ロボットの(境界)面：ロボットの顔を理解しマッピングする

顔は多くのロボットにとって重要な特徴であり、ロボットのアイデンティティや感情を示し、注意を喚起し、物理的および主観的空間においてロボットを方向付けます。また、顔は擬人化され、生き生きとし、存在感があるように見える錯覚の中心的存在です。

このイベントでは、メディア哲学、ロボットに対する民俗学的アプローチや科学技術社会論の観点から、ロボットの顔の特徴と働きを探求していきます。

Bio of speakers

Chris Chesher is a senior lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. His research concentrates on emerging media, their cultural contexts and histories. He has published in New Media and Society, the International Journal of Social Robotics, M/C journal and Convergence. His forthcoming book Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer will be released in 2023.

Justine Humphry is a senior lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her research examines the cultural and political implications of digital media and emerging technologies in everyday life including mobile, smart and robotic technologies. Her 2022 book Homelessness and Mobile Communication – Precariously Connected reveals the role of mobile media in the lived experience of homelessness and the consequences of smart cities and algorithmic governance for marginalised publics.

Chihyung Jeon is an associate professor of science and technology policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is interested in the feelings of control, empowerment, intimacy, anxiety, and loneliness that humans have in front of machines, including robots and AI systems. In the academic year of 2023, he is working as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives of the University of Tokyo.

Celia Spoden is a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo. Her research focusses on bioethical issues and the social impacts of digital transformation. In her current project she explores what opportunities and risks new technologies – especially telepresence and avatar technologies – mean for social participation and inclusion, and for interaction between human and human or human and machine. Her previous projects have included research on the relationship between life-sustaining treatments, social participation, and subjective quality of life.

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