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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
ACI Director Oliver Korn talks to Marc Verbenkov in the Automated Podcast about the future of social robots. In 45 minutes, the two talk entertainingly about social robots in healthcare, their economic potential and ethical challenges. Just listen in and learn a lot about social robots: Where are social robots already used today and why …
The new film “Suitceyes Documentary” by four students from Offenburg University provides a sensitive insight into the everyday life of deafblind persons. It shows how intelligent wearables developed in the EU-project SUITCEYES can significantly improve their lives. New ways of inclusion No vision and a long silence – this is how the 26-minutes documentary introduces …
How much do we accept virtual agents, even if they give us negative feedback or even insult us? The PhD. Candidate Isaac Wang from Florida investigated this together with the Affective & Cognitive Institute ACI in an intercultural study about acceptance of virtual agents. The result of the different acceptance by American and German participants …
One of the last work weeks before Christmas. Everybody is preparing for a merry celebration. Well, not entirely. One group of international researchers still keep their minds sharp and active. They gather up at University of Applied Sciences Offenburg to continue their work in the SUITCEYES project. On 5th – 6th December the 5th SUITCEYES …
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