Robot (inter)faces: Understanding and mapping robot/avatar faces

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Description

April 2023. Invited to participate and contribute to the international workshop ‘Robot (inter)faces: Understanding and mapping robot/avatar faces’ held at Ito International Research Center, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo. Organised and chaired by Dr Arisa Ema and Dr Celia Spoden. In-person event in Tokyo.

Outline:
Faces are a vital feature of many robots/avatars, signifying the robot and avatar’s identity and emotion, indicating attention, and orienting the robot/avatar in physical and intersubjective space. They are central to the illusion of anthropomorphic personification, apparent liveness and presence. Adopting media philosophy, ethnographical approaches and STS to robots, this event explores the features and situated performances of robot and avatar’s faces.
Period11 Apr 2023
Event typeWorkshop
LocationTokyo, JapanShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Robot
  • STS
  • Emotions

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