22.5087, Calls: Comp Ling, Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Neuroling/France

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Date: 11-Dec-2011
From: Colin Schmidt [Colin.Schmidt at ensam.eu]
Subject: Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies

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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:28:35
From: Colin Schmidt [Colin.Schmidt at ensam.eu]
Subject: Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies

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Full Title: Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies 

Date: 27-Mar-2012 - 28-Mar-2012
Location: Laval, France 
Contact Person: Colin Schmidt
Meeting Email: Colin.Schmidt at ensam.eu
Web Site: http://www.laval-virtual.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Jan-2012 

Meeting Description:

Within the framework of the CNRS project named EpistHOMME+, we are pleased to host Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies at VRIC Laval Virtual.

A Workshop sponsored by Arts et Métiers ParisTech and organised under the aegis of The Virtual Reality International Conference 2012
Supported by the French National Scientific Research Centre's Communication Sciences Institute, France
Ingenieurium & Laval Theatre, France

Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one's personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in the name of progress people are increasingly willing to accept risk; the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote taking risks. But then again, could we or would we want to stop it? If we are to enhance the human experience, the pros and cons of each situation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting humans surely raises a certain number of issues. What are they? What aspect of life should one proceed to enhance? Which sectors or issues should become priority elements? Which academic disciplines are involved and why? What limits technological change? Does one have an acceptance threshold? If so, how would one express it? What are the long term implications of enhancement? Establishing a typology of possible applications and their contexts would be desirable for this symposium on enhancing members of our society.

This conference is seeking contributions from linguists to address philosophical, biological, social, and computational issues in language as they relate to the advancement of technology. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- The cognitive model of language and the mental lexicon
- Computational modeling of language
- Diachronic projections of language
- Alternative speech behaviors and their impact on emerging technologies
- 'Social' machines and their acceptance in society

Ingenieurium
4 rue de l'Ermitage
53000 Laval France
06 26 26 66 48

Le Théâtre de Laval, 
34, rue de la Paix
53013 Laval France
Tél. : 02 43 49 19 55 

Call for Papers:

The following non-exhaustive list may be used to provoke thought on this topic: 

Keywords and Topics:

- Definitions of enhancement 
- Robot companions for citizens 
- Juggling multiple identities 
- Advanced interfaces for increasing social presence 
- Augmented health 
- Epistemology of technological innovation 
- Care-giving robots 
- Psychological analysis of acceptance 
- Augmented Well-being 
- Ubiquitous internet or computing 
- Social roles in emerging tech. contexts 
- Holistic, pragmatic and systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties 
- Augmented Context-Awareness 
- Communication enabling and enhancing technology
- Incommunicability 
- Human factors psychology and needs assessment 
- Mind/body problem 
- New worlds and belief revision 
- Moral and ethical dimensions of enhancement 
- Hybrid engineering 
- Progress and technological obsolescence 
- Co-constructed experiences 
- Interventionism or Science policy issues 
- The notions of Self or Identity in human experience 
- Public information points and communication devices 
- Technological Singularity success or failure 
- Roles of otherhood in one's experiences 
- Cognitive enhancement 
- Theoretical controversies 
- Emergent intentional states 
- The intersection of the arts, design and technology 
- Transhumanistic stances 
- Augmented emotion 
- Etc.

For more information on submission guidelines, please view our website:

http://www.laval-virtual.org

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 23 January 2012
Notification to authors: 7 February 2012
Final camera-ready submission: Until 29 February 2012

The authors of the best publications will be invited to submit a paper in the international journal IJODIR.

Chair: Colin T. Schmidt, Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers ParisTech Lab, Laval France
Assistant to the Chair: Jayesh S. Pillai 

Program Committee:

Jean-Claude Andre, Scientific Advisor to the CNRS (Risk Assessment and Nanotechnologies) & Institute of Engineering and Systems Sciences for forecasting, Socially Responsible Research (FR)
Jean-Michel Besnier, CNRS Research Director in Philosophy, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique & University of Paris 4 (FR)
Paul Bourgine, CNRS Research Director in Complex Systems, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique Paris (FR)
Nicole d'Almeida, Professor of Communication, CELSA University of Paris 4 (FR)
Marcelo Dascal, Emeritus Professor Dept. of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University & President of the International Association for the Study of Controveries; Founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal of Pragmatics and Cognition; Humbolt Prize 2002 and ISSA Prize 2006 (IL)
Jérôme Goffette, Philosophy of Science, University Lyon 1 - Claude Bernard & ENS, currently authoring 'Human Enhancement - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry' (Palgrave) (FR)
Aubrey de Grey, Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation & Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, advisor to Humanity+, Maximum Life, Alcor and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USA, UK)
Edouard Kleinpeter, iscc-CNRS Scientific Officer, Specialist of Utopias, Human Enhancement and Communication, Paris (FR)
Lorenzo Magnani, Professor and Director, Computational Philosophy Lab, Pavia University & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (P.R.China, IT)
James Moor, Professor of Ethics, Dartmouth College NH USA, Barwise Prize 2006, Former Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines, (USA)
Vincent Muller, Professor of Philosophy, American College of Thessaloniki & 
Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford (GR, UK)
Jacques Perriault, Emeritus Professor of Social Informatics, University Paris 10 (Nanterre-La Défense), Senior advisor to the issc-CNRS, Honorary President of the French Society for Information and Communication Sciences -SFSIC- (FR)
Serge Proulx, Professor of Social Informatics, UQAM Montréal & Télécom ParisTech (CA, FR)
Marc Roux, President of the French Society for Transhumanism ('L'Association Française Transhumaniste : Technoprog)
Natasha Vita-More, University of Plymouth & Chair Humanity+ (UK)
Shunji Yamanaka, Industrial Designer, President of Leading Edge Design corporation, Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan (JP)

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