[Air-L] 3 doctoral positions: caring robots
William Fearon
william.fearon at mail.com
Wed Dec 11 08:26:57 PST 2019
Dear Ganiat & Katherine,
I must say Ganiat, that your hotlink suggestion ended up in a fog. It
led to a place called nowhere. I could not see the logic in the
posting itself nor in the content of the web page you selected for my
enlightenment. My posited question to you, was an elementary one fit
for first year undergraduate students of Philosophy in Sweden,
Nederland the US and in GB. You failed to even begin to answer it.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 12:20 PM
From: "Ganiat.Kazeem" <ganiat.kazeem at open.ac.uk>
To: "William Fearon" <william.fearon at mail.com>
Cc: "Katherine Harrison" <katherine.harrison at gmail.com>,
"air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] 3 doctoral positions: caring robots
The answer to that is probably going to be
Here: [1]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots
Miss Ganiat Omolara Kazeem | PhD researcher at the Open University,
Critical Information Studies research group [CIS], Department of
computing and communications, Faculty of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics [STEM] & The OU Centre for Policing
Research and Learning [CPRL]
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
[2]ganiat.kazeem at open.ac.uk | ORCID iD [3]0000-0002-4312-3022
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[4]Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to
break.
[5]Bill James
— Quoted in Gray, Scott (2006). The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete
Outsider Changed Baseball. New York: Doubleday. pp. 191.
ISBN 0-385-51464-6.
On 11 Dec 2019, at 11:29, William Fearon <william.fearon at mail.com>
wrote:
What is an 'ethical reason?'.
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 8:06 PM
From: "Katherine Harrison" <katherine.harrison at gmail.com>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] 3 doctoral positions: caring robots
We are currently accepting applications to 3 fully funded, 4 year PhD
positions associated with the research project, ‘The ethics and
social
consequences of AI and caring robots. Learning trust, empathy and
accountability’.
(deadline 30 January 2020, start date August 2020).
The project is led by Ericka Johnson and Katherine Harrison at Tema
Genus,
Linköping University, Sweden. More information can be found:
[1][6]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots
The PhD positions are fully funded (i.e. provide full-employment
within
the
Swedish system, including paid holidays and other standard social
benefits,
etc.) and can be extended up to a fifth year by teaching
opportunities
if
applicable.
Position 1: Designing care robots
What bodies are assumed in the design of companion robots, and how
does
the
design of the robot affect its interactions with humans? This project
focuses on how care and affect are materialised in the body of the
companion robot, with particular critical attention to intersections
of
gender, ethnicity and ability. An additional area of inquiry could
examine
how the material design features of the robot's body are mediated
through
affective programming software to produce a more intimate encounter.
Position 2: Learning data for companion robots.
How can robots learn to care when collecting data on relevant humans
may be
limited for ethical reasons? Or if real data contain bias, on which
data
should you train your data? Generative machine learning techniques
(such as
generative adversarial networks (GANs)) offer a solution to problems
with
“real” data such as scarce availability, labour intensity of data
labelling, data biases, or privacy intrusiveness. This project
comprises a
critical inquiry into the production/collection of data sets used to
help
companion robots learn, and particularly the possibility of using
GANs
to
assist with this.
Position 3: The affective space between human and companion robots
Current advances in robotics often focuses on refining robots to
learn
about and respond better to humans. However, interacting well with a
robot
also requires significant learning on the part of the human
participant.
This project focuses on the affective space between human and robot,
and
the work that both participants must learn to do to create an
emotional
relation characterised by care and trust.
Interested? Please contact us with any questions (Ericka Johnson <
ericka.johnson at liu.se> and Katherine Harrison
<katherine.harrison at liu.se>)
Applications are made through the Linköping University web interface:
[2][7]https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=12652&
rmlan
g=UK
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References
1. [11]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots
2.
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References
1. https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots
2. mailto:ganiat.kazeem at open.ac.uk
3. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4312-3022
4. https://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/bill-james/66403#rigidity
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6. https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots
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