International workshop “Empirical research and new theoretical
approaches on social robotica”
Monday 12 May 2014 Via Prasecco 3/A, Pordenone, laboratorio L6
14.00-15.30 Prof. Joachim Höflich (University of Erfurt) will hold the seminar ““The Social
Incorporation of Robots”
15.45-17.15 Afifa el Bayed (Erfurt University) will hold the seminar “The Challenges of
Theoretically Framing the Study of Social Robots in the Context of Communication Sciences”
Prof. Joachim Höflich is a professor and researcher of communication studies at the University of
Erfurt. The fields of his teaching and research expertise include media use and effects, media
change and integration, mediated interpersonal communication, mobile communication as well as
communication and relationships with media such as social robots.
Ms. Afifa El Bayed is a research assistant and lecturer of communication studies at the University
of Erfurt. The fields of her teaching and research interest comprise mediated interpersonal
communication, communication with media including social robots, as well as social media and
collaborative innovation and production within their context.
With interventions by some master students of the University of Erfurt.
Tuesday 13 May 2014 Via Prasecco 3/A, Pordenone, laboratorio L6
9.00-10.30 Dr. Filippo Cavallo (Scuola di Sant’Anna) will hold the seminar (TBD)
10.45-12.15 Dr. Jane Vincent (London School of Economics) will hold the seminar “The Mobile
Phone - A Personalised Emotional Social Robot”
Biography
Jane Vincent PhD FRSA is Senior Research Fellow with the London School of Economics
and Political Science, Media and Communication Department and Visiting Fellow with the
Digital World Research Centre University of Surrey. Her current projects include risk and
safety regarding children’s use of mobile internet with the LSE; contrasting use of screen and
paper for reading and text with COST Action FP1104 and emotions and social robots. Jane
joined the University of Surrey as a Research Fellow in 2002 after 21 years in the
telecommunications industry. Jane researches the social practices of information and
communication technology users and her studies for industry and international academic
organisations on the social shaping of technology, children’s and older peoples’ use of mobile
phones, and migrants use of ICTs, have been widely published. Jane is author and editor of
numerous publications with Peter Lang, Springer and Routledge and reviewer for
leading journals and publishers. Her studies on emotions and mobile phones are widely cited
and her most recent work has been in exploring the role of the mobile phone as a social robot.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=j.m.vincent%40l
se.ac.uk
Suggested readings
Two Papers
Vincent, Jane (2013) Social
robots and emotion: transcending the boundary between
humans and ICTs Intervalla, 1.
Vincent, Jane (2006) Emotional
attachment and mobile phones Knowledge, Technology
and Policy, 19 (1). 39-44. ISSN 0897-1986