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Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Workshop [Group 2018]

  • 1.  Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Workshop [Group 2018]

    Posted 10-30-2017 08:02

    This all-day workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines who share an interest in the future of work, particularly how humans and intelligent machines will collaborate together. We define intelligent machines as both material (e.g., robots) and immaterial (e.g., algorithms) computing technologies that can be characterized by autonomy, the ability to learn, and the ability to interact with other systems and with humans.

    The workshop has three goals centered on the theme of convergence: "the deep integration of knowledge, techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks."

    1) Identify specific, interdisciplinary research problems around work and intelligent machines.
    2) Develop a common language base that can facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration.
    3) Identify information and cyber-infrastructure needs to support the resulting research collaborations.

    A key distinguishing feature of convergence research is that it is centered around a challenging real-world problem. Therefore, an initial goal of the workshop is to discuss and come to some consensus about specific important and challenging transdisciplinary research problems. Second, we want to start to develop an integrated language base about the problems, phenomena, and issues surrounding work and intelligent machines, which can act as a boundary object to connect researchers and research done in disparate disciplines. Third, we want to define and use cases for technology, shared data and resources and cyber-infrastructure that support convergence research within the GROUP community and beyond.


    Call for Participation
    Participation is open to anyone interested in the topic, with a limit of 25 people. To be considered, please provide us with a 1000-word essay in response to the following prompts:

    1) Articulate what you consider to be a challenging problem related to work at the human-technology frontier.
    2) Provide an empirical example (or two) of this problem.
    3) Imagine how we might design a research project (or two) to address this problem.

    We will use this material as a basis for group activities throughout the day.

    Email your position papers to waimrcn@gmail.com by November 17, 2017. Notifications will be determined by December 1, 2017.


    This workshop will take place as a part of Group 2018 in Sanibel Island near Ft. Myers Florida, USA.

    Best regards,

    Lionel


    New Paper(s): Robots are Here...:) 

    You, S., Ye, T., Robert, L. P. (2017). Team Potency and Ethnic Diversity in Robot-Supported Dyadic Teams, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Dec 10-13, Seoul, Korea. Link to copy provided by the author http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138124.

    You, S. and Robert, L. P. (accepted in 2017). Emotional Attachment, Performance, and Viability in Teams Collaborating with Embodied Physical Action (EPA) Robots, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, (JAIS), link to the preprint version http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/136918.

    You, S. and Robert, L. P. (2017). Teaming Up with Robots: An IMOI (Inputs-Mediators-Outputs-Inputs) Framework of Human-Robot Teamwork, International Journal of Robotic Engineering, (IJRE), 2(3), link to the preprint version http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138192.

    Robert, L. P. (2017). The Growing Problem of Humanizing Robots, International Robotics & Automation Journal, (IRAJ), 3(1), Article 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/iratj.2017.03.00043, link to the author's copy http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138018.


    Lionel P. Robert Jr.
    Associate Professor
    Core Faculty, Robotics Institute
    Director of MARVIC
    Co-Director of SIT Lab
    University of Michigan