Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Julien Pettré is coordinator of the H2020 ICT CrowdBot project which started in Jan 2018

• Claudio Pacchierotti is the unit PI of the new H2020 FET-OPEN project “H-Reality,” started on October 2018. The project gathers 5 academic partners - Univ. Birmingham (UK, coordinator), TU Delft (NL), CNRS (France) - as well as 2 industrial partners - Ultrahaptics (UK) and Actronika SAS (France)

• Claudio Pacchierotti has been elected Secretary of the Eurohaptics Society

Awards

• Firas Abi Farraj was finalist for the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 Best Paper Award on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics

• Claudio Pacchierotti has been selected as “Top 1% Reviewer” by field, 2018 Peer Review Awards, Publons (https://publons.com/awards/2018/esi/?name=Pacchierotti&esi=23)

• Louise Devigne was one of the five finalists of Best Paper Award for the IEEE SMC 2018 conference for the paper [60]

• Louise Devigne received the Best Paper Award of the IFRATH Handicap 2018 conference [80]

• Salma Jiddi received the Best Demo Award at the Asia Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality, APMAR'18, Taipe, Taiwan [63]