Program
Program – 4th Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics 2019
| Sun Feb 3rd | NYUAD Campus | Embodiment, affect, and reciprocity in human-robot interaction | |||
| Start | End | Activity | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Title |
| 9:00 | 12:10 | Morning session – Conference Center – Chair: Mohamad Eid | |||
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Introduction | Engineering Division | NYUAD | Welcome speech |
| 9:10 | 9:50 | Keynote | Yukie Nagai | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) | Computational Models of Predictive Coding for Robot Cognitive Development |
| 9:50 | 10:20 | Invited talk | Malte Jung | Cornell University | Robots and the Dynamics of Emotions in Teams |
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:40 | 11:10 | Invited talk | Mohammad Obaid | UNSW Sydney | Designing Assistant Classroom Robots – A User-Centered Approach |
| 11:10 | 12:10 | Roundtable | Embodying Interaction: the Enactive roots of Reciprocity and Affect | ||
| 12:10 | 13:20 | Lunch | |||
| 13:20 | 17:00 | Afternoon session – Conference center – Chair: Max Cappuccio | |||
| 13:20 | 14:00 | Keynote | Tom Ziemke | Linkoping University | Intentions & Intentionality: Challenges for Social Robotics |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Invited talk | Ron Chrisley | Sussex University | Applying the Deflationary View of Robot Ethics to Reactive Agents |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Invited talk | Chu Kiong Loo | University of Malaysia | Trusting Humanoid Robots Undertake Social Tasks |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Coffee break | |||
| 15:20 | 15:50 | Invited talk | Riccardo Manzotti | IULM Milano | Enworlded Social Robots: Beyond Embodied and Enactive Cognition |
| 15:50 | 17:00 | Exhibition | |||
| 17:30 | 17:45 | Bus transfer to Sheraton Hotel | |||
| 19:00 | 21:00 | Social dinner at Almayass Restaurant | |||
| Mon
Feb 4th |
NYUAD Campus | Engineering solutions for implementing social intelligence | |||
| Start | End | Activity | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Title |
| 9:00 | 12:00 | Morning session – Conference center – Chair: Friederike Eyssel | |||
| 9:00 | 9:40 | Keynote | Abdlmotaleb El Saddik | University of Ottawa | Digital Twin: The Convergence of Multimedia Technologies |
| 9:40 | 10:10 | Invited talk | Jeff Shamma | KAUST | Game Theoretic Methods for Robotics |
| 10:10 | 10:40 | Invited talk | Antonis Argyros | University of Crete | Computer Vision for Supporting Human Robot Interaction and Collaboration |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Challenge | |||
| 12:00 | 13:10 | Lunch | |||
| 13:10 | 16:10 | Afternoon session – Conference center – Chair: Fady Alnajjar | |||
| 13:10 | 13:50 | Keynote |
Farshad Khorrami |
New York University | Autonomous Vehicles: Navigation, Autonomy, and Security |
| 13:50 | 14:20 | Invited talk | Tonio Ball | University Clinic Freiburg | How is Robot Action Reflected in the (Neuro)-Physiological Responses of a Human Observer? |
| 14:20 | 14:50 | Invited talk | Juan Moreno | Cajal Institute Madrid | Designing Technologies for Gait After Stroke |
| 14:50 | 15:10 | Coffee break | |||
| 15:10 | 16:10 | Roundtable | Technical and ethical challenges to build socially intelligent robots | ||
| 16:30 | 18:30 | Bus transfer to Danat Al Ain Resort and hotel check-in | |||
| 19:30 | 21:00 | Dinner at Danat Al Ain Resort | |||
| Tuesday Feb 5th | UAEU Campus | Neurocognitive approaches to social robotics: an interdisciplinary endeavour | |||
| Start | End | Activity | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Title |
| 9:00 | 12:05 | Morning session – Science & Innovation Park – Chair: Fady Alnajjar | |||
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Introduction | CHSS Dean Hassan Naboodah | UAEU | Welcome speech |
| 9:10 | 9:50 | Keynote | Giorgio Metta | IIT | Building your Personal Humanoid |
| 9:50 | 10:15 | Invited talk | Mohamad Bdiwi | Robotics department, Fraunhofer IWU | Intelligent Industrial Robots for Smart Factories |
| 10:15 | 10:40 | Invited talk | Shuzhi Sam Ge | NUS | Historical and Futuristic Perspectives of Robotics |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:25 | Invited talk | Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem | Osaka University | Real-Time MEG-based Brain-Geminoid Interface |
| 11:25 | 11:50 | Invited talk | Shingo Shimoda | RIKEN | Biological Methods Applied to Robot Control |
| 11:50 | 12:05 | Invited talk | Peer Muhamad Ali | Al Ain Hospital | Social Robotics for Human Performance Improvement |
| 12:05 | 13:20 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:20 | 16:00 | Afternoon session – CIT Building, AI & Robotics Lab – Chair: Mohamad Eid | |||
| 13:20 | 14:00 | Keynote | Agnieszka Wykowska | IIT | Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Roundtable | Interdisciplinarity and diversity in social robotics research: challenges and opportunities (in collaboration with International Journal of Social Robotics / Springer) | ||
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Tour of AI & Robotics Lab (College of IT, UAE University) | |||
| 16:20 | 17:00 | Bus transfer to Jabel Hafeet | |||
| 18:00 | 20:00 | Social dinner at Hotel Mercure Grand Jabel Hafeet | |||
| 20:00 | 20:20 | Bus transfer to Danat Al Ain Resort | |||
| Wed Feb 6th | UAEU Campus | Robots & AI in society: economical, cultural, and political impact of autonomous systems | |||
| Start | End | Activity | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 9:00 | 12:00 | Morning session – Science & Innovation Park – Chair: Max Cappuccio | |||
| 9:00 | 9:40 | Keynote | Jai Galliott | UNSW Canberra | The Soldier’s Tolerance for Autonomous Systems |
| 9:40 | 10:10 | Invited talk | Francesco Ferro | PAL Robotics | Human-Robot Interaction and AI, the Key for Service Robotics |
| 10:10 | 10:40 | Invited talk | Robb Cheek | Hyundai Securities | Society and Social Robotics. A Market-Driven View |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Exhibition | |||
| 12:00 | 13:20 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:20 | 17:00 | Afternoon session – Science & Innovation Park – Chair: Friederike Eyssel | |||
| 13:20 | 14:00 | Keynote | Somaya Ben Allouch | Amsterdam University of Applied Science | The Appropriation of Social Robotics |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Invited talk | Lakmal Seneviratne | Khalifa University | Challenges in Designing Robotic Systems for Safe Autonomous Human Interactions |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Coffee break | |||
| 14:50 | 15:20 | Invited talk | Aila Khan | WSU | Image Transfer with Social Robots |
| 15:20 | 15:50 | Invited talk | Eduardo B. Sandoval | UNSW Sydney | Addiction to Robots: From Science Fiction Representation to Real Addiction |
| 15:50 | 16:50 | Roundtable | The Global Race to AI and Autonomous Agents: The stakes of Technological Supremacy | ||
| 16:50 | 17:00 | Final remarks and end of symposium | |||
| 17:20 | 17:40 | Bus transfer to Danat Al Ain Resort | |||
| 19:30 | 21:00 | Dinner at Danat Al Ain Resort | |||