Dear colleagues,

We kindly invite you to join our Full Day Workshop: "Avatar-Symbiotic Society" to be held at IEEE ICRA 2023 conference in London on May 29th, 2023.
We encourage the submission of poster contributions on topics related to the workshop until April 30th, 2023.
The poster session will be held in hybrid. Please let us know your preference at the time of submitting your poster.

Please find more details below, and in our website
https://dil.atr.jp/ITB/en/proposed-workshop/

Looking forward to your contributions and participation!

Kind regards,
The workshop organizers,
Takahiro Miyashita(ATR), Takashi Yoshimi(Shibaura Institute of Technology), Abdelghani Chibani(UPEC), Yacine Amirat(UPEC)

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Abstract

This workshop aims at presenting the ongoing progress of the Moonshot (MS) human-centered long-term R&D program. It will discuss by focusing to deal with the future realization of an avatar-symbiotic society and cybernetic avatars (CAs).　In the workshop, semi-autonomous tele-operated robots and CG agents are called CAs. We discuss the suitable way of an avatar-symbiotic society and the direction of future R&D. CAs are expected to offer humans a myriad of virtual and physical services to free us from limitations of body, brain, space, and time in order to perform active social roles without constraint. The goal for the field of CAs' study is to develop and implement avatar-symbiosis within a harmonious future society. The technologies and services will enable a diverse range of social activities via remote operation where users interacting or teleoperating CAs in the cyber and the physical worlds seamlessly. These services are expected to augment capabilities and sometimes compensate for disabilities of people from various social backgrounds, in particular those related to the physical, cognitive, perceptual even gender domains. The discussion of the workshop will help us to adapt and adjust to a new human-centered 'Cybernetic Avatar Life.'

Submissions

Poster submission: please submit by the submission deadline a poster title and an extended abstract (max 2 pages) in PDF format (IEEE conference regular paper template) via email to the organizer Prof. Takashi Yoshimi(emails: yoshimit@sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp).

All contributions will undergo a review by the organizers. Authors of accepted abstracts will have to prepare a poster and present it in person during the workshop.

Important dates

  • Call for poster submission deadline: April 30th, 2023
  • Notification of acceptance : May 10th, 2023
  • Workshop date: May 29th, 2023

See you in London!

Takahiro Miyashita, Ph.D
Interaction Science Laboratories
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Kyoto, Japan
Email: miyasita@atr.jp
Web: https://dil.atr.jp/ITB/en/