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EMOTIONS & MACHINES Conference

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The Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva is organising a one day interdisciplinary conference on Emotions and Machines. Emphasis will be particularly given to the possibility of genuinely emotional artificial agents, and the implications of such developments, as well as the benefits and hazards of emotion related technology generally. Submissions are invited of approximately 4500 words, suitable for 45 minute presentations.
21 August 2009 - 21 August 2009   University of Geneva, Switzerland
Call for Papers

Call for papers

Conference EMOTIONS & MACHINES
Friday 21st August 2009
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Submission deadline: April 30th

"As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines" Joseph Krutch

The Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva is organising a one day interdisciplinary conference on Emotions and Machines. Emphasis will be particularly given to the possibility of genuinely emotional artificial agents, and the implications of such developments, as well as the benefits and hazards of emotion related technology generally. Submissions are invited of approximately 4500 words, suitable for 45 minute presentations.

Relevant issues include:
  • The possibility of emotional machines.**
  • Whether emotions are necessary for true AI.**
  • The ethical implications of emotional machines.**
  • The emotions of human-machine interaction.
  • The extension or embodiment of human emotions by machines
  • The recognition of emotions by artificial systems.
** = prioritised themes.
In general, papers should be suitable for an interdisciplinary audience.

Please note that while we hope to reimburse travel & accommodation expenses, speakers should NOT expect to have their travel expenses paid until funding is confirmed.

Confirmed speakers so far:
Dylan Evans (Philosopher/behavioural scientist, University College Cork)
Etienne Roesch (Computational neuroscientist, Imperial College London)
Giovanna Varni (Music technologist, InfoMus Lab, University of Genoa)

Submissions should be sent to Dr Tom Cochrane thomas.cochrane@unige.ch by 30th April.
In exceptional cases, an extended abstract may be accepted in lieu of a complete paper submitted shortly afterward.
Deadline:  30 April 2009

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