12th IEEE Workshop Robot and Human
Interactive Communication

RO-MAN 2003

October 31 - November 2, 2003
Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, Millbrae, California USA



Co-Chairs

H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD
Rehabilitation R&D Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
3801 Miranda Ave. MS 153
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1200
Tel: 650-493-5000 #65971
Fax: 650-493-4919
vdl@stanford.edu

Kazuo Yana, PhD
Director
Hosei University Research Institute, California (HURIC)
800 Airport Blvd. Suite 504
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-401-6985
yana@huric.org

Scientific Advisory Board

Zenn Bien, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Dean, College of Engineering
Director, Human-Friendly Welfare Robot System Research Center
KAIST, KOREA

Mark Cutkosky, PhD
Professor
Design Division
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Oussama Khatib, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Kenneth Salisbury, PhD
Professor (Research)
Dept. of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Chris Ullrich, PhD
Director of Software R&D
Immersion Corp.
San Jose, CA

Kenneth J. Waldron, PhD
Professor (Research) and James H. Clark Faculty Scholar
Design Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Review Board

Gunter Niemeyer, PhD (Chair)
Assistant Professsor
Design Division
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Remis Balaniuk, PhD
Stanford Robotics Lab
CS Dept.
Stanford, CA

Federico Barbagli, PhD
Stanford Robotics Lab
CS Dept.
Stanford, CA

Prof. Myung Jin Chung
EE, KAIST
mjchung@ee.kaist.ac.kr

Antonio Frisoli, PhD
Research Fellow
PERCRO - Polo Sant'Anna Valdera
Pisa, Italy

Gerhard Grunwald
Gerhard.Grunwald@dlr.de

Gregory D. Hager, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Chris Hasser, PhD
Director, Applied Research,
Intuitive Surgical Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

Michelle Johnson, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
ARTS Lab and Centro RTR
Pisa, Italy

Boris Kluge
kluge@faw.uni-ulm.de

Prof. Dong Soo Kwon
ME, KAIST
kwonds@mail.kaist.ac.kr

Gisbert Lawitzky
Gisbert.Lawitzky@mchp.siemens.de

Prof. Ju Jang Lee
EE, KAIST
jjlee@ee.kaist.ac.kr

Richard Mahoney, PhD
Applied Resources Corp.
Westmont, NJ 08108

Allison Okamura, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Baltimore, MD

Erwin Prassler Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing
Helmholtzstr. 16, D-89081 Ulm
GERMANY
Tel. +49 731 501-621
Fax. +49 731 501-999
prassler@faw.uni-ulm.de

Gregor Schoener
Gregor.Schoener@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Dimitar Stefanov, PhD
Visiting Professor, KAIST
Department of Electrical Engineering
Daejeon, Korea

Prof. Myung Jin Chung
EE, KAIST
Daejeon, Korea

Prof. Ju Jang Lee
EE, KAIST
Daejeon, Korea

H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, PhD
Rehabilitation R&D Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
3801 Miranda Ave. MS 153
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1200
Tel: 650-493-5000 #65971
Fax: 650-493-4919
vdl@stanford.edu

Kazuo Yana, PhD
Director
Hosei University Research Institute, California (HURIC)
800 Airport Blvd. Suite 504
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-401-6985
yana@huric.org

Jianwei Zhang
zhang@informatik.uni-hamburg.de


Local Organization Committee

Misako Endoh (Chair & Secretariat)
Academic Director, HURIC
800 Airport Blvd., Suite 504
Burlingame, CA 94010 USA
650-401-6985 ext 104
endohm@huric.org

Lise Worthen, MS
Rehabilitation R&D Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

David Jaffe, MS
Biomedical Engineer
Rehabilitation R&D Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

J. Joseph Wagner, MS Website administrator
Rehabilitation R&D Center: Bldg. 51
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
3801 Miranda Ave. MS 153
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1200 USA
Tel: 650-493-5000 #63293
Fax: 650-493-4919
joew@cdr.stanford.edu



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