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http://www.androidscience.com/ CALL FOR PAPERS Toward Social Mechanisms of Android
Science A CogSci2005 Workshop Theme and goals The embodiment of social and cognitive theories in
interactive robots sets a high bar for their evaluation. Theories that
reify descriptions relying on a human interpreter for their grounding
cannot be implemented in autonomous systems. The demands of coherently
integrating responses cross-modally and coping with open, socially complex
environments limit the applicability of theories that "grew up in the
laboratory." Androids will be confronted with circumstances that exhibit
complex closely-coordinated social dynamics, where stable
patterns emerge at various spatial and temporal scales, and expectations
depend in part on a histories of interaction that are unique to individual
relationships. We define an android to be an artificial system that has
humanlike behavior and appearance and is capable of sustaining
natural relationships with people. Although people may know that
an android is not human, they would treat it as if it were, owing to
the largely subconscious responses it would elicit. To pass the
Total Turing Test, an android would need have the inclination toward "mind
reading" that is characteristic of people. The development of androids is
beyond the scope of mere engineering because, to make the android
humanlike, we must investigate human activity, and to evaluate
theories of human activity accurately, we need to implement them in an
android. Thus, we need an android science. The aim of this workshop is to begin to lay a foundation
for research in android science, a new field that integrates the
synthetic approach from robotics with the empirical methodologies of the
social sciences. Participants, coming from engineering and the social,
cognitive, and biological sciences seek fundamental principles
underlying cognition and communication between individuals. Cognition is not
viewed as solely a property of brains, to be understood at a
micro-structural level, nor as socially-definable and separable from biomechanical or
sensorimotor constraints. By highlighting agent-world relations,
androids have the potential for helping researchers to bridge the gap
between cognitive neuroscience and the behavioral sciences, leading to a
new way of understanding human beings. Thus, we hope to find
principles that will apply equally well to androids and Homo
sapiens. Topics of interest - The role of affect and motivation in social
development or communication - Empathic relationships among people and/or
robots - Inter-species co-evolution, cooperation, and
empathy - Processes of socialization and
enculturation - Extended relationship - Social learning and adaptation, especially from
people - The evolution, development, and nature of agency,
intentionality, or social intelligence - Software architectures for embodied social
interaction - The grounding, emergence, or acquisition of
communicative signs or symbols - Mimesis and its role in communication and
development - The development or implementation of hierarchies of
meaning - Models of personal, interindividual, group, or
cultural norms - Cross-modal synchronization or stabilized plasticity
in speech and/or gesture - Learning with and from
machines - Androids working alongside people as
peers - Applications in human
environments - Ethical issues concerning
androids - Perception of naturalness, attractiveness, or
charisma - The relationship between appearance and perceived
behavior - Android personalities - Emotional intelligence - The Total Turing Test Target participants Robotics engineers and computer scientists with an
interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern
recognition, and control, especially those whose target platform includes
humanoid robots; psychologists and
sociologists who are concerned with real-time embodied communication or social
development; cognitive scientists who are concerned with the
relationship between brain processes and social dynamics; social and comparative
biologists; and philosophers. The workshop is of interest to the target participants
because androids will provide a critical test bed for social and
cognitive theories in the future, and research in this domain depends on
interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers and natural and social
scientists. Submissions: Submissions must be made to the following address by
email: They must be in PDF and conform to the APA Style Manual
and the formatting guidelines of CogSci2005:
http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/submission.html
Deadlines: Paper title and outline: Electronic paper submission deadline:
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