(post is work in progress) we had to bring in extra chairs two times. way more people than expected! Robert Trappl with knitted brain cap Clara Haider technical demonstration, Machina…
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(post is work in progress) ALIEN INTROSPECTION (Director life streaming Michael Loizenbauer) See the video of our performance ALIEN INTROSPECTION at okto.tv here. ALIEN INTROSPECTION is the second episode of the media/performance…
Conference “Ignorance within the space of knowledge” was held at the main library of Upper Austria, in the city of Linz. Christoph Hubatschke and Oliver Schürer…
“For the second time, the Vienna Humanities Festival brings together personalities from the fields of scholarship, art, and culture for a sustained and inspiring exchange of ideas.” Initiated by the…
When using assistive systems, the consideration of individual and cultural meaning is crucial for the utility and acceptance of technology. Orientation, communication and interaction are rooted in perception and therefore…
Robots will become as ubiquitous as computers and smartphones and thereby profoundly transform many aspects of our daily lives. As the psychologist Sherry Turkle frames it, we have reached the “robotic moment”, the moment where we are ready to delegate important interactions of human relationships to robots. That means, we let social robots be the teaching companions for the young and the caretakers for the old. But it is not so much a question of building robots sophisticated enough for our company but whether we are ready for their company.