UTARI is proud to announce that Dr. Nicholas Gans and his research group have received the Kazuo Tanie Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025) in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The award was presented in recognition of their paper, “Field Testing an Assistive Robot Teleoperation System for People Who Are Legally Blind.” The award marks an important milestone for UTARI’s contributions to Human-Robot Interaction research.
The award-winning paper was coauthored by Vishwaak C. Thamaraiselvan, Param D. Salunkhe, and Michail Theofanidis, and conducted in collaboration with Professor Fillia Makedon and her research group. The project was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER award HCC: Exploring Human Factors: Is a Teleoperated Robotics Framework Feasible for Persons Who Are Visually Impaired?
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