第７６回エコトピア科学講演会
イギリスからの客員教授の講演
“Smart technologies for independent living of
people with movement disabilities”
The presentation will introduce the programme of teaching and research in
rehabilitation engineering at Coventry University in the UK. The talk will
highlight on some ongoing and recent research projects on wheelchair
stability assessment, human machine interaction, and control of assistive
devices. Some smart house concepts and clinical application of eye-gaze
control systems will be also commented.
Dimitar Stefanov received his PhD degree in assistive robotics from the Institute of Mechanics and
Biomechanics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. From 1982 to 1989, he was an Assistant
Professor. In 1990, he achieved habilitation in biomedical engineering and became a Professor in technology
for independent living at the Institute of Mechanics. During 1998 - 1999, he was a Senior Research Fellow at
the New Industrial Research Organization (NIRO), Kobe, Japan. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Visiting
Professor with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon, Korea. From July
2003 to May 2007, he has been a Principal Clinical Scientist at the Rehabilitation Engineering Department in
Cardiff, UK. Currently, he is the Director of the Programme of Intelligent Health Technology at Coventry
University.
：師講 ディミター・ステファノフ授教
（イギリス国 コベントリー大学，知能健康技術プログラムディレクター,
プリンシパルレクチャラー）
日時： 平成24年 5月 18日（金） 13:00～14:30
会場： ＥＳ総合館 2階 02１講義室
参加費：無料 ／ 申込： 不要
問い合わせ先：
エコトピア科学研究所 門部トクェジロプ合融 教授 大日方 五郎
Phone 052-789-5030 ，
E-mail obinata@mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp