"Our university has several local and international projects in to improve or promote health and well-being"

Adhoc - As part of an ongoing program Our university has several local and international projects in to improve or promote health and well-being. Two examples are below: RoboRehab is Assistive Audiology Rehabilitation Robot, TUBITAK 1001 project. The motivation of this work is to develop an affective robot companion for audiology rehabilitation and to test the system with the deaf or hard of hearing children. A humanoid robot Pepper enhanced with emotion/attention/stress recognition based on physiological data, and facial data, and gamification of conventional auditory tests are used. EMBOA ERASMUS+ project entitled “Affective loop in Socially Assistive Robotics as an intervention tool for children with autism” is a research and educational project that aims at enhancement of social robot intervention in children with autism with affective computing technologies. The project is implemented in years 2019-2022 under EU Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnership for Higher Education Programme.

There are a number of places to go to for a hot meal, whether breakfast, lunch, or a dinner service at ITU. Free Soup Truck program will provide all students free soup service without looking their financial income. The soup service will be served from a truck traveling around ITU Campus. The program is under construction.

This project addresses the following Sustainable Development Goals: