Welcome!
I am a Professor at the AASS Research Center,Department of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Sweden. I received my Ph.D in Computer Science in Örebro in 2006 in the field of robotic olfaction, and a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. From 2008-2010 I was the program coordinator for the International Masters in Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Örebro University. As of 2011 I am the director of studies for all Computer Engineering programs Örebro University. I am also affiliated with the Örebro Science Park.
Research Interests
My general interests include robotics and intelligent systems. More specifically I am interested in:
- Machine Olfaction including Mobile Robot Olfaction
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Sensor Systems
- Human-Robot Interaction and Social Robotic Telepresence
Supervision
- Marjan Alirezai Bridging the Semantic Gap between Sensor Data and Ontological Knowledge , [pdf]
- Martin Langkvist
- Annica Kristoffersson
- [1] Annica Kristoffersson Measuring the quality of interaction in mobile robotic telepresence systems using spatial formations, [pdf]
- Andreas Persson*
- Hadi Banaee
- Marios Daoutis* - now researcher at ÖU
- [1] Marios Daoutis Knowledge Based Perceptual Anchoring Ph.d Dissertation, Örebro University, 2013 [pdf]
- Sahar Asadi*
- Marco Trincavelli - now Post-doc at AASS
- Anders Dahlbom* - now researcher at Skövde Högskolan
- Maria Nilsson* - now researcher at Viktoria Institute
Services
- Robotdalen Award Committee.(2008-2010)
- Program Commitee for:
- IEEE Int. Conference Tools for Artificial Intelligence, since 2007
- IEEE Int. Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, since 2011
- Reviewer for:
- Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, since 2011
- Robotica, since 2008
- IEEE Sensors Journal, since 2006
- Sensors and Actuactors: B, Chemical, since 2008
Recent Publications (2013 and 2014)
2014
[1] A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, K. Severinson Eklunch, A. Loutfi "Assessment of Interaction Quality in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: An Elderly Perspective". Interaction Studies. 15(2):343-356. 2014.
[2] A. Kiselev, A. Kristoffersson, A. Loutfi Combining Semi-Autonomous Navigation with Manned Behaviour in a Cooperative Driving System for Mobile Robotic Telepresence. Second Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) 2014.
[3] A. Kristoffersson, E. Kolkowka, A. Loutfi Assessment of Expectations and Needs of a Sensor Network to Promote Elderly’s Sense of Safety and Security.The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services. CENTRIC 2014
[3] J.Ullberg, A. Loutfi, F.Pecora A Customizable Approach for Monitoring Activities of Elderly Users in their Homes 2nd Workshop on Activity Monitoring by multiple distributed sensing in conjunction with ICPR 2014
2013
[1] Physical Activity Identification using Supervised Machine Learning and based on Pulse Rate, MU Ahmed, A Loutfi, International Journal of Advanced Computer Sciences and Applications 4 (7) [pdf]
[2] Coradeschi, S.; Cesta, A.; Cortellessa, G.; Coraci, L.; Gonzalez, J.; Karlsson, L.; Furfari, F.; Loutfi, A.; Orlandini, A.; Palumbo, F.; Pecora, F.; von Rump, S.; Stimec, A.; Ullberg, J.; Östlund, B., "GiraffPlus: Combining social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living," Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on , pp.578,585, 6-8 June 2013 doi: 10.1109/HSI.2013.6577883 [pdf]
[3] Annica Kristoffersson, Silvia Coradeschi, and Amy Loutfi, “A Review of Mobile Robotic Telepresence,” Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2013, Article ID 902316, 17 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/902316 [pdf]
[4] Sivakumar, P.K.; Srinivas, C.S.; Kiselev, A.; Loutfi, A., "Robot-human hand-overs in non-anthropomorphic robots," Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.227,228, 3-6 March 2013doi: 10.1109/HRI.2013.6483584 [pdf]
[5] Längkvist, M.; Coradeschi, S.; Loutfi, A.; Rayappan, J.B.B. Fast Classification of Meat Spoilage Markers Using Nanostructured ZnO Thin Films and Unsupervised Feature Learning. Sensors 2013, 13, 1578-1592. [pdf]
[6] Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Hadi Banaee, and Amy Loutfi, “Health Monitoring for Elderly: An Application Using Case-Based Reasoning and Cluster Analysis,” ISRN Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2013, Article ID 380239, 11 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/380239 [pdf]
[7] Andreas Persson, Amy Loutfi, "A Hash Table Approach for
Large Scale
Perceptual Anchoring", Systems Man and Cybernetics, 2013 IEEE
International Conference on, to appear, October 2013 [pdf]
[8] Andreas Persson, Silvia Coradeschi, Balasubramanian
Rajasekaran, Vamsi
Krishna,
Amy Loutfi, and Marjan Alirezaie, "I Would Like Some Food: Anchoring
Objects to Semantic Web Information in Human-Robot Dialogue
Interactions". International Conference on Social Robotics, October
2013.[pdf]
[9] Marjan Alirezaie, Amy Loutfi " Automatic Annotation of Sensor Data Streams using Abductive Reasoning", 5th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Portugal, 2013. [pdf]
[10] Marjan Alirezaie, Amy Loutfi "Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Sensor Data and High Level Knowledge", Doctoral Symposium, 5th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K), 2013, Portugal. [pdf]
[11] A. Kristoffersson, S. Coradeschi, K. Severinson Eklunch, A. Loutfi, "Towards Measuring Quality of Interaction in Mobile Robotic Telepresence using Sociometric Badges". Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, DOI: 10.2478/pjbr-2013-0005 <pdf>
[12] H. Banaee , M. Ahmed, A. Loutfi, "A framework for automatic text generation of trends in physiological time series data". Systems Man and Cybernetics, 2013 IEEE International Conference on, to appear, October 2013 [pdf]