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Workshop on 'Avatar-Symbiotic Society'

2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ExCeL London, UK,

(Accepted)　May 29th, 2023　MW25: Avatar-Symbiotic Society

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)

Location: ICC Capital Suite 2

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

1.       Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Professor, Osaka University, Japan)

2.       Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Professor, Osaka University, Japan)

3.       Ms. Yukiko Horikawa (Research Engineer, ATR, Japan)

4.       Dr. Shinpei Kawaoka (Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Japan)

5.       Dr. Aomar Osmani (Associate Professor, CNRS LIPN, University Sorbonne Paris Nord)  

6.       Dr. Abdelghani  Chibani (Associate Professor, University Paris Est Créteil)

7.      Dr. Ghazaleh Khodabandelou (Associate Professor, University Paris Est Creteil)

8.　 Prof. Eric Matson (CERIAS center of Purdue University)

9.      Mr. Koji Kamei (Co-chair of OMG Robotics Domain Task Force, JARA/NTT, Japan)

10.    Prof. Edson Prestes (Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

11.    Dr. Jun Baba (Chief research scientist, CyberAgent, Inc.)

Schedule