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Mar. 22, 2017

Shir Kashi (pictured above), an undergraduate student at BGU won the best Late-Breaking Report award at the 2017 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Vienna, Austria earlier this month.
Kashi, a research assistant in Dr. Shelly Levi Tzedek's Cognition, Aging and Rehabilitation (CAR) Lab, presented the results of her study on people playing the mirror game with a robotic arm.
The study was conducted at the Department of Physical Therapy, as part of broader research in the CAR lab on interactions between people and robots, with the aim of understanding how to design optimal interactions for integrating robots in the rehabilitation reconstruction process in the future.
The Conference on Human-Robot Interaction is an annual international conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research. Researchers from across the world attend and submit their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the latest theories, technology, data, and videos furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction.
The Conference aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation from communities that include but not limited to robotics, human-computer interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and social and behavioral sciences.