Successful Project Launch – December 2017

From December 11th to 12th 2017, we held our first poliTE meeting at the FoKoS research centre in Siegen. Friederike Eyssel, Ricarda Wullenkord, Sebastian Nähr and Bruno Gransche discussed the method as well as the updated schedule and started going into some of the topics and terminology of the project. The combination of philosophers specialising in philosophy of technology and language and cultural philosophy on the one hand and social psychologists specialising in anthropomorphism in human-machine-interactions on the other led to engaging discussion and, as expected, to a comprehensive first set of terminology, topics and theories on „Social Adequacy for Assistance Systems“, such as hierarchy, habitualisation, provocation, or recognition, for example. Until our second meeting in March 2018, we will compose a method paper as part of our first worki package and conduct the first online surveys and reSuccessful Project Launch – December 2017search as part of our strategy.