ACI Director Prof. Oliver Korn gives exciting insights into the gaming field and explains how the Open Game & FabLab OGFLab supports students in starting their own business in the #11 OG podcast episode on February 3, 2022. He explains why emotions are increasingly in focus in human-machine interaction and how the Affective & Cognitive …
SWR reports on EmoCare robot “Misa”
On 23.12.2021, SWR reported in Aktuell Baden-Württemberg about the EmoCare project of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg. The two-minute report shows nursing robot “Misa” during an initial test deployment at Sankt Carolushaus in Freiburg. Are nursing robots a remedy for staff shortages? To answer this question, an SWR team looked at the EmoCare project …
Keynote on Social Robots at Ben-Gurion University in Israel
On November 24, ACI-director Oliver Korn gave the Keynote of the ABC-Robotics Workshop at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The keynote titled “Cultural Differences in Social Robot Acceptance. A Case Study and a Concept for Future Field Research” discussed recent findings on cultural differences affecting the acceptance and design preferences of social …
EmoCare meets Flitzmo robot
The EmoCare research project supports nurses with the help of voice, gesture and facial expression analysis of residents in retirement homes. At the end of September, the EmoCare team exchanged ideas with the operators of the Flitzmo robot. The EmoCare research project of the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences together with the software developer Dr. …
SUITCEYES shortlisted for the Innovation Radar Prize
SUITCEYES is among the 24 innovations from 200 submissions that has made it to the short list of the Innovation Radar Prize 2021. The next step towards winning the Innovation Radar Prize will be to participate in a public voting. This voting takes place on Dealflow.eu, where all 24 selected innovations will be introduced to …
Major project OGFLab launched
The ACI-affiliated project Open Game & FabLab, or OGFLab for short, was launched on 1 July 2021. Funded by the BMBF to the tune of 1.4 million euros, the project will expand the area of business start-ups at the university in the long term and raise it to a qualitatively higher level. New StartUpLab as …
Offenburg University of Applied Sciences launches Noneliness App
The University of Applied Sciences Offenburg is introducing Noneliness App developed at the Affective & Cognitive Institute for its students. The gamified social platform offers a safe and fun way to continue campus life online and stay connected to the university community. App against loneliness enables virtual campus life Based on the exchange of text …
SUITCEYES-project is complete!
Three years of hard work and intensive research activity on how to improve the life of persons with deafblindness – and now the European project SUITCEYES is complete. International exchange on deafblindness To present the results and discuss further needs, the consortium invited participants to the symposium “Living Through Touch – Smart, Haptic Communication for …
incluMOVE research project successful completed – A review
The research and inclusion project incluMOVE was dedicated to supporting people with intellectual disabilities in the learning and working environment from October 2017 to March 2021. Together with the project partners Femos gGmbH and Fraunhofer IPA, a gamified assistance system was developed that uses projections on a table surface to provide instructions on how to …
incluMOVE Software: Open Source Release
The incluMOVE system for an interactive and context-aware learning and workspace is now publicly available free of charge. The system is the result of the education and research project incluMOVE to support people with reduced performance in their work. The assistive system incluMOVE guides people through the work process of assembling printed circuit boards via …