The program has now been finalised.
Day 1: Parramatta South
0900-1700
| Time | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 0900-0910 | Omar Mubin, Simon Burrows | Welcome |
| Morning Session: Living and Working with Robots and AIs, chair: Omar Mubin | ||
| 0910-1000 | Mari Velonaki | Social Robotics: Experiential design as a key driver to an engaging human robot interaction |
| 1000-1030 | Jakub Złotowski | The role of anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction |
| 1030-1050 | Coffee Break | |
| 1050-1120 | Adel Al-Jumaili | The realism of computational intelligence in children rehabilitation applications |
| 1120-1150 | Chris Chesher | Robotic camera movement and the any-movement-whatever |
| 1150-1220 | Mauricio Novoa | New ways of being that redesign human and machine identities, labor and participation in a 4.0 revolution of industry and humanities |
| 1220-1240 | Frédéric Gilbert | The Robot in my Head. What are the Risks of Interacting with an implantable Brain-Computer Interface that ‘Knows Better’? |
| 1240-1340 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session: Living and Working with Robots and AIs, chair: Max Cappuciano | ||
| 1340-1430 | Simeon Simoff | TBC |
| 1430-1500 | Dan Hutto | Social Cognition meets Ex Machina: Wittgensteinian Worries about Social Robotics |
| 1500-1520 | Coffee break | |
| 1520-1610 | Toby Walsh | AI and Ethics: Why all the fuss? |
| 1610-1700 | Simon Burrows, chair | Roundtable: Skillsets for the AI society: the role of the humanities and social sciences. Panellists: Mari Velonaki, Dan Hutto, Mauricio Novoa, Toby Walsh and Simeon Simoff |
| 1800 onwards | Social dinner at Hyderabad House, to be followed by drinks | |
Day 2: Parramatta City
0900-1700
| Time | Speaker | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Session: Virtuous Robots: Artifical Agents and the Good Life, chair: Simon Burrows | ||
| 0900-0950 | Rob Sparrow | Virtues and vices in our relationships with robots: Is there an asymmetry and how might it be explained? |
| 0950-1010 | Mohammad Obaid | Designing assistant classroom robots – a child-centered approach |
| 1010-1030 | Eduardo Benitez Sandoval | Robot addiction: From science fiction representation to real addiction. |
| 1030-1050 | Coffee Break | |
| 1050-1140 | Max Cappuccio | Pinocchio Doctrine. Exposing the paradox of robotic nature |
| 1140-1210 | Nicole Robinson | Psychometric Measures of Incentives and Self-Efficacy to Interact with a Social Humanoid Robot |
| 1210-1300 | Massimiliano Cappuccio, chair | Roundtable: How robots can make us better humans. Panellists: Rob Sparrow, Christoph Bartneck, Heikki Ikaheimo, Eleanor Sandry |
| 1300-1400 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session: Virtuous Robots: Artifical Agents and the Good Life, chair: Omar Mubin | ||
| 1400-1450 | Christoph Bartneck | Robots and Racism Revisited |
| 1450-1520 | Eleanor Sandry | Virtuous human-robot assemblages: trust and tempered anthropomorphism |
| 1520-1550 | Heikki Ikaheimo | Robots and recognition – what it would mean and could there be any? |
| 1550-1610 | Coffee break | |
| 1610-1630 | Liam Magee | Hypothetical Machines: Innovation, Labour, and Reward in an age of AI |
| 1630-1650 | Tsung-Hsing Ho | Don’t Save Me, Let Me Die!”: On the Relation between Robots and Humans |