[Sigbioinform-l] Last CfPapers: The Progress and Uncertainties of Human-Robot Relationships 2013

[schmidt colin]

Hello,
Please have distributed throughout your network and lists.

-Colin Schmidt



Happy New Year to all!
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March 22, 2013


The Progress and Uncertainties of Human-Robot Relationships

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.

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


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

You may find more information here on the entire event and how to submit 
(deadline 17 January 2013):

http://www.laval-virtual.org/2013/?p=308


Thanks in advance for alerting the appropriate colleagues.
Sincerely,
Colin Schmidt
ParisTech & U. LeMans, France
colin.schmidt at ensam.eu <http://webmail.univ-lemans.fr/dimp/#>

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