Center affiliate Prof. Jeff Krichmar is co-organizing a workshop on “Interacting with Robots Through Touch” at UC Irvine on September 13, 2016:
Workshop On Interacting with Robots Through Touch at UC Irvine
September 13, 2016
9AM – 6PM
1517 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, University of California, Irvine.
Register at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma/haptics_workshop.html
Description:
Robots and autonomous systems are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday life. In particular co-Robots, in which robots have a symbiotic relationship with people, have the potential to increase social well-being and open up new socioeconomic opportunities. For example, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), co-Robotics, and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) are increasingly being used for entertainment, education, telepresence, rehabilitation and therapy. SARs have the potential to help children with developmental disorders, such as autism or attention deficit disorders. Social robots can act as digital ethnographers by: automatically detecting what robot-generated activities children enjoy most, monitoring development of social structure within the classroom. To date, most of these co-robots focus on eye contact (e.g., shared attention, shared gaze, etc.) and auditory cues (e.g., catch phrases and music), but tend to neglect other sensory systems important for social behavior,!
such as tactile interaction.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the use of tactile sensing in HRI and SARs. The day will include talks by invited speakers and a poster session. If you are interested in presenting a poster on this topic, send your abstract to: jkrichma@uci.edu
Confirmed Speakers:
- Andrea Chiba, University of California, San Diego
- Deborah Forster, University of California, San Diego
- William Harwin, University of Reading
- Guy Hoffman, Cornell University
- Jeffrey L. Krichmar, University of California, Irvine
- Francis McGlone, Liverpool JM University
- David J. Reinkensmeyer, University of California, Irvine
- Veronica J. Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
- Michael Tolley, University of California, San Diego