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Happy New Year to all!<br>
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March 22, 2013<br>
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The Progress and Uncertainties of Human-Robot Relationships<br>
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Due to technological interfaces and homo- and robo- sapiens
encounters, our nurturing instinct and general emotional
dispositions have evolved over time. In a certain way there has
been a re-injection of the human into the human-machine
equation. The present symposium is an enquiry into the possible
forms of relations humans can experience with robots for
everyday life. As humans, we have our habits : we perform a
sub-set of our daily tasks with the help of machine strength,
machine intelligence or robots configured for specific tasks
(some only entertain the idea of accepting to do so).
Technological advance and applications in the fields of service
robotics, epigenetic robotics and cognitive robotics go to
suggest great opportunities for change although our habits guide
us to reserving another sub-set of activities to be done with
humans only. Question: being permanently faced with
technological change, will we remain tributary to our habits?
Will we be able to, or even wish to, maintain the separation we
entertain between human-centred activities and robot-lead
activities? Human companions do trigger human interest, quite
naturally, but what are personal robots, as well as virtual or
digital companions able to do? Some people already seem more
enticed by a screen than a face. In this symposium we plan to
discuss the scientific, religious and media-driven conceptions
in relation to the integration of robots and cyborgs in society,
artificial pleasure and discomfort, communitarian value-sphere
and social change.<br>
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Keywords & Topics: ▪ Indetermination ▪ Seduction ▪
Risk ▪ Artificial General Intelligence ▪ Social impact ▪
Originality in robotic creations ▪ Cognitive enhancement ▪
Technological offer and influence ▪ Dogma, moral and
technological discovery ▪ Care-giving robots ▪ Robot
companions for citizens ▪ Advanced robotics for increased
social presence ▪ Personification ▪ Acceptance ▪
Incommunicability ▪ Human factors philosophy ▪ Revision of
the definition of Relationships ▪ Hybrid engineering ▪
Freedom and rights of machines ▪ Co-constructed experiences
▪ Artificial Selfs and Identities ▪ Permanence of human
values, Ethics ▪ The uncanny valley problem ▪ Communication
and dialogue ▪ Human resemblance and undecidability ▪
Personal preferences ▪ Theoretical controversies<br>
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vincent MÜLLER, James Martin Research Fellow,
Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology,
University of Oxford & ACT Thessaloniki. Coordinator of the
European Union Network for Cognitive Systems, Robotics and
Interaction<br>
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You may find more information here on the entire event and how
to submit (deadline 17 January 2013):<br>
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Thanks in advance for alerting the appropriate colleagues.<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Colin Schmidt<br>
ParisTech & U. LeMans, France<br>
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