A Virtual Case Presentation Platform: Protocol Study.

Gaining practical experience is indispensable for medical students. Therefore, when medical students were prevented access to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, there was an urgent need to find a solution that would allow medical students to develop the skills they would usually develop in hospitals but without the need to be physically present in a hospital. This was the reason behind the idea of developing a Virtual Case Presentation Platform. The platform offers the possibility for medical students to reproduce virtually, in clinically valid scenarios, the diagnostic process and treatment recommendation, as well as the interactions with patients that usually take place in hospitals using natural language through speech and text. On the platform, the students receive valuable feedback from the professors about their performance. In order to reproduce the whole targeted experience for students, without missing anything, before starting the development of the platform, it was mandatory to identify and understand all the aspects that should be covered by the platform. The proposed platform covers the different aspects that have been identified for the diagnostic process and treatment recommendation. It enables medical students to develop essential skills for their future careers as doctors.

The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot.

Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL). Recent work also highlights that users have the expectation of affordable social robotics platforms, providing focused and specific assistance in a robust manner. In this paper, we present the AMIRO social robotics framework, designed in a modular and robust way for assistive care scenarios. The framework includes robotic services for navigation, person detection and recognition, multi-lingual natural language interaction and dialogue management, as well as activity recognition and general behavior composition. We present AMIRO platform independent implementation based on a Robot Operating System (ROS). We focus on quantitative evaluations of each functionality module, providing discussions on their performance in different settings and the possible improvements. We showcase the deployment of the AMIRO framework on a popular social robotics platform-the Pepper robot-and present the experience of developing a complex user interaction scenario, employing all available functionality modules within AMIRO.