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Affective (Kansei) Robotics in Japan: Designing and Programming Gender and Emotions in Humanoid Robots

January 23, 2023

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Type Lecture
Intended for General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / Companies / Junior high school students / High school students / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff
Date(s) February 20, 2023 16:00 — 17:30
Location Online
Venue Zoom Webinar
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method Advance registration required
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fHSPz5ORQ9OhjYuCdxZFUg
Registration Period January 23, 2023 — February 20, 2023
Contact tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
A number of humanoid robots in Japan have been supplied with gender and emotions, qualities that are stereotyped and greatly simplified in order to create algorithms. Artificial intelligence (AI), which is comprised of numerous algorithms, is useful for tasks that rely on pattern recognition, but AI can also perpetuate and reproduce the everyday social biases of their human designers. In this presentation, Prof. Jennifer Robertson discusses these robots and the implications that their design has for other industries, including surveillance.

Speaker
Jennifer ROBERTSON
Visiting Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo; Professor Emerita, University of Michigan

Commentator
NAGAI Yukie
Project Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo

Moderator
Hannah DAHLBERG-DODD
Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
 
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