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Can you please post this to your colleagues? <br>
Thank you, <br>
Colin Schmidt<br>
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|| Int'l Symposium on "Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging
Technologies", a CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+" || 27-28 March
2012, Laval FRANCE<br>
<br>
Within the framework of the CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+", we are
pleased to host:<br>
<br>
Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies -March 27-28,
2012, 10h-18h<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.laval-virtual.org/?p=87&l=en">http://www.laval-virtual.org/?p=87&l=en</a><br>
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Ingenieurium & Laval Theatre, France<br>
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Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain
something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning
about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about
one's personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual
and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and
entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the
matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress
through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in
the name of progress people are increasingly willing to accept risk;
the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote
taking risks. But then again, could we or would we want to stop it?
If we are to enhance the human experience, the pros and cons of each
situation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting humans surely
raises a certain number of issues. What are they? What aspect of
life should one proceed to enhance? Which sectors or issues should
become priority elements? Which academic disciplines are involved
and why? What limits technological change? Does one have an
acceptance threshold? If so, how would one express it? What are the
long term implications of enhancement? Establishing a typology of
possible applications and their contexts would be desirable for this
symposium on enhancing members of our society.<br>
<br>
The following non-exhaustive list may be used to provoke thought on
this topic: Keywords & Topics:<br>
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Definitions of enhancement ▪ Robot companions for citizens ▪
Jungling multiple identities ▪ Advanced interfaces for increasing
social presence ▪ Augmented health ▪ Epistemology of tech.
innovation ▪ Care-giving robots ▪ Psychological analysis of
acceptance ▪ Augmented Well-being ▪ Ubiquitous internet or computing
▪ Social roles in emerging tech. contexts ▪ Holistic, pragmatic and
systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties ▪ Augmented
Context-Awareness ▪ Communication enabling and enhancing tech. ▪
Incommunicability ▪ Human factors psychology and needs assessment ▪
Mind/body problem ▪ New worlds and belief revision ▪ Moral and
ethical dimensions of enhancement ▪ Hybrid engineering ▪ Progress
and technological obsolescence ▪ Co-constructed experiences ▪
Interventionism or Science policy issues ▪ The notions of Self or
Identity in human experience ▪ Public information points and
communication devices ▪ Technological Singularity success or failure
▪ Roles of otherhood in one's experiences ▪ Cognitive enhancement ▪
Theoretical controversies ▪ Emergent intentional states ▪ The
intersection of the Arts, design and technology ▪ Transhumanistic
stances ▪ Augmented emotion ▪ etc.<br>
<br>
Chair: Colin T. SCHMIDT, Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers
ParisTech Lab, Laval France<br>
Assistant to the Chair: Jayesh S. PILLAI : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jayesh.spillai@gmail.com">jayesh.spillai@gmail.com</a><br>
<br>
Keynote Speakers:<br>
AUBREY DE GREY. (Confirmed.) Biomedical Gerontologist SENS
Foundation (UK)<br>
JAMES MOOR. (Confirmed.) Professor of Ethics and Philosophy,
Dartmouth College (USA)<br>
KEVIN WARWICK. (Confirmed.) Professor of Cybernetics, Reading
University (UK)<br>
<br>
Laval Virtual Gala Dinner, March 28, 20h (Exhibition Hall – Salle
Polyvalente)<br>
<br>
Program Committee<br>
Jean-Claude ANDRE. Scientific Advisor to the CNRS (Risk Assessment
and Nanotechnologies) & Institute of Engineering and Systems
Sciences for forecasting, Socially Responsible Research (FR)<br>
Jean-Michel BESNIER. CNRS Research Director in Philosophy, Centre
for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique & University
of Paris 4 (FR)<br>
Paul BOURGINE. CNRS Research Director in Complex Systems, Centre for
Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique Paris (FR)<br>
Nicole D’ALMEIDA. Professor of Communication, CELSA University of
Paris 4 (FR)<br>
Jérôme GOFFETTE, Philosophy of Science, University Lyon 1—Claude
Bernard & ENS, currently authoring "Human Enhancement - An
Interdisciplinary Inquiry" (Palgrave) (FR)<br>
Aubrey DE GREY. Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Science Officer,
SENS Foundation & Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research,
advisor to Humanity+, Maximum Life, Alcor and the Singularity
Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USA, UK)<br>
Edouard KLEINPETER. iscc-CNRS Scientific Officer, Specialist of
Utopias, Human Enhancement and Communication, Paris (FR)<br>
Lorenzo MAGNANI. Professor and Director, Computational Philosophy
Lab, Pavia University & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
(P.R.China, IT)<br>
James MOOR. Professor of Ethics, Dartmouth College NH USA, Barwise
Prize 2006, Former Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines, (USA)<br>
Vincent MULLER. Professor of Philosophy, American College of
Thessaloniki & Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of
Oxford (GR, UK)<br>
Jacques PERRIAULT. Emeritus Professor of Social Informatics,
University Paris 10 (Nanterre-La Défense), Senior advisor to the
issc-CNRS, Honorary President of the French Society for Information
and Communication Sciences -SFSIC- (FR)<br>
Serge PROULX. Professor of Social Informatics, UQAM Montréal &
Télécom ParisTech (CA, FR)<br>
Marc ROUX. President of the French Society for Transhumanism
(‘L'Association Française Transhumaniste : Technoprog)<br>
Natasha VITA-MORE. University of Plymouth & Chair Humanity+ (UK)<br>
Shunji YAMANAKA. Industrial Designer, President of Leading Edge
Design corp., Professor at the Graduate School of Media and
Governance, Keio University, Japan (JP)<br>
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<br>
DEADLINE to submit a paper: January 23rd, 2012 <<<<<br>
Submission website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.laval-virtual.org">www.laval-virtual.org</a><br>
- Submission deadline: 23 January 2012<br>
- Notification to Authors: 7 February 2012<br>
- Final Camera-Ready Submission: Until 29 February 2012<br>
- The authors of the best publications will be invited to submit a
paper in the international journal IJODIR<br>
<br>
Ingenieurium<br>
4 rue de l’Ermitage<br>
53000 Laval France<br>
06 26 26 66 48<br>
&<br>
Le Théâtre de Laval, <br>
34, rue de la Paix<br>
53013 LAVAL FRANCE<br>
Tél. : 02 43 49 19 55<br>
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<br>
A WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY ARTS ET METIERS PARISTECH and<br>
ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE 2012<br>
SUPPORTED BY THE FRENCH NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTRE's
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE, FRANCE<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="HTTP://WWW.ISCC.CNRS.FR">HTTP://WWW.ISCC.CNRS.FR</a><br>
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- - please circulate - - -<br>
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C.T.A. SCHMIDT . D.Phil. Sorbonne (B.Sc., MA, M.Phil.)</pre>
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