Opendata, web and dolomites

EMTECH SIGNED

Emotional Machines:The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 EMTECH project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the EMTECH project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "EMTECH" about.

engineers    sustain    consequently    robot    purpose    artistic    sciences    theoretical    structures    palliative    register    companion    kinds    contributions    emtech    argues    yield    promises    humans    emotionally    privacy    adoption    analyzes    care    technologies    relationships    intelligence    methodological    expanding    signs    claim    social    leveraging    implementing    qualitative    critique    consciously    humanities    intimacy    mass    raised    aesthetic    collection    conductance    models    designers    affective    expressions    elicit    scientific    human    machines    bonds    emotion    primary    skin    fundamentally    heart    ethnographic    cutting    media    relationship    employed    interaction    works    theory    textual    understand    create    robotics    laboratories    central    literary    data    inform    domestic    centers    tradition    collect    rate    homes    japan    robots    ethical    hypothesis    forms    transforming    cultural    intelligent    understandings    generating    emotional    home    emotions    played    groundbreaking    imaginaries    edge    public    facial    artificial    capacities    engineering    inspiring    record   

Project "EMTECH" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN 

Organization address
address: KAISERSWERTHER STRASSE 16-18
city: BERLIN
postcode: 14195
website: www.fu-berlin.de

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Germany [DE]
 Total cost 1˙489˙919 €
 EC max contribution 1˙489˙919 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-08-01   to  2022-07-31

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN DE (BERLIN) coordinator 1˙489˙919.00

Map

 Project objective

EMTECH analyzes the relationship between aesthetic works on human-robot interaction in Japan and cutting-edge advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. Its central hypothesis argues that a tradition of literary, artistic, and other media forms of cultural production on human-robot relationships particular to Japan is currently being built into emotionally-intelligent companion robots with the ability to understand, record, and elicit emotions in its users, consequently expanding the capacities for humans to create affective bonds with machines and transforming structures of intimacy that sustain traditional social institutions. In its most ambitious claim, EMTECH argues that this cultural tradition has played a primary role in inspiring the recently-emerging mass production of domestic robots with technology that can register and record facial expressions, heart rate, skin conductance, and other signs of affect not consciously recognized by humans, thus generating new kinds of scientific data on human affect that fundamentally challenges previous understandings of emotion. Through the textual analysis of literary work on robot imaginaries and ethnographic fieldwork on human-robot interaction in homes, palliative care centers, and engineering laboratories, EMTECH’s purpose is to collect qualitative data on new technologies of emotion management in order to advance literary and cultural theory’s contributions to the affective sciences, as well as to inform public discussions on issues of data collection, privacy, and other ethical concerns raised by the adoption of emotionally-intelligent robots in the home. Leveraging research in the humanities to critique emotional models employed by robotics engineers and designers, and implementing novel research methods such as the use of robots in both literary critique and ethnographic fieldwork, EMTECH promises to yield groundbreaking data of both theoretical and methodological application across the human sciences.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Daniel White
Contemplating the Robotic Embrace: Introspection for Affective Anthropology
published pages: 1-7, ISSN: , DOI:
More-than-Human Worlds: A NatureCulture Blog Series June 20, 2018 2019-06-06
2018 Daniel White
“Critique in the Gap.” Comment on Sasha Newell’s “The Affectiveness of Symbols:Materiality, Magicality, and the Limits of the Antisemiotic Turn.”
published pages: 18-19, ISSN: 0011-3204, DOI:
Current Anthropology Vol. 59, Issue 1 2019-06-06

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "EMTECH" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "EMTECH" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.1.)

KineTic (2020)

New Reagents for Quantifying the Routing and Kinetics of T-cell Activation

Read More  

CARBYNE (2020)

New carbon reactivity rules for molecular editing

Read More  

PATHOCODE (2020)

Molecular pathology of anti-viral T cell responses in the central nervous system

Read More