Imad Alex Awada

Polytechnic University of Bucharest | UPB · Department of Computers

Background Medical students gain essential skills through hospital training and internships, which complement their theoretical education. However, virtual patient platforms have been shown to effectively promote clinical reasoning and enhance learning outcomes. This study evaluates a web-based platform designed for learning clinical reasoning in c...

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 physi...

As a result of the lack of access to hospitals for medical students during the COVID-19 pandemics, a web-based platform is being developed in partnership between the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest and the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The platform allows medical students to simulate their interactions with pati...

The practical training in consulting and diagnosing a patient is essential for medical students. Any disruption of the normal practical training due to different reasons, such as the restrictions that were imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, will prevent students from gaining those essential skills. To answer this provocation, a web-based platfor...

Restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have prevented medical students from having regular access to hospitals in Romania. This caused a disruption in the normal educational flow that leads medical students to gain essential skills and experience in the practice of consulting and diagnosing a patient. To alleviate the issue a web-based...

Service robots will be a necessity for humans in many areas where robots will provide varied daily services that will become more sophisticated and superior to the capabilities of robots. We show how our robotic system can handle multiple re- quired tasks either sequentially, simultaneously, or concurrently. These tasks can be requested from intern...

With the help of telemedicine, patients can be treated by remote specialists through teleconference. In addition to the communication between health professionals and their patients, telemedicine should coordinate and manage the day-to-day operations and it must have a well-defined service request and incident management process. A support process...

In the context of rapid development of robotic technologies and fast growth of the ageing population, assistive robots have become an important factor to consider for offering support to elderly people. Thus, not surprisingly, human–robot interaction plays a crucial role in the booming market for intelligent personal-service. This paper presents tw...

Social and service robots are designed to achieve complex tasks that are increasing daily. Cloud resources enhance service robots with strong computing capabilities and higher data storage centers. One of the major drawbacks of the cloud robotics model is the network latency that edge computing addresses. Considering the capabilities that a service...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand on the e-Learning solutions was in continuous growth and was adopted widely by schools, universities and other educational institutions as well as by individual people exceeded (e.g. a language application on the smartphone) or products (e.g. an interactive tutorial in a game). The COVID-19 pandemic mad...

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...

Social robot in service is radically changing the ways of performing tasks and it becomes a distinct and valuable nascent. To achieve persist autonomy, robotic systems implement a closed-loop consisting of at least planning, reasoning and acting phases. From the continual loop perspective, this paper presents the ROSPlan framework, as a task planni...

Due to the current lifestyle, people in general and adolescents in particular are not physically active enough which put at risk their health. Immediate actions are needed to promote a more active lifestyle. This paper introduces a platform that aims to encourage students to have a more active life. The platform suggests for each user to perform sp...

Within the first two decades of the third millennium, the evolution of e-Learning exceeded all the expectations and became an important tool that should be available in schools, universities, any other educational institutions and workplaces. This paper presents an e-Learning platform that helps primary school students to enhance their learning pr...

The number of elderly people (aged 60 years or over) is increasing significantly. Moreover, this happens in the context of increasing well-being costs and decreasing caregiver availability. Therefore, technology must create assisted living solutions that support elderly in their daily activities and ensure their continuous health-monitoring, safety...

Adaptive user interfaces can be more effective in increasing accessibility of the interaction between people and systems, especially for elderly or people with different impairments such as cognitive impairments in people with dementia. There are two possible types of adaptation for interfaces: navigation and content-based adaptation. Both types of...

Nowadays, eLearning becomes an important way to transfer knowledge to learners. Thus, the number of eLearning content (eLearning websites, digital books, tutorials) has increased significantly during the last decade. However, the majority of the available eLearning solutions interact with the user through the traditional Human Computer Interface, u...

In this paper, we present the outcomes and conclusions obtained by involving seniors from three countries (Denmark, Poland and Romania) in an innovative project funded under the European Ambient Assisted Living (ALL) program. CAMI stands for “Companion with Autonomously Mobile Interface” in “Artificially intelligent ecosystem for self-management an...

Physical activity represents a key element for elderly people to maintain a healthy life. This paper presents a game for supporting and stimulating elderly people in performing physical activity. The game is composed of different type of exercises that are selected based on the user’s profile and health status. The results are presented to the user...

The increase in life expectancy and the slumping birth rates across the world result in lengthening the average age of the society. This change in demography has many consequences, the major being the insufficient number of caregivers. Therefore, we are in need of techniques that will assist the elderly in their daily life, while preventing their s...

Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) applications allow elderly people to maintain a healthy life style and live longer in their homes. In this paper we describe a platform that combine physical exercises, health monitoring with a reminder component implemented as a multimodal interface adapted to elderly needs for maintaining a healthy lifestyle for eld...

With the continuous ageing of the population, the demand for different healthcare services is increasing at a fast pace. At the same time, the number of caregivers is limited and the cost of well-being is increasing. Therefore, there is a recognized need for technologies that assist elderly people in their daily activities and ensure their safety a...

Over the last two decades, technology has evolved fast causing mass evolution in every aspect of life, among which health care domain and human-machine interaction. However, the benefits of the technology progress were limited for its elderly users, since the traditional human-machine interfaces were always a barrier between them and any new device...

The increasing ageing population worldwide imposes some new challenges to the society like the provision of dependable support while facing a shortage in the numbers of caregivers, increased health costs and the emergence of new diseases. As such there is a great demand for technologies that support the independent and safe living of the elderly an...