News – Lires https://lires.uom.gr Laboratory of Informatics and Robotics in Education and Society Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:33:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 AiRobo Training in Thessaloniki https://lires.uom.gr/airobo-training-in-thessaloniki/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:30:23 +0000 https://lires.uom.gr/?p=1260
Between the 17th-219st of June 2024, UOM successfully organised the T2 – Training in Robotics (II) as part of the “AiRobo: Artificial Intelligence based Roboticsproject, GA number n° 2023-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000152418, Erasmus+ programme, Cooperation partnerships in higher education”.

The training covered a range of topics from basic to advanced robotics . Week 1 included an introduction to social robotics, programming fundamentals, speech and interaction, autonomous robotics, vision and object recognition, and project planning. Week 2 focused on advanced topics such as human-robot interaction (HRI), advanced social robot interaction, customization and advanced programming, project development and review, and presentation.

This initiative significantly contributed to the promotion of education and research in the field of robotics, providing partners – participants from West University of Timisoara (WUT), Université de Lorraine (UL), and Eszterházy Károly Catholic University (EKCU)  with valuable knowledge and skills!!!!

We would also like to express our gratitude to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and Mr. Antonis Dimitriou (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, AUTH) for their warm hospitality, insightful tour, and presentations!

For more information about the project visit website: https://airobo.info.uvt.ro/

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]]> ASD-IncluDi project for a more inclusive distance education https://lires.uom.gr/asd-includi-project-for-a-more-inclusive-distance-education/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:30:28 +0000 http://lires.uom.gr/?p=1206 Lires Lab is glad to participate in the ASD-IncluDi project in the context of Erasmus+ KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education Programme. The coordinator is the University of Macedonia and the participating organizations are:

Emphasys Interactive Solutions (Cyprus)

Atlantis (Greece)

Rezeknes Tehnologiju Akademija (Latvia)

Agrupamento de Escolas José Estevão (Portugal)

Autism-Europe (Belgium)

Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)

The ASD-IncluDi project aims for accessible and inclusive distance education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

 

ASD-IncluDi objective has been the creation and implementation of an innovative and easy to integrate framework that will allow special needs educators, as well as parents and caregivers to adopt distance learning and use it effectively to have the best possible outcomes for children with ASD.

For more information visit https://autism-includi.uom.gr/

]]> Transnational Project Meeting Greece https://lires.uom.gr/transnational-project-meeting-greece/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:56:16 +0000 https://lires.uom.gr/?p=542 On December 1st and 2nd, 2021, the 6th Transnational Meeting of the project “Enhancing Digital Skills of Hard-to-Reach Adults for Better Life Chances – OurDigiSpace” took place in Thessaloniki, in which the Department of Educational and Social Policy participates (LIRES lab). Issues related to the completion of the project, as well as prospects for new collaborations, were discussed with the project partners from Lithuania, Turkey and Portugal. The OurDigiSpace project is funded under the European program: Erasmus+  ΚΑ2 Strategic Partnerships.

]]> Honored to be invited to Thessaloniki Design Week https://lires.uom.gr/honored-to-be-invited-to-thessaloniki-design-week/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 19:45:42 +0000 https://lires.uom.gr/?p=535 Honored to be invited to Thessaloniki Design Week (Thessaloniki, 2021)! From 13-17 October 2021, we were exhibiting robot prototypes and were there to answer questions and discuss the design and functionality of our socially assistive robots. Among architects, artists, engineers, and computer scientists. Prof. Nikos Fachantidis also gave the invited talk ‘Designing Robots for Social Good’.

 

 

 

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