Dawid Kasprowicz: Encoding Proximity. Intuition in Human-Robot Collaborations, University of Potsdam
»Encoding Proximity. Intuition in Human-Robot Collaborations«
(Chair: Marie-Luise Angerer)
Lecture by Dawid Kasprowicz (University of Witten-Herdecke) at the conference »Affective Transformations: Politics. Algorithms. Media.« on November 1, 2017, University of Potsdam.
In the last ten to fifteen years, research in human-robot collaborations played an increasing role, not only in engineering sciences but also in the humanities. The question of the robots’ agency, their anthropomorphic design as well as the formalization of gestures has brought up numerous concepts that originally stem from humanities and that are now widely used in robotics. One of these concepts is intuition. Reminding us, in a general sense, of our daily use of »intuitive interfaces« on our mobile phones, intuition points to the paradox of a mediated immediacy. This is even more the case in robotics, where the process of coding haptics and gestures is deeply interwoven with models of non-verbal communication as well as the materialization of the robots’ body. The presentation describes the practices behind so called »intuitive human-robot collaborations« and asks for a material approach to the concept of intuition as algorithmic proximity.
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