[ACT-R-users] [Iri2012] || Int'l Symposium on "Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies", a CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+" || 27-28 March 2012, Laval FRANCE

[schmidt colin]

Can you please post this to your colleagues?
Thank you,
Colin Schmidt



||    Int'l Symposium on "Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging 
Technologies", a CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+"    ||    27-28 March 
2012, Laval FRANCE

Within the framework of the CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+", we are 
pleased to host:

Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies -March 27-28, 2012, 
10h-18h
http://www.laval-virtual.org/?p=87&l=en

Ingenieurium & Laval Theatre, France

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.

The following non-exhaustive list may be used to provoke thought on this 
topic: Keywords & Topics:

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.

Chair: Colin T. SCHMIDT, Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers ParisTech 
Lab, Laval France
Assistant to the Chair: Jayesh S. PILLAI : jayesh.spillai at gmail.com

Keynote Speakers:
AUBREY DE GREY. (Confirmed.) Biomedical Gerontologist SENS Foundation (UK)
JAMES MOOR. (Confirmed.) Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Dartmouth 
College (USA)
KEVIN WARWICK. (Confirmed.) Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University 
(UK)

Laval Virtual Gala Dinner, March 28, 20h (Exhibition Hall – Salle 
Polyvalente)

Program Committee
Jean-Claude ANDRE. Scientific Advisor to the CNRS (Risk Assessment and 
Nanotechnologies) & Institute of Engineering and Systems Sciences for 
forecasting, Socially Responsible Research (FR)
Jean-Michel BESNIER. CNRS Research Director in Philosophy, Centre for 
Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique & University of Paris 4 (FR)
Paul BOURGINE. CNRS Research Director in Complex Systems, Centre for 
Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique Paris (FR)
Nicole D’ALMEIDA. Professor of Communication, CELSA University of Paris 
4 (FR)
Jérôme GOFFETTE, Philosophy of Science, University Lyon 1—Claude Bernard 
& ENS, currently authoring "Human Enhancement - An Interdisciplinary 
Inquiry" (Palgrave) (FR)
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)
Edouard KLEINPETER. iscc-CNRS Scientific Officer, Specialist of Utopias, 
Human Enhancement and Communication, Paris (FR)
Lorenzo MAGNANI. Professor and Director, Computational Philosophy Lab, 
Pavia University & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (P.R.China, IT)
James MOOR. Professor of Ethics, Dartmouth College NH USA, Barwise Prize 
2006, Former Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines, (USA)
Vincent MULLER. Professor of Philosophy, American College of 
Thessaloniki & Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford 
(GR, UK)
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)
Serge PROULX. Professor of Social Informatics, UQAM Montréal & Télécom 
ParisTech (CA, FR)
Marc ROUX. President of the French Society for Transhumanism 
(‘L'Association Française Transhumaniste : Technoprog)
Natasha VITA-MORE. University of Plymouth & Chair Humanity+ (UK)
Shunji YAMANAKA. Industrial Designer, President of Leading Edge Design 
corp., Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio 
University, Japan (JP)


DEADLINE to submit a paper: January 23rd, 2012 <<<<
Submission website: www.laval-virtual.org
- Submission deadline: 23 January 2012
- Notification to Authors: 7 February 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission: Until 29 February 2012
- The authors of the best publications will be invited to submit a paper 
in the international journal IJODIR

Ingenieurium
4 rue de l’Ermitage
53000 Laval France
06 26 26 66 48
&
Le Théâtre de Laval,
34, rue de la Paix
53013 LAVAL FRANCE
Tél. : 02 43 49 19 55


A WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY ARTS ET METIERS PARISTECH and
ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012
SUPPORTED BY THE FRENCH NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTRE's 
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE, FRANCE
HTTP://WWW.ISCC.CNRS.FR

- - please circulate - - -

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C.T.A. SCHMIDT . D.Phil. Sorbonne (B.Sc., MA, M.Phil.)

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