Workshop on 'Avatar-Symbiotic Society'
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ExCeL London, UK,
(under reviewed)
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.’
Format
Full-day (hybrid)
Organizers
Takahiro Miyashita (ATR)
Takashi Yoshimi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Abdelghani Chibani (UPEC)
Yacine Amirat (UPEC)
List of topics
The list of topics is as follows (but not limited to).
- Cybernetic Avatars technologies,
- Tele-operated robots and CG agents as avatars,
- Biological investigation for avatar users,
- Standardization of semantic services development,
- Learning methods to model context, behaviors and intentions, emotions and mental states,
- Continuum between Virtual and Physical Locations,
- Haptics and Interaction between physical and virtual objects,
- Planning life and Handling Contingencies with CAs,
- Multiagent systems research for CAs,
- Conversational AI,
- Transparency and Trust in the Cas world,
- Metaverse vs CAs, and
- Ethics issues
List of Speakers (tentative)
1. Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Professor, Osaka University, Japan)
2. Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Professor, Osaka University, Japan)
3. Dr. Shinpei Kawaoka (Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Japan)
4. Dr. Takahiro Miyashita (Director, ATR, Japan)
5. Ms. Yukiko Horikawa (Research Engineer, ATR, Japan)
6. Dr. Aomar Osmani (Associate Professor, CNRS LIPN, University Sorbonne Paris Nord)
7. Dr. Craig Schlenoff (Senior Researcher, Group Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
(Associate Vice President for Standardization, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)
8. Prof. Edson Prestes (Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
9. Dr. Abdelghani CHIBANI (Associate Professor, University Paris Est Créteil)
10. Dr. Kristiina Jokinen (Senior Researcher AI Research Center, AIST, Japan)
11. Dr. Suyoung Chi (KAR/ETRI, Korea)
12. Prof. Takashi Yoshimi (Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
13. Mr. Koji Kamei (Co-chair of OMG Robotics Domain Task Force, JARA/NTT, Japan)
14. Dr. Jun Baba ( Chief research scientist, CyberAgent, Inc.)
Schedule (tentative)
| Time | Talk | Comments |
| 10:00 - | Session #1 | Session Title: Avatar Symbiotic Society and Related Technology Session Chair: Takahiro Miyashita (ATR, Japan) |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | S1-K | Keynote 1: Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ., Japan) The Realization of an Avatar-Symbiotic Society where Everyone can Perform Active Roles without Constraint |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | S1-1 | Short talk 1-1: Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Osaka Univ., Japan) Cooperative control of multiple Cybernetic Avatars |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | S1-2 | Short talk 1-2: Ms. Yukiko Horikawa (ATR, Japan) Software Platform for Cybernetic Avatars and its field experiments |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | S1-3 | Short talk 1-3: Prof. Shinpei Kawaoka (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Integrative biological analyses on how avatars and devices affect users |
| 11:40 - 13:00 | Lunch Time | |
| 13:00 - | Session #2 | Session Title: Avatar Related Services enabled with Semantic AI Technology Session Chair: Prof. Yacine Amirat, (UPEC, France) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | S2-K | Keynote 2 (tentative): Researcher of Metaverse, from Meta Title: The possibility of the Metaverse |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | S2-1 | Short talk 2-1: Dr. Kristiina Jokinen (AIST, Japan) RASA Meets ROS: Conversational Agents for Robots |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | S2-2 | Short talk 2-2: Dr. Aomar Osmani (University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France) Domain-Knowledge theories and Meta learning to enhance Cybernetic avatars' cognitive capabilities |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | S2-3 | Short talk 2-3: Prof. Abdel Chibani (UPEC, France) Integrating Spatio-temporal Ontologies with Learning and Planning Semantic Services |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 - | Session #3 | Session Title: Standardization and Realization Session Chair: Prof. Takashi Yoshimi (SIT, Japan) |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | S3-K | Keynote 3: Dr. Craig Schlenoff (NIST, USA) Robotics and AI Standards within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | S3-1 | Short talk 3-1: Mr. Koji Kamei (JARA/NTT, Japan) Robotic Service Technologies in OMG: Robotic Interaction Service Framework and Robotic Service Ontology |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | S3-2 | Short talk 3-2: Prof. Edson Prestes (UFRGS, Brazil) Ethics in the core of AI and Robotic Systems Design |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | S3-3 | Short talk 3-3: Dr. Jun Baba (Cyberagent, Inc., Japan) Sota 100: Field Experiments for Cybernetic Avatars in Avatar Symbiotic Society |
| Wrap up |