„Do we shake hands with robots?“
A Ulysses Pact with Artificial Systems. How to Deliberately Change the Objective Spirit with Cultured AI
Bruno Gransches article “A Ulysses Pact with Artificial Systems. How to Deliberately Change the Objective Spirit with Cultured AI”, written in relation to his presentation at CEPE 2019, has now been published in the CEPE Proceedings 2019.
poliTE takes part in the Status and Networking Meeting of the BMBF in Berlin
From Nov 28th to 29th, 2019, the Status and Networking Meeting of the BMBF was held in Berlin. It was centered around the announcements “Autonomous Roboters for Assistance Functions: Interactive Basic Skills” („Autonome Roboter für Assistenzfunktionen: Interaktive Grundfertigkeiten“) and “Robots for Assistance Functions: Strategies of Interactions” („Roboter für Assistenzfunktionen: Interaktionsstrategien“).
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 […]
“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
About us
The Institute of Advanced Research at the University and CITEC at University of Bielefeld work on poliTE together.
Dr. Bruno Gransche
