Franklin Hosts Workshop: Social Robots and Emotion
07/13/2011
Collaborating with some of her long-time colleagues, Professor Satomi Sugiyama, Department of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin College Switzerland, organized an international exploratory workshop entitled "Social Robots and Emotion: Transcending the Boundary between Humans and ICTs" from June 03 to June 04, 2011.
The interdisciplinary workshop explored the notion of social robots from humanoid social robots to humanized mobile devices in order to understand the relationship between humans and machines, focusing particularly on emotion. Thanks to the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Franklin College Switzerland and the Franklin College Switzerland Green Leaves Fund, 13 world-leading researchers came together at the Franklin College Switzerland campus to discuss their research and to explore future research collaboration.
The two-day workshop was composed of the following presentations (listed alphabetically):
Nello Barile (IULM University of Milan, Italy)
My Robotic Feelings: A Pattern Recognition about Human and Artificial Emotional Capital
Naomi S. Baron (American University, U.S.A.)
Lessons from Venice: Emotions, Authenticity, and ICTs
Sabrina Bresciani (University of Lugano, Switzerland), Martin J. Eppler (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Margaret Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
The Impact of Visual Mapping on Emotion and Cognition
Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy)
Mediated Communication and the Social Contract
Joachim R. Höflich (University of Erfurt, Germany)
Relationships to Social Robots: Towards a Triadic Analysis of Media-Oriented Behaviour
James E. Katz (Rutgers University, U.S.A.)
Emotional Reactions to Social Robots
Amparo Lasén (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain)
Digital Inscriptions, Materialised Emotions and Loss of Embarrassment: Some Thoughts about the Technological Mediations of Affectivity
Christine Linke (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Meaningful Rituals, Meaningful Social Technologies: Exploring the Emotional Relations to ICTs in People’s Everyday Lives
Kevin McGee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Our Mixed Feelings about Social Agents
Marco Pasch and Monica Landoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
DEDUCE: Design of New Tools to Express Emotions during User-Centered Evaluations
Satomi Sugiyama (Franklin College, Switzerland)
Exploring Use Patterns and Metaphors for the Relationship between People and the Mobile Device in a Case of Japan: A Consideration of Social Robots and Emotion
Jane Vincent (University of Surrey, U.K.)
Body to Body Interaction in Broadband Society
The workshop yielded highly stimulating and lively discussions. The participants are now moving on to developing their research projects further as well as starting up new collaborative work in order to facilitate the scholarly understanding of social robots and emotion. The workshop working papers will be published in Franklin’s new online interdisciplinary academic journal in 2012.
