Center Events

[2025/11/12] (Upcoming) International Conference: AI and Active Aging

An International Conference on AI and Active Aging will be hosted by the center on November 12 at the Asia Center of Seoul National University. The conference comprises keynote speeches by world-renowned professors in the area, with student and post-doc researchers from collaborating labs also scheduled to speak. Invited professors are Prof. Jeanne Brett (Northwestern Univ.), Prof. Jonathan Gratch (Univ. of Southern California), Prof. Grace Kim (New York Univ.), and Prof. Brigitte Steinheider(The Univ. of Oklahoma-Tulsa). Doctorate/post-doc researchers Yoon Kyung Lee, Eunsik Choi, Lianmei Li, and Yoonsu Cho will also present their research in the area. The conference will provide participating students with a networking session to share thoughts and examine opportunities for future collaboration. Further details will soon be available on a separate website.

[2025/10/20] Lecture by Professor Bongwon Suh

Bringing us closer to the goal of taking an integrated approach to active aging, Professor Bongwon Suh of the Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence gave a lecture on taking a computational approach to active aging. The lecture took place on October 20 at the Woosuk Economic Hall. Along with a brief introduction of the history of LLM and its use, graduate students and professors also participated in a hands-on session in which they could build custom RAG models using "dify", a high-level RAG building tool. 

[2025/10/16] Guest talk by Professor Art Kramer

On October 16, Professor Art Kramer gave a guest talk on the influence of physical activity on cognitive and brain health via Zoom, marking the first open webinar hosted by the Active Aging HAI Center. Professor Art Kramer is an emeritus professor and former director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The presentation introduced research that have examined the effects of exercise training interventions and physical activity participation on cognitive and brain health, both from Prof. Kramer's laboratory and others. A recorded video of the lecture is available here.

[2025/10/01] CoRL/Humanoids 2025 Organizers' visit to Human Factors Psychology Lab

On October 1, members of the CoRL/Humanoids 2025 organizer team visited the Human Factors Psychology Lab for a lab tour and research sharing talk. Laetitia Tanqueray, PhD Candidate at Lund University, presented her view on how the HRI community views informal caregivers. Demetra Brady, Tom Erez, and Metin Toksoz-Exley from the AI Ethics & Safety Team at Google DeepMind also participated to gain hands-on experience with current research projects. Charlie Ovink from the UN also joined in to share insights.

[2025/09/27 and 10/02] CoRL/Humanoids 2025 

On September 27, Professor Sowon Hahn and the center's research assistants attended the Conference on Robot Learning (CORL). The workshop focused on critically examining ethical issues in robot learning and applications, leading to the development of ethical approaches. Professor Hahn gave a keynote speech on the adaptability of the robotics foundation model viewpoint. Other center members, Yoon Kyung Lee and graduate students (Serin Oh and Seonu An), hosted an interactive activity discussing AI ethics in robotics, focusing on socially appropriate robots. 

On October 2, Yoon Kyung Lee gave a speech about "Empathic AI for Human-Robot Interaction: Designing Socially Appropriate Behaviors with Foundation Models". 

You can check the workshop details here.

[2025/09/23] Prof. Sowon Hahn's lecture on Active Aging and Human Factors Psychology 

On September 23, Professor Sowon Hahn delivered a special lecture on ‘Active Aging and Human Factors’ in the ‘Psychological Seminar’ class. Professor discussed what aging is, how senior-friendly existing technologies are, how effective physical movement is for active aging, and how human factors engineering can contribute to active aging in the future.

[2025/09/17-19] COEX Digital Healthcare Conference

On September 17-19, members of the Active Aging HAI Center and SVRobotics participated in the 'Digital Healthcare Conference.' Members introduced a way of using robotics in healthcare settings.

[2025/09/15] Tour of the Sports Engineering Lab, courtesy of Professor Jooeun Ahn

On September 15, professors and students of the Active Aging HAI Center were given a guided tour of the Sports Engineering Lab, courtesy of Professor Jooeun Ahn. Members of the Sports Engineering Lab gave detailed explanations of ongoing projects and equipment, including live demonstrations with volunteers from the audience. To conclude the session, Professor Ahn shared a quote displayed on the front page of his lab's website:

"We have an instrumented treadmill, force platforms, multiple high-speed motion capture cameras, EMG sensors, a wearable metabolic system, etc. However, the most valuable assets to our lab are the students. They are the 'Avengers' in the field of sports engineering, who have strong passion and expertise in either kinesiology, engineering or both."