A CSE team led by Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada and Dr. Osama Halabi has received the Best Poster Award at the 3rd International Symposium of Intelligence Design (ISID 2023). The award was given for the poster paper titled “Virtual Reality Wearable Telexistence System Deployment and Evaluation Environment“.
(ISID 2023) is an international conference for researchers from various research fields to discuss the potential future of artificial intelligence and design. This symposium aims to introduce the latest research findings by world-class researchers who lead innovation design and research and discuss unexplored research areas in the field and the possibility of approaching new issues. ISID is hosted by University of Fukui, JAIST Co-AI Design Research Center, and supported by the grant from JAIST Co-AI Design Research Core.
The project is part of a collaboration between Qatar University and Waseda University. The research team includes Ms. Fatima Al-Yafei, Ms. Eman Al-Shaer, Ms. Bushra Alarqaban, Ms. Muneera Al-Yousef, Ms. Lujan Hayajneh, Mr. Abdulla Iskandar, Prof. Tatsuo Nakajima, Dr. Osama Halabi, and Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada.
The poster work is part of a larger project that explores using a VR based environment for the deployment and evaluation of wearable robotic systems, with emphasis on human-robot interaction in various contexts of use.
As our department is involved in several community services, the department organizes different outreach activities to the local schools and also helps their teachers and students whenever possible. One such request for training was put forwarded by the teachers of Qadisiya Elementary School to the department head Dr. Abdulla Al-Ali for their school scientific research project . A training schedule for the students and the teachers was prepared and executed by the department. The department was represented by Eng. Naveed Nawaz, who helped the students in the project that aims to develop a model to protect the students from being left behind in school buses. The model, developed based on Arduino along with two IR sensors, can count the number of students entering the bus, and the number of students leaving it. This enables the bus driver to know how many students are left behind. The students presented their idea on Sunday 19th Feb 2023 in their school exhibition.