24 Apr 2018

LSR 2018 at University of Montana, USA, is extremely thrilled to announce Keynote Speaker of Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix talking about Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Intimacy: A new Alternative form of relationship

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LSR 2018 at University of Montana, USA, is extremely thrilled to announce Keynote Speaker of Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix talking about Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Intimacy: A new Alternative form of relationship
 
Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix, is the artist and design director for the company, and brought the core Realbotix team together. He started Abyss Creations, the manufacturer of Realdoll, out of his garage in 1997. For the past 20 years he has been creating the “The World’s Finest Love Dolls”, as well as undertaking multiple custom projects along the way. McMullen’s dolls have popped up on more than 20 television shows and also co-starred in 10 films. Now, he focuses on integrating cutting edge technology with silicone doll artistry and believes that AI driven robots can become companions and partners to human beings, and can connect with us in ways that are often overlooked when considering these technologies.
23 Apr 2018

ACE 2018 is thrilled to announce ​Keynote Speaker Professor Peter Gray!

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Psychologist Peter Gray, faculty emeritus, photographed to accompany a story about his new book, “Free to Learn,” which concerns the importance of play for children’s healthy development and ability to thrive.

 

ACE 2018 is thrilled to announce ​Keynote Speaker Professor Peter Gray!
 
Peter Gray (born 1944) is an American psychologist who currently occupies the position of research professor of psychology at Boston College. He is the author of a widely used introductory psychology textbook, Psychology (Worth Publishers, with co-author David Bjorklund beginning with the 7th edition),[1] now in its seventh edition. The book broke new ground when the first edition was published (in 1991) as the first general introductory psychology textbook that brought a Darwinian perspective to the entire field. He is also author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013), and he writes a popular blog for Psychology Today magazine entitled “Freedom to Learn”.
 
Gray is a well-known critic of standard educational systems and is frequently invited to speak to groups of educators, parents, and researchers about children’s needs for free play, the psychological damage inflicted on children through our present methods of schooling, and the ways in which children are designed, by natural selection, to control their own education. He is a founder and current board president of the Alliance for Self-Directed Education, which is dedicated to promoting opportunities for Self-Directed Education for children and teenagers as replacement for coercive schooling. He is also a founder and board member of Let Grow, which is dedicated to renewing children’s freedom to play and explore, outdoors, in public spaces, without continuous adult supervision.
 
4 Apr 2018

Winner of the 2017 Travel Awards sponsored by Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

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Dear Colleagues,

 

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Travel Awards sponsored by Multimodal Technologies and Interaction:

 

Travel Awards was granted to Dr. Kate Cowan, a Research Associate at UCL Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University College London, UK

 

Dr. Kate Cowan’s current research focuses on children’s playful interactions and the role of new technologies in two contexts.  Introduction of Dr. Kate Cowan

 

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference in 2018.

 

Prof. Dr. Adrian David Cheok

Editor-in-Chief

Director of the Imagineering Institute, Iskandar Malaysia and Chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at City, University of London, UK

 

Dr. Cristina Portalés Ricart

Associate Editor

Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València

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