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Papers entitled “Effect of activity space on detection of human activities by domestic service robots” and “Identification of friendly and deictic gestures in a sequence using upper body skeletal information” were presented at IEEE Tencon 2017- Region 10 flagship conference held on 5-8 November 2017. The papers were presented by Chapa Sirithunge, a masters student supervised by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara. Arjuna Srimal, an alumni of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana contributed in this work. They are working on the MIRob platform developed for intelligent service applications. The research was funded by Senate Research Grants SRC/CAP/16/03 and SRC/CAP/17/03.