEN children.
- BRL experts will have discussion with the teachers after their observation and give feedback and suggestions to teachers.

Date: 3 & 4 July 2019 (Wed & Thu)
Time: 10am – 12pm (AM session), 2pm – 4pm (PM session)

School Enrolment

- Interested school can go to the Register page, select the session and indicate the priority.

Registration Deadline

- 19 June 2019

Enquiry

- Project Hotline: 2919-1569 or
- Mr. Cliff Chu, 2836-1898, email: cliffchu@vtc.edu.hk

For Robot4SEN participating schools, please login to register

工作坊 1
(W-01)

NAO 及 PEPPER機械人入門

Introduction to NAO and PEPPER

日期 :2019年2月11日

時間: 9:30am to 12:30pm

工作坊 2
(W-02)

以圖像編程軟件Choregraphe操控NAO 及 PEPPER機械人

Controlling NAO and PEPPER with Choregraphe

日期 :2019年2月22日 或 3月5日
時間: 9:30am to 12:30pm

工作坊 3
(W-03)

以圖像編程軟件Choregraphe開發進階的行為舉止

Developing advanced behaviors with Choregraphe

日期 :2019年3月15日 或 3月22日
時間: 9:30am to 12:30pm

Robotics Workshop for Principals    (W-P)
"Target audience: Principal ONLY"

1. Introduction to the 2 robots (NAO and Pepper) used by the project, highlight and compare their features

2. Taking care of robots – illustrate what teachers will face (protecting and packing)

3. Introduction to usage of Choregraphe
– the friendly graphical programming environment for teachers in general
- Provides easy but quite powerful programming environment
- Provides “virtual robot” (robot simulator) for easy try-out of exemplars

日期， 時間待定

工作坊 S     (W-S)

NAO/PEPPER機械人 - 入門 及 以圖像編程軟件Choregraphe操控

NAO/PEPPER robots Introduction and Controlling with Choregraphe

日期 :2019年9月20日 （星期五）
時間: 9:30am to 5:00pm

教學課件簡介及意見收集會

地點：東華三院群芳啟智學校1樓禮堂

備註：出席全天活動教師可申請日薪代課津貼

2019年5月9日 （星期四）
時間: 9:30am to 4:00pm