Workshop Program

 

9:00 Introduction & Welcome

Damith Herath, Stelarc, Christian Kroos

Thinking Head Project, MARCS Auditory Laboratories,University of Western Sydney, Australia

9:10 HRI and the Arts: A Summary of the HRI 2010 Work Shop

William D. Smart

Willowgarage and Washington University in St. Louis

9:20 Inseparable Artificial Minds and Bodies

Christian Kroos, Damith Herath, Stelarc

Thinking Head Project, MARCS Auditory Laboratories,University of Western Sydney, Australia

  Session I
9:30 Invited Talk: Magnetic encounters and embodied conversations

Jane Goodall

Journalist and independent author

10:10 A Robot Acting Partner

David V. Lu(1), Chris Wilson(1), Annamaria Pileggi(2) and William D. Smart(1)

(1) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; (2) Performing Arts Department at Washington University

10:20 Science Fiction as an Educational Tool: Adopting Creative Writing Practices in the Engineering Classroom

Sarah Pérez-Kriz & Eva Dooley

Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington,

10:30 Science Fiction Prototyping: Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Speed Paper)

John R. Porter, Eva Dooley, and Nicole Kelly

Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

10:40 Coffee Break
  Session II
11:00 Invited Talk: Embodiment takes Command

Louis-Philippe Demers

Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre and the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

11:40 ROBOMO: A Futuristic Personalized-Accompanying Sociable Creature

Yuta Yoshiike, Takashi Fukui, P. Ravindra S. De Silva, and Michio Okada

Interactions and Communication Design Lab (ICD), Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN

11:50 Composition of Behaviour Primitives for Entertainment Humanoid Robots

Amos Salerno, Fabio Viziano, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonio Sgorbissa, Renato Zaccaria

Department of Computer, Communication and System Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

12:00 Lunch
  Session III
13:00 Invited Talk: Art and Robotics – Creation and Interaction

Mari Velonaki

Co-Director, Centre for Social Robotics, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney

13:40 A robotic flowers art installation for experimentation on human perception of robotics characters

Alexandre da Silva Simoes(1), Marcelo Nicoletti Franchin(2), Esther Luna Colombini(3), Jackson Paul Matsuura(3)

(1) Campus of Sorocaba, (2) Campus of Bauru, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista Sao Paulo, Brazil (3) ITA - Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Campus of Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

13:50 A comparison of collaborative approaches in robotic artworks

David St-Onge(1) , Nicolas Reeves(2) and Clement Gosselin(1)

(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada; (2) School of Design, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  Media Session (Video + Talk)
14:00 Artistic Robot Please Smile

Hye Yeon Nam(1), Changhyun Choi(2), and Sam Mendenhall(3)

(1) Digital Media, School of Literature, Communication; (2) Robotics & Intelligent Machines, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; (3) Human Computer Interaction, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

14:10 The Robot Etudes

Mark Yim(1), Jimmy Sastra(1) and Simon Kim(2)

(1) School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania; (2) School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

14:20 The new artist

Axel Straschnoy(1), H. Benjamin Brown(2), Geoffrey Gordon(3), Sue Ann Hong(4), Marek P Michalowski(5), Iheanyi Umez-Eronini(6), Garth Zeglin(7)(2), and Paul Scerri(2)

(1) independent artist based in Helsinki, Finland;(2) Robotics Institute, (3) Machine Learning Department, (4)Machine Learning Department; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; (5) BeatBots LLC, Pittsburgh; (6) Electrical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; (7) independent artist.

14:30 Colloquium on Performing Arts and Robotics

David V. Lu(1), Annamaria Pileggi(2), Justin Rincker(2), Ann Marie Mohr(2), and William D. Smart(1)

(1) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis; (2) Performing Arts Department, Washington University in St. Louis

14:40 Artobotics

Holly Yanco(1), Fred Martin(1), Hyun Ju Kim(2), Diana Coluntino(3), Adam Norton(3)

(1) Computer Science Dept., UMass Lowell; (2) Art Dept., UMass Lowell, KGIT (3) The Revolving Museum

14:50 lumiBots

Kronemann, M.L.(1), Hafner, V.V(2), Urbanz, P.(3)

(1) artist based in Berlin; (2) Cognitive Robotics Group, Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; (3) Technical University Berlin

15:00 Panel Discussion
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Mini‐Workshop: Designing the Future with Science Fiction

Sarah Pérez‐Kriz(1), Brian David Johnson(2),Eva Dooley(1)

(1) University of Washington; (2) Intel Corporation, USA

18:00 Workshop Closure