Dear colleagues,
We would like to bring to your attention the JST CREST/ Patient@home /
SOSU Nord Future Lab Workshop on portable androids and its applications.
The workshop will be held in Aalborg, Denmark on Monday, March 2, 2015.
Please share this call for participation with your colleagues, mailing
lists and social networks.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
JST CREST / Patient@home / SOSU Nord Future Lab Workshop on
Portable Androids and their Applications
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Webpage:
http://hil.atr.jp/projects/CREST/DenmarkSymposium/program.html
Language: English
Date: 2nd March (Mon), 2015
Time: 10:00 - 17:30
(Registration: 09:30 - 10:00; Reception: 17:30 - 19:00)
Venue: SOSU Nord, Campus på Sporet
På Sporet 8A, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
https://goo.gl/maps/ZuP37
Registration:
https://www.greenticket.dk/event/1609?hash=a2cc63e065705fe938a4dda49092966f
Workshop outline:
In this workshop, we will present our results derived from our
trans-continental collaboration research project on teleoperated android
robots and their applications. Android robots are robots that are made
to appear similar to people. And teleoperated androids are androids that
are controlled by people to be used as communication device. In our
collaboration, we pursued the possibility that teleoperated androids
will be a future cellphone device following the popular devices nowadays
such as smartphones. These devices will be familiar to humans, and
intend to fill the gap between people and information systems.
People are versatile. Thus research needs to be approached from
versatile fields in many aspects. In this workshop, researchers from
various fields, such as from engineering, psychology, philosophy, social
care will present their ideas. Besides, researchers from different
cultures such as in Japan, Denmark, EU and US will gather to share the
results and discuss future directions. This workshop not only targets
researchers but also the general public; there will be regular
presentations as well as demonstrations where participants will have
firsthand experience of the actual robots that we have developed in this
project.
About JST / CREST project:
JST CREST research project “Studies on Cellphone-type Teleoperated
Androids Transmitting Human Presence” is going to finish its five-year
research on teleoperated androids. The aim of this study is to develop
cellphone-type teleoperated androids that enable us to transmit our
presence, anywhere and anytime. A user transmits his/her presence to a
remote place and the partner in distant location can talk to him/her
while feeling as if they are facing each other. Such new information
media have been designed to harmonize human with information environment
beyond existing personal computers and cellphones. This study explores
its potential as new human-harmonized communication media through social
experiments in various countries such as Japan and Denmark.
About Patient@home project:
Denmark is one of the countries with an advanced welfare system, and it
makes high-impact strategic decisions for the introduction of welfare
technologies. Patient@home is Denmark's largest welfare-technological
research and innovation initiative with focus on new technologies and
services. To assess which target groups can use the teleoperated
android, a number of partners in Patient@home, i.e., University of
Copenhagen, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
(ATR), Osaka University, Danish Institute of Technology (DTI), and
Aarhus University, are testing the robot for use in the Danish
healthcare sector, etc.
About SOSU Nord Future Lab:
SOSU Nord Future Lab cooperates regarding the implementation of robot
technology in health and welfare settings. SOSU Nord educates personnel
for the social and health sectors. SOSU Nord Future Lab argues that the
future staff in the health and welfare sector must be able to work with
advanced technologies including teleoperated robots. In the vocational
research, SOSU Nord Future Lab takes initiative in investigating the
usage of the android robot in dementia care.
Japan-Denmark Cooperation:
In March 2014, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt visited
Japan and had a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
They released “Joint Statement on the Establishment of a Strategic
Partnership for Growth and Innovation Between the Government of Japan
and the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark” for further bilateral
cooperation. The two leaders decided to establish concrete cooperation
within welfare technology, including robots and assistive technologies,
with the aim of developing better treatment and care for citizens within
the welfare sector. The two leaders further confirmed their commitment
to strengthen cooperation between Japanese and Danish authorities,
businesses and research institutions, and to explore possibilities for
enhanced cooperation in the welfare sector.
Program
Session 1: Opening and project overviews
Can teleoperated android robots redefine the way we communicate with
each other in the network society? Telecommunications technologies have
broadened our opportunities to interact socially with others, and
robotics has opened a new frontier for innovation and development of
communication media. The JST CREST project has developed portable
androids and is in their applications cooperating with SOSU Nord and
Patient@home with forward-looking projects of welfare technology. This
session describes the novel humanoid robotic approach, while figuring
out where we stand today in the evolution of communication media and
their services.
10:00 - 10:10 Anja Jørgensen (Director of SOSU Nord, Denmark)
Greeting, Introduction on Future Lab activities
10:10 - 10:25 Hiroshi Ishiguro (ATR Research Fellow / Distinguished
Professor, University of Osaka, Japan)
Symposium overview
10:25 - 10:35 Seishi Suei (Ambassador of Japan to Denmark)
Japan's robotics industry policy – in the context of
the growth strategy
10:35 - 10:45 Toyoaki Nishida (Professor, Kyoto University, Japan)
Overview of JST/CREST project
10:45 - 10:55 Uffe Kock Wiil (Professor, University of Southern
Denmark, Denmark)
Overview of Patient@home project
Session 2: Development and evaluation of portable androids
With the portable teleoperated androids such as the Telenoid, the JST
CREST project proposes a minimal human representation that allows any
person to transfer their own presence to a distant location, anywhere
and at any time. The androids have the flexibility to look like anybody
and embody the project’s intent to keep only the key features involved
in the communication for representing humans. This session specifies the
design concept, functionalities and basic evaluation of the androids.
11:10 - 11:25 Takashi Minato (Researcher, ATR, Japan)
Development of portable tele-operated androids based on
a concept of minimal human design
11:25 - 11:40 Yoshio Iwai (Professor, Tottori University, Japan)
Facial image processing for tele-presence robots
11:40 - 11:55 Carlos Toshinori Ishi (Group Leader, ATR, Japan)
Speech-driven motion generation technologies for
tele-presence robots
11:55 - 12:10 Hideyuki Nakanishi (Associate Professor, Osaka
University, Japan)
Unpacking avatars: appearance, motion, embodiment, and
teleoperation
12:10 - 12:25 Discussion for Session 2
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Session 3: Portable androids for aged citizens
The study on the portable androids explores their applications in field
experiments in which people interact with one another by their
mediation. With the focus on the social aspects of androids that may
facilitate human communications, the Telenoid has been applied to
dementia care in order to observe the elderly’s natural reactions to the
robot and to develop service models and new communication media. This
session reports the results from Japan and Denmark, and discusses the
androids’ potential for aged citizens of different nationalities.
13:30 - 13:45 Shuichi Nishio (Principal Researcher, ATR, Japan)
Portable android “Telenoid” for aged citizens: overview
and results in Japan
13:45 - 14:00 Barbara Klein (Professor, Frankfurt University of
Applied Sciences, Germany)
Introducing new technologies in the healthcare sector.
Acceptance factors of Telenoid in different settings
14:00 - 14:15 Christina Leeson (PhD Researcher, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark)
From an Unfamiliar Other to a Cherished Friend: The
Domestication of Telenoid in the Care of Elderly and Disabled People
14:15 - 14:30 Lone Gaedt (Senior Consultant, Danish Technological
Institute, Denmark)
DTI testing Telenoid for people with dementia and
developmental disorders
14:30 - 14:45 Jens Dinesen Strandbech (Project Lead, SOSU Nord, Denmark)
Humanoid robots in dementia-care: Investigating if
Telenoid alleviates symptoms of dementia
14:45 - 15:00 Byung-Kwang Yoo (Associate Professor, University of
California, Davis, USA)
Cost-effectiveness analysis of Telenoid / Hugvie
15:00 - 15:15 Discussion for Session 3
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee break / Teleoperated android demonstrations
Session 4: Portable androids for enhancing and discovering human experience
As new human-harmonized communication media, android robots are
developed with the hope of them becoming part of our daily life.
Technologies are not just neutral instruments, but are inherently
embedded in cultural contexts and even consequently could transform us.
The possibilities and limitations of all these types of robots can
potentially change our society and the human-robot interaction might
affect the very way in which we engage with each other and who/what that
‘other’ might be. Robotics challenges our core conceptions of what we
are and how we should be. This session aims to explore and expand the
contribution of scientific analyses to reflection on human
self-discovering through androids.
16:00 - 16:15 Takashi Minato (Researcher, ATR, Japan)
Facilitating communication by a robotic communication
medium
16:15 - 16:30 Marco Nørskov (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University,
Denmark)
A philosophical inquiry into android robotics
16:30 - 16:45 Hidenobu Sumioka (Group Leader, ATR, Japan)
Stress reduction of Hugvie and its application to education
16:45 - 17:00 Ryuji Yamazaki (Researcher, ATR, Japan)
Hugvie cross-cultural effect, what happens if genders
get mixed
17:00 - 17:15 Discussion for Session 4
Closing
17:15 - 17:20 Hiroshi Ishiguro (ATR Research Fellow / Distinguished
Professor, Osaka University, Japan)
Closing and future plans
17:30 - 19:00 Reception
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With best regards,
Ryuji Yamazaki
Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory, ATR, JAPAN
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