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4. 9. 10:00 – 10:30

Horst Hörtner (AT)
Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab

4. 9. 10:30 – 15:45

Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D are currently conducting collaborative research into the next generation-relationship between humans and robots. From industrial robots supporting the production process to humanoid robots, many researchers have explored the range of possibilities for robots. Recently, these robot technologies are integrated mostly with information technology, and we see the robotization of physical space emerging. Therefore the applied research contains important questions, such as how will we integrate technologies like the “Humanoid Robot ASIMO” into our daily life, and how we can influence human acceptance and coexistence.

Panel 1: Human Robot Interaction Design
4. 9 10:30 – 12:30

In the Human-Robot Interaction Design session, we will discuss how we can apply methodologies from the fields of art, motion, communication, and interaction to the problem of finding ways in which human robot interactions become natural and intuitive.

Schedule

• 10:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:40 Matthew Gardiner (AU)
  Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 11:05 Anthony Dunne (UK)
  Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art
• 11:30 Golan Levin (US)
  Director Studio for Creative Inquiry and Professor of Electronic Art, Design and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• 11:55 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 12:15 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

Panel 2: Human-Robot Harmony
4.9. 13:30 – 15:45

What is essential in creating harmony in a society living together with robots? We will take a close look at the key elements in considering the balance – not the border – between humans and robots.

Schedule

• 13:30 Introduction by Christopher Lindinger (AT)
  Christopher Lindinger (AT), Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 13:40 Noel Sharkey (UK)
  Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield
• 14:00 Alan Shapiro (US/DE)
  Technologist and Futurist
• 14:20 Bernad Batinic (DE/AT)
  Professor and Head of the Psychology and Pedagogic Department at the University Linz
• 14:40 Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT)
  Artist & Creator in the Research and Innovation Group of the Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 15:00 Satoshi Shigemi (JP)
  Project Leader of the ASIMO Development
• 15:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Christopher Lindinger (AT) Director of Research and Innovation Ars Electronica Futurelab

4. 9 16:00 – 17:45

Real experiences and emotions play an important role for the immersive embedding of users in interactive entertainment & media formats that display great future promise. Here, the boundary between reality and virtuality becomes increasingly blurred. Interaction is considered the crux of modern digital media; it enables a global and mobile society to engage in new forms of exchange and encounter. Within the scope of this research, we are endeavoring to identify possibilities of how to playfully combine technology and entertainment, and what could serve as the basis of this fusion.

Schedule

• 16:00 Introduction by Roland Haring (AT)
  Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 16:20 Robert Praxmarer (AT)
  Researcher, multimedia artist and developer. Head of Department at the Augmented Reality & Games at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg.
• 16:40 Gordon Calleja, (MT)
  Head of the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.
• 17:00 Frank Rose (US)
  Contributing editor Wired magazine, writes about media, advertising and entertainment. His next book will be The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, forthcoming in 2011 from W.W. Norton.
• 17:20 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Roland Haring (AT), Senior Research Lead, Research and Innovation Group, Ars Electronica Futurelab

05.09. 10:00 – 12:45

The possibilities of integrating media design in architecture are vast and we have just begun to explore what we can do beyond putting big screens on façades. By converting the walls into a membrane for the dialog between the city and the citizens, we can construct attractive experiences that communicate the story of a building – be it commercial, as in retail environments, or educational, as in museums. We can respond to the need to find our way through endless corridors with the opportunity to create challenging artistic works.

Schedule

• 10:00 Introduction by Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)
  Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab
• 10:15 Eckehart Loidolt (AT)
  Architect and Director, Schneider+Schumacher/Wien
• 10:45 Tim Edler (DE),
  Managing Director, Realitis: United
• 11:15 Break
• 11:30 Chriss Bosse (DE)
  Architect, L.A.V.A (Skype conference)
• 12:00 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT), Director Media and Architecture, Ars Electronica Futurelab

5. 9. 14:00 – 17:00

If labs want to continue to lodge a claim to design excellence that they have rightfully earned, we’ll have to deal with the world around us. Incessantly progressing global warming, he widening of the so-called digital gap between urban areas and regions with lower-grade infrastructure and between industrialized and developing countries are just a few of the scenarios on which labs are expected to take a stand. The labs of the future will (have to) deploy their entire creative potential in order to utilize technology as a means of bringing about advances in other sectors (like social welfare and education) that have a major impact on culture.

Schedule

• 14:00 Introduction by Horst Hörtner (AT)
  Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT
• 14:30 Angela Plohman (CA)
  Director of BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven (NL). Has worked for the last twelve years in the field of art and technology.
• 15:00 Masa Inakage (JP)
  Dean and professor at Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University. Internationally-reknowned digital artist, director, and producer, one of Japan‘s leading authorities on emerging technologies and digital entertainment content production.
• 15:30 Zachary Lieberman (US)
  Artist and co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He teaches at Parsons School of Design.
• 16:00 Gary McDarby (UK)
  Expert in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, based in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory in University College Dublin.
• 16:30 Roundup and Discussion

Moderation: Horst Hörtner (AT), Laboratory Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT