„Do we shake hands with robots?“ B. Gransche
4th poliTE and CITEC project meeting in Bielefeld
The 4th poliTE project meeting took place at CITEC, Bielefeld on June 25th/26th, during which the results from the last 18 monts were evaluated, reflected on, and discussed.
Conference on the integration of technological and social, legal and ethical research
Themed “Bringing Technology to the people” the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research takes on and realises projects dealing with Human-Machine-Interaction. All these projects aim at a humancentered development of technology that takes into account the actual, current and urgent needs of humankind. At the Fachkonferenz “Integrierte Forschung” we met fellow ELSI researches and developers […]
Another team member joined us!
Please welcome on board of our team: Stefania Reichberg. She will be assisting the FoKoS Team and has a background in anthropology.
“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
