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Merry Christmas 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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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.laval-virtual.org/2013/?p=308">http://www.laval-virtual.org/2013/?p=308</a><br />
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Thanks in advance for alerting the appropriate colleagues.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Colin Schmidt<br />
ParisTech & U. LeMans, France<br />
<a title="Nouveau message pour colin.schmidt@ensam.eu" href="http://webmail.univ-lemans.fr/dimp/#">colin.schmidt@ensam.eu</a><br />
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