Nevena Ackovska, Macedonia

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

WG3, WG5-member

Main research interest: Robotics Education, Human – robot interaction, Cognitive robotics
Relevant projects: PI in several national research projects Bioengineering and modeling of intelligent beings (2012-2014), Learning methodologies for beings engineering (2014-2016), Assistive Technologies in Everyday living (2016-2018). Member of current projects: Smart I (Eye) Advisory Rescue System (SIARS) financed by the NATO Science for Peace Programme (2015 onward), COST project Harmonising standardisation strategies to increase efficiency and competitiveness of European life-science research (CHARME) (2016-2020).
Main achievments related to this project: Improvement of the methodology of teaching hardware courses to software based curricula introducing software oriented approach, OER and gamification, reported in IEEE Transactions on Education 2014, and other journals and conferences; Programing robotics dancing postures for biped robots, reported in 2010, in Seventh International Conference for Informatics and Information Technologies; Human robot interaction modules for autistic children therapy, reported in 2016, 9th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics

  • V. Kirandziska, N. Ackovska, “Tendencies and Perspectives of the Emotions Usage in Robotics” chapter in ICT Innovations 2017 Data-Driven Innovation, ed. Dimitar Trajanov and Verica Bakeva, series Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2017, pp. 154-164
  • N. Ackovska, S. Ristov, “OER Approach for Specific Student Groups in Hardware-Based Courses”, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Education (Volume:57 , Issue: 4 ), 2014, pp. 242- 247
  • V. Kirandziska, N. Ackovska, “Teaching Robotics for Computer Science Students”, chapter in Robotics in Education – Latest Results and Developments, Editors: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (Eds.), series Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018, pp.193-198
  • V. Kirandziska, N. Ackovska, “A Concept for Building More Humanlike Social Robots and Their Ethical Consequence”, IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 19-37, 2014
  • N. Ackovska, V. Kirandziska, A. Tanevska, L. Bozinovska, A. Bozinovski, “Robot – Assisted Therapy for Autistic Children”, IEEE SoutheastCon 2017, Charlote, NC, pp. 1-2