Committees ORGANIZED BY: AT-EQUAL IEEE-SMC ADEVO, USA                             University of Kent, UK                             University of Essex, UK                             University of Salford, Manchester, UK GENERAL CHAIR Kenji Suzuki, University of Tsukuba, Japan CO-CHAIR(Finance): Gareth Howells, U. Kent, UK PROGRAM CHAIR Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Anna Gruebler, University of Essex, UK Kyrre Glette, University of Oslo, Norway LOCAL CO-CHAIRS Samia Nefti-Meziani, Salford University, Manchester, UK Theo Theodoridis, Salford University, Manchester, UK ADVISORY COMMITTEE Sukhan Lee, Sungkyunkwan U., Korea Adrian Lobontiu, EndoGastric Solutions, USA Chris Nemeth, ARA, USA Daniel David, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania Edward Tunstel, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins U., USA Horia Nicolai Teodorescu, TU Iasi, Romania Kevin Warwick, U. Reading, UK PUBLICATION CHAIR David Barerro, U Alcala, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Kenji Suzuki, University of Tsukuba, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE  Rachid Alami, LAAS-Toulouse, France Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK Chris Assad, California Institute of Technology, USA Paul Benjamin, Pace University, USA Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Mohamed Chetouani, EPFL, Switzerland Geert De Cubber, Royal Military Academy, Belgium Daniel David, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania Kerstin Dautehahn, U. Hertfordshire, UK Anna Esposito, Second University of Naples, Italy Dean Edwards, University of Idaho, USA Mustafa Supfi Erden, ENSTA, France Joe Ferguson, USA Paolo Fiorini, Universita' di Verona, Italy Dario Floreano, EPFL, Switzerland Saman Kumara Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Gareth Howells, The University of Kent, UK Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Didier Keymeulen, California Institute of Technology, USA Terry Huntsberger, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Dirk Lefeber, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Sukhan Lee, SungKyunKwan U., Korea Klaus D McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Kaveh Mashayekhi, Hungary Ionut Olaru, IMHC, USA Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Ricardo Poli, U. Essex, UK Luminita Simion, University Hospital Saint Spiridon Iasi, Romania Julian Savulescu, U. Oxford, UK Vlad P. Shmerko, University of Calgary, Canada Dan Stoianovici, John Hopkins University, USA Adriana Tapus, ENSTA Paris, France Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway Bram Vanderborght, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Shigeru Wesugi, Japan     International Workshop on Human-Machine Systems,  Cyborgs and Enhancing Devices                 HUMASCEND AT-EQUAL