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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
VIKTORIA INSTITUTE, GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN
JANUARY 13-14, 2005:
DESIGNING ROBOT APPLICATIONS FOR EVERYDAY USE
http://www.viktoria.se/fal/events/robotworkshop
How can robot research inspire applications for people's everyday lives
and habits? Perhaps our future butlers will not look like humanoids, but
be like tiny insects that cooperate in large numbers to perform complex
tasks? Today, entertainment robots are given characteristics that make
them suitable as pets or to provide comfort, domestic robots are designed
to help with housekeeping such as vacuum cleaning or lawn mowing, and
professional service robots to support security and health care. Robots in
more basic research (e.g. insect-inspired robots) are not explicitly
designed to serve humans in social settings. Still, many of these robots
have appealing human-robot and robot-robot interaction properties (e.g.
emergence of behaviours, self-assembly, sensing and communication
abilities). These characteristics can inspire entirely novel robot
applications for domestic as well as other everyday settings, such as a
schools and workspaces.
The workshop aims to investigate and explore possible robot applications
in domestic and other everyday environments. The specific robots explored
in the workshop can be domestic and entertainment robots (e.g. Sony's
Aibo, Nec's PaPeRo), humanoids (e.g. Honda's Asimo, Sony's Qrio)
professional service robots, insect inspired robots and robots on wheels
(like the so-called SwarmBots created in a European project). We hope that
each participant has an interest in a specific robot, and that the
characteristics of that robot will inspire one or several applications.
The motivation is to invent robot applications that make it interesting
for people to interact with robots on an everyday basis. We are interested
in questions such as: What characteristics of robots can create new
possibilities for everyday interactions with humans? What novel robot
services can be achieved with combining several robots in an everyday
setting, or by combining robots with other media?
We expect all participants to send a one page personal statement before
the workshop. During the workshop participants will hold a brief
presentation (10 min) to introduce robots used in their own research. We
also encourage participants to bring physical demonstrators or posters.
This will be used as a basis when brainstorming about possible
applications.
To participate, first please send an expression of interest to Sara
Ljungblad ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible. We will then contact
you with full details.
Timeline:
Expression of interest As soon as possible!
Personal statement and registration December 20
Workshop date: January 13-14, 2005
A minor fee will be charged to cover expenses such as lunch and guest
speaker. Information about the fee and travel and accommodation details
can be found on the workshop webpage:
http://www.viktoria.se/fal/events/robotworkshop
Organisers
Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Göteborg
www.viktoria.se/fal
This workshop is an initiative based on research conducted within the
EC-Agents project.
EC-Agents project homepage: http://ecagents.istc.cnr.it/
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