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CAVAA is present for networking, project dissemination and visibility. therapie LEIPZIG is the leading trade fair and congress for therapy, medical rehabilitation and prevention in German-speaking countries. Every two years, it offers a comprehensive overview of the market and presents innovations, products and services for modern and sustainable patient treatment.

Presentation of CAVAA results as part of an invited talk by Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield) entitled "Designing robots people can relate to" to the Department for Medical Science, 12th March, 2025

A demonstration of multimodal sensory & interaction capabilities of "Hey MiRo" the CAVAA (University of Sheffield) prototype social use-case at the 2025 ACM/IEE Conference on human-robot interaction, 5th March 2025.

28 February 2025 - Mehdi Khamassi (Sorbonne University) - ‘How can we ensure Al systems’ alignment with human values?’

8 February 2025 - Mehdi Khamassi (Sorbonne University) - ‘Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robot’
Univ Bordeaux

Presence at the healthcare event to showcase one of the use case of CAVAA and enhance network opportunities for the project. The REHACARE in Düsseldorf is one of the world's leading trade fairs for rehabilitation, prevention, inclusion, and care. A focal point of the fair is the introduction of new technologies and systems that facilitate communication and enhance the quality of life.

One day symposium of CAVAA researchers with Pathfinder project VALAWAI (Agnieszka Wytkowska), organised by the University of Sheffield, 24th JUly 2024

CAVAA members were present at the XR4Rehab 2024. The XR4REHAB Annual Conference is one of the leading events eager to work towards achieving development in XR applied to the healthcare industry.

18 April 2024 - Mehdi Khamassi (Sorbonne University) - ‘Computational model of different levels of decision-making autonomy in humans’
Meeting with philosophers, sociologists, scientists and artists.

The first CAVAA Executive Board meeting took place virtually on 02. February 2024.

• Date: September 20, 2023
• Speaker: Paul Verschure
• Affiliation: SRU
• Event: EIC Portfolio Ethics Meeting
• Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.

• Date: September 18, 2023
• Speaker: Michele Farisco
• Affiliation: UU
• Event: CRB Seminar, University of Uppsala
• Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.

• Date: September 12, 2023
• Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
• Affiliation: SORB
• Event: Summer school of the French society of Philosophy of science (SPS), Fréjus, France
• Title/Topic: Reinforcement learning and decision-making algorithms at the crossroads between AI and Neuroscience

• Date: September 8, 2023
• Speaker: Ismael Freire Gonzalez
• Affiliation: SRU
• Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Title/Topic: Sample and memory efficiency in episodic reinforcement learning

• Date: September 5, 2023
• Speakers: Alejandro Jiménez Rodríguez (USFD) & Oscar Guerrero Rosado (SRU)
• Affiliation: SRU, USFD
• Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Title/Topic: From Homeostasis to Allostasis: Self-regulatory approaches to Autonomy

• Date: September 5, 2023
• Speaker: Fred Hamker
• Affiliation: TUC
• Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Title/Topic: Goal-directed and habitual behavior

• Date: September 4, 2023
• Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
• Affiliation: SORB
• Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Title/Topic: Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robot

• Date: July 15, 2023
• Speaker: Helge Ülo Dinkelbach, Julien Vitay & Fred Hamker
• Affiliation: TUC
• Event: Tutorial T11
• Title/Topic: Simulation of spiking and BOLD signals using the ANNarchy simulator

• Date: June 29, 2023
• Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
• Affiliation: SORB
• Event: AI Ethics Conference, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
• Title/Topic: Towards a computational model of human decisional autonomy and a formalization of constraints on machine autonomy

• Date: June 6, 2023
• Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
• Affiliation: SORB
• Event: Conference on Philosophy of AI and LLMs, AI Observatory, Paris, France
• Title/Topic: Can computational models of human decisional autonomy help us formalize constraints on robot autonomy?

• Date: April 18, 2023
• Speaker: Tony Prescott
• Affiliation: USFD
• Event: Italian Institute of Technology
• Title/Topic: Robotics perspectives on the emergence of the interpersonal self

• Date: February 6, 2023
• Speaker: Ismael Freire Gonzalez
• Affiliation: SRU
• Event: CAVAA online seminar
• Title/Topic: The role of episodic memory in learning and control

A series of lectures was created and is still running for knowledge exchange between the different disciplines involved in the project.  

The kick-off meeting took place virtually on 27.-28. October 2022.