@ICDL-Epirob 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
September, 18 -21, 2017
Website: http://www.icdl-epirob.org/
Co-organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy): ldamiano at unime.it
Ioana Ocnarescu (Strate School of Design, Paris, France): i.ocnarescu at strate.design
SMRD 2017 is a frontier cross-disciplinary workshop dedicated to discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of body parts and dynamics for social robots that can facilitate their social interactions with humans.
Since the early beginnings of Cybernetics, the construction of embodied artificial agents – robots – has been strongly relying on the Synthetic or – according to current definitions – “Understanding by Building” Method, which supports and disciplines the modeling of living, cognitive, and social processes - lato sensu - through artificial systems. Its goal is twofold: testing scientific hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the target processes, and building better artifacts, able to exploit these mechanisms to enhance their performances.
In the last decades, with the development of Cognitive, Developmental and Social Robotics, as well as Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), this method has been increasingly applied to social processes. The attempt is that of re-creating aspects of human and/or animal sociality in robotic agents, not only in order to test theories about related social dynamics, but also in order to build avant-garde “social robots” – robotic platforms capable of providing services to humans based on advanced social competences and interactions.
The SMRD2017 workshop focuses on the applications of the Synthetic Method in the construction of social robots with a specific focus: human and/or animal body parts which, due to their morphology and related dynamics, are recognized to have a great potential relevance in (human-human, human-animal and) human-robot interaction. The goal is to create a cross-disciplinary forum dedicated to explore and discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of socially relevant body parts and dynamics for social robots.
September, 18 -21, 2017
Website: http://www.icdl-epirob.org/
Co-organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy): ldamiano at unime.it
Ioana Ocnarescu (Strate School of Design, Paris, France): i.ocnarescu at strate.design
SMRD 2017 is a frontier cross-disciplinary workshop dedicated to discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of body parts and dynamics for social robots that can facilitate their social interactions with humans.
Since the early beginnings of Cybernetics, the construction of embodied artificial agents – robots – has been strongly relying on the Synthetic or – according to current definitions – “Understanding by Building” Method, which supports and disciplines the modeling of living, cognitive, and social processes - lato sensu - through artificial systems. Its goal is twofold: testing scientific hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the target processes, and building better artifacts, able to exploit these mechanisms to enhance their performances.
In the last decades, with the development of Cognitive, Developmental and Social Robotics, as well as Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), this method has been increasingly applied to social processes. The attempt is that of re-creating aspects of human and/or animal sociality in robotic agents, not only in order to test theories about related social dynamics, but also in order to build avant-garde “social robots” – robotic platforms capable of providing services to humans based on advanced social competences and interactions.
The SMRD2017 workshop focuses on the applications of the Synthetic Method in the construction of social robots with a specific focus: human and/or animal body parts which, due to their morphology and related dynamics, are recognized to have a great potential relevance in (human-human, human-animal and) human-robot interaction. The goal is to create a cross-disciplinary forum dedicated to explore and discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of socially relevant body parts and dynamics for social robots.
