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poliTE at SPT 2019

poliTE at SPT 2019

Sebastian Nähr and Bruno Gransche spoke at SPT (the Society for Philosophy and Technology) at the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, College Station/Texas, USA. The conference dealt with technology and power. With the presentation “Oh Lord – Please Don‘t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Ihde, Ricoeur, and learning systems” Gransche addressed men-machine relations and […]

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Polite Technology as a path to morality? Bruno Gransche at CEPE

Bruno Gransche presented the project poliTE at CEPE (Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia/USA. The conference was organised by the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology and the Ionian University Research Team IHRC (Information: History, Regulation and Culture) and took place in May 2019. This year’s topic was risk and cybersecurity. Bruno […]

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“As a social psychologist, I am studying successful interactions with new technologies. How these are designed and how they work are key questions that are also addressed in poliTE. I am looking forward to investigate these aspects on an interdisciplinary level.” F. Eyssel F. Eyssel

"Culture is like an iceberg: the deeper layers (e.g. traditions, beliefs, values) are hidden from our view; we only see and hear the uppermost layer of cultural artifacts (e.g. fashio, trends) and of verbal and non-verbal symbols" Ting-Toomey 1999

ABOUT THE PROJECT

poliTE (“polite technology”) aims to analyse the ground- and framework for a new generation of „polite“ assistance systems on an interdisciplinary level and to create a network within the research community.

Duration: November 2017 – October 2020

Reference: 16SV7880K

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

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The Institute of Advanced Research at the University and CITEC at University of Bielefeld work on poliTE together.

Philosophy of Technology and New Human-Machine-Interaction

Dr. Bruno Gransche

Philosophy of Technology and New Human-Machine-Interaction
Applied Social Psychology and Gender Studies

Prof. Dr. Friederike Eyssel

Applied Social Psychology and Gender Studies
 

“In the future, technical systems are going to play an increasingly defining role in our everyday lives. How we can and maybe should interact with them is one of the central questions addressed in poliTE.” S. Nähr

 

“Intelligent Agents have already become ubiquitous. It is estimated that the world’s population of 7.4 billion people are connected through almost 8 billion mobile phones, approximately 3 billion of which are currently smartphones. In 2015 alone, 5.4 million service robots were sold to be used in households, according to estimates, this figure will increase to 42 million for the duration of poliTE.” B. Gransche