Digital Empathy: ENGINEERING EMPATHY FOR THE FUTURE OF LIFE

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``ENGINEERING EMPATHY FOR THE FUTURE OF LIFE'' An international workshop on Digital Empathy will be held in the Great Hall at Ulster University (Magee) on Monday, 31st October (Halloween Day) from 9.30am to 6.00pm. The workshop will focus on investigating how robots and people can move closer to placing themselves in each other's shoes. International speakers include Professor Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield), Professor Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld University, Germany), Dr. Tony Brooks (Aalborg University, Denmark), Professor Mike McTear (Granada University, Spain & Emeritus Professor, Ulster University), Professor Siobhan O'Neill (Ulster University) and Professor Gillian Robinson (Ulster University). The workshop is truely interdisciplinary bringing together the disciplines of Social Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Life & Health Sciences, Psychology and Medicine. Workshop Sessions include Digital Care, Digital music rehabilitation, Robot ethics, Digital emotions and sentiment and Story Tales & Telling. Panel discussion sessions on ``How can robots care?'' and ``Engineering empathy for the future of life'' will be chaired by Professor Chris Nugent, Director of Ulster University's Computer Science Research Institute and Dr. David Glass from Ulster University (Jordanstown) respectively. Professor Hugh McKenna, Dean of Ulster University's new Medical School Development will also contribute. The University's 2016 Convocation Annual Lecture entitled: "Robots: to protect and serve" by Professor Noel Sharkey will be held in the Great Hall at 5.00pm. Professor Sharkey is Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics & Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield. He is co-Director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and Chair of the NGO International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). Professor Sharkey will highlight and discuss social responsibility in the development of new technology related to Digital Empathy and the implications of the use of systems to read emotions and intentions for policing, border control war, commercial sales and the wider implications for privacy. Sensum, an emotions-based software solutions company from Belfast will demonstrate their biometric emotional response technology during the day. Dr. Stephen Roddy (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr. Alan Dormer (University of Limerick) will demonstrate Zones-1, a networked infrastructure with supporting smartphone/device interactive mediated sound art installation relevant in a globalised society, where the `flow' of people, markets, finance, ideas and identities question both our understanding and ability to define and contain traditional concepts of zones, territory and place. The workshop has gained widespread interest with over 100 delegates from Denmark, Germany, Spain, England, Limerick, Dublin, Sligo, Belfast, Derry, Letterkenny and Coleraine registered. Digital empathy has garnered much interest of late with fears on the rise of Artificial Intelligence examined in books and films such as `2001: A Space Odyssey', `Blade Runner', `Terminator', `Ex Machina' and `Transcendence'. Elon Musk of Tesla Motors, funder and Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Future of Life Institute, Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, the recently established Partnership on AI industry association (Google, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon) and Scientific Leaders such as Professor Stephen Hawking, who benefits from AI learning technology in his speech synthesizer, have also warned about the dangers of AI technology.

Periode	31 okt. 2016
Begivenhedstitel	Digital Empathy: ENGINEERING EMPATHY FOR THE FUTURE OF LIFE
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Derry, IrlandVis på kort