Seminar Multisensory Internet Communication and Virtual Love Chaired by Sir Peter Williams CBE, Speakers Adrian David Cheok and David Levy

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Love and sex with robots seminar

 

Seminar details:

26 November 2013

Event time: 6:00 – 7:20pm

Drinks reception: 7:20pm – 8:00pm

Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle, London NW1 4QP

Organised by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

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Seminar

Multisensory Internet Communication and Virtual Love

The era of hyperconnected internet allows for new embodied interaction between humans, animals and computers, leading to new forms of social and physical expression. The technologies being developed will in the future augment or mix the real world together with the virtual world. Humans will be able to experience new types of communication environments using all of the senses, where we can see virtual objects in the real environment, virtually touch someone from a distance away, and smell and taste virtual food. Our physical world will be augmented with sensors connected to the internet, buildings and physical spaces, cars, clothes and even our bodies. During the seminar, we will discuss some different research prototype systems for interactive communication, culture, and play. This merging of computing with the physical world may lead to us developing personal feelings for computers, machines and robots, which we will discuss in the second part of the seminar. In the second part, we will be inviting the audience to join us in an exploration of the limits of artificial intelligence. What will it mean for society when artificial intelligence researchers succeed in creating sophisticated artificial personalities, artificial emotions and artificial consciousness? When robots are also endowed with the ability to recognize what we say and what we mean, will they be able to carry on interesting, amusing, intelligent and friendly, even loving conversations with us? How will humans react to this new breed of “person” that can say “I love you” and mean it? These are some of the questions that will touch on the possibility of love, sex and marriage with robots.

 

About the contributors

Professor Adrian David Cheok Professor Adrian David Cheok is Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London and Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab. His background is in Engineering, and he gained his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 1999. After working at the National University of Singapore and Mitsubishi Electric in Japan, he became Professor at Keio University in the Graduate School of Media Design. His research is concerned with mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers, pervasive and ubiquitous computing. He is a recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Hitachi Fellowship, the Microsoft Research Award in Gaming and Graphics and the SIP Distinguished Fellow Award, and was designated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008. Professor Cheok often discusses his work on media outlets such as the BBC, CNN and the Discovery Channel, and also works as Editor in Chief of three academic journals, one of which is Lovotics: Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots.

 

Dr David Levy Dr David Levy is President of the International Computer Games Association, and CEO of the London based company Intelligent Toys Ltd. He graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 1967, and moved into the world of business, professional chess playing and writing. He has written more than thirty books on chess, and was awarded the International Master title by FIDE, the World Chess Federation in 1969. In 1968, David started a bet with four Artificial Intelligence professors that he would not lose a chess match against a computer program within ten years. He won that bet. Since 1977 David has been involved in the development of many chess playing and other programs for consumer electronic products. David’s interest in Artificial Intelligence has expanded beyond computer games into other areas of AI, including human-computer conversation, and in 1997 he led the team that won the Loebner Prize competition in New York, which he won again in 2009. His fiftieth book, Love and Sex with Robots, was published in November 2007, shortly after he was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht for his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners.

 

Sir Peter Williams CBE (chair)
Sir Peter Williams CBE is the Chairman of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He has previously served as Honorary Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society, Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory, Chancellor of the University of Leicester, Chairman and Chief Executive of Oxford Instruments plc, Deputy Chief Executive of VG Instruments Ltd., Master of St. Catherine’s College Oxford, Chairman of Trustees of the Science Museum and Chairman of the Engineering & Technology Board. He has advised Government on issues of science and education, including the ‘Williams Review’ of primary mathematics in 2008 and in 2010 was a member of an international review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the UN Secretary General. He was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Call For Papers Symposium “Love and Sex with Robots” at AISB 50 Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014

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Symposium “Love and Sex with Robots” at AISB 50

Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014

AISB is the pre-eminent society in the UK for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (www.aisb.org.uk). In 2014 AISB celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The AISB 50 Annual Convention 2014 will be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, from April 1st – 4th.

This is a Call for Papers for a one day symposium, “Love and Sex with Robots”, which will take place during AISB 50. The exact date within the April 1st-4th timeframe will be announced shortly.

Symposium Overview

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

The symposium welcomes submissions on the following topics, inter alia:

Robot Emotions
Humanoid Robots
Clone Robots
Entertainment Robots
Robot Personalities
Teledildonics
Intelligent electronic sex hardware
Gender Approaches
Affective Approaches
Psychological Approaches
Sociological Approaches
Roboethics
Philosophical Approaches

Submission and Publication Details

Submissions must be extended abstracts of approximately 400-500 words, and should be sent via email to both:

Professor Adrian Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing, City University, London:
Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk

Dr. David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd., London:
davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

For the final submission of accepted papers text editor templates from previous conventions can be found at:

http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html

Each extended abstract will receive at least two reviews.

We request that for those papers that are accepted on the basis of their extended abstracts, the final submitted papers be limited to 8 pages. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least one author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities.

Important Dates

i. 21st January 2014 – Deadline for submission of extended abstracts.

ii. 3rd February 2014 – Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions

iii. 24th February 2014 – Final versions of accepted papers (camera ready copy)

iv. 1st – 4th April 2014 – AISB 50

Additional Information

Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Each delegate will receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue.

Program committee:

Joanna Bryson, University of Bath
Adrian Cheok, City University, London
David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente
Dennis Reidsma, University of Twente
Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Organizing committee:

Professor Adrian Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing, City University, London:
Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk

Dr. David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd., London:
davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

Jordan Tewell, City University, London
mastaegg@gmail.com

Keynote Speech at Immersive Media Experiences 2013 “Multisensory Mixed Reality with Smell and Taste” Adrian David Cheok http://immersiveme2013.di.fc.ul.pt/keynote.html

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Call For Papers Symposium “Love and Sex with Robots” at AISB 50 Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014

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Symposium “Love and Sex with Robots” at AISB 50
Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014

AISB is the pre-eminent society in the UK for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (www.aisb.org.uk). In 2014 AISB celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The AISB 50 Annual Convention 2014 will be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, from April 1st – 4th.

This is a Call for Papers for a one day symposium, “Love and Sex with Robots”, which will take place during AISB 50. The exact date within the April 1st-4th timeframe will be announced shortly.

Symposium Overview

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

The symposium welcomes submissions on the following topics, inter alia:

Robot Emotions
Humanoid Robots
Clone Robots
Entertainment Robots
Robot Personalities
Teledildonics
Intelligent electronic sex hardware
Gender Approaches
Affective Approaches
Psychological Approaches
Sociological Approaches
Roboethics
Philosophical Approaches

Submission and Publication Details

Submissions must be extended abstracts of approximately 400-500 words, and should be sent via email to both:

Professor Adrian Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing, City University, London:
Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk

Dr. David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd., London:
davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

For the final submission of accepted papers text editor templates from previous conventions can be found at:

http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html

Each extended abstract will receive at least two reviews.

We request that for those papers that are accepted on the basis of their extended abstracts, the final submitted papers be limited to 8 pages. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least one author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities.

Important Dates

i. 21st January 2014 – Deadline for submission of extended abstracts.

ii. 3rd February 2014 – Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions

iii. 24th February 2014 – Final versions of accepted papers (camera ready copy)

iv. 1st – 4th April 2014 – AISB 50

Additional Information

Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Each delegate will receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue.

Program committee:

Joanna Bryson, University of Bath
Adrian Cheok, City University, London
David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente
Dennis Reidsma, University of Twente
Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Organizing committee:

Professor Adrian Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing, City University, London:
Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk

Dr. David Levy, Intelligent Toys Ltd., London:
davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

Jordan Tewell, City University, London
mastaegg@gmail.com