Upcoming Events and Meetings

Regular Meetings

2nd Thursday of each month, 16:15-16:50 CET Technical Meeting, 17:00-18:00 CET Research Meeting (video conference)

All times are Central European Time (=Aachen, Paris, Stockholm, CET, GMT+1). Subtract 9hrs for Californian time, 6hrs for Pittsburgh time. Add 2hrs for Moscow.

Upcoming Events and Meetings

TUESDAY Jan 21, 2006: 16:15 Technical Meeting, 17:00 Research Meeting (video conference)
Conference in cooperation with the EHESS/CETSAH Lahlou-Fischler? seminar on Information Society. (physical location of speaker EHESS, salle du 4ème étage, 105 bd Raspail Paris 75006)

Charles Lenay, Professeur, Assistant Director of the COSTECH laboratory (Knowledge, Organization and Technical Systems), University of Technology of Compiegne, France charles.lenay@utc.fr
Perceptive Crossing in Technical Communities



ABSTRACT
In the perceptive crossings (like the crossing of glance or the caress) the perceptive activity of the subject is turned towards the perceptive activity of another subject. This situation makes possible for each one to constitute a face for the other. When it is by technical mediations that I perceive the world and the others, my face is transformed by the tools which I use. However, I do not see my "face" ("visage") whereas it is however my way "of aiming" ("viser") the objects and people around me.
But, if, in the dynamics of the interactions, I can guess the face which I present at the others, it can acquire social and emotional values. We want to show here that this dynamics can be set up in a community which shares the same technical mediations. To study the dynamics of perceptive interactions, we developed an original experimental device. It was conceived starting from sensory substitution systems that we develop for blind people. It allows an analysis of reciprocal perception (caresses) and of mutual recognition of the people in interaction. These observations show that it is possible to recognize the image which we present to others (our face) through the way in which they perceive us.
This research should help to understand the genesis of motivations to seize and use a tool. Our hypothesis is that these motivations depend of emotional values attached to the specific perceptions of this tool, and that these emotional values are constituted in the play of face-to-face interactions.

Past Events and Meetings

Please move past events and meetings to the table below for historical reference.

TUESDAY Jan 17, 2006: 16:15 Technical Meeting, 17:00 Research Meeting (video conference)
Conference in cooperation with the EHESS/CETSAH Lahlou-Fischler? seminar on Information Society. (physical location of speaker EHESS 105 bd Raspail Paris 75006)
Edouard Siregar, Cognitive Agents Research. On Some Universal Properties and Processes of Networks

"Networks organize nearly every aspect of our existence, ranging from microscale networks (neuronal nets, gene activation nets, protein interaction nets), to macro networks (internet, www, power grids, transport nets, social nets, ecosystem nets, physical instability nets), to cosmic galactic foam networks. Networks even dominate how ideas self-organize (science networks of falsifiable hypotheses, and AI agent's belief or Bayesian networks).
As unrelated as these networks seem, they can share common properties controlling their stability and robustness, and common dynamics governing their organization. We present some interesting universal traits of networks."

After obtaining degrees in mathematics and physics, Edouard Siregar was a doctoral fellow at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Paris-Meudon? to obtain a PhD in astrophysics. He was professor of physics at CUNY, New York, when he was invited by NASA to perform modeling and supercomputer simulations of complex nonlinear phenomena. He won a US NRC/National Academy of Sciences award for his work at NASA.
He became Principal Scientist in a NASA project involving intelligent agents, as part of NASA's 'Thinking Systems Initiative'. His current research focus is on artificial intelligence for science discovery and hypotheses formulation. He designed an Abstract Decomposition Analogy (ADA) agent and a science ontology (a dense network of falsifiable hypotheses). The ADA agent will serve as a 'Virtual Colleague' helping future researchers.

Nov 10, 2005: 16:15 Technical Meeting, 17:00 Research Meeting (video conference)
David Holman, RWTH Aachen University: Augmented paper interfaces (physical location of speaker: Aachen RWTH). (David's old home page)

Special conference in cooperation with the Fondation des Sciences de l'Homme/ EDF R&D seminar on Cognitive Technologies : Paul Bach y Rita, University of Madison-Wisconsin?. Evolving Concepts of Brain Function and Cognitive Development (physical location of speaker: EDF R&D LDC Clamart)

Oct 27, 2005: 17:00 Special Technical Meeting: Wiki tutorial - how to update the rufae.net web site. Come with some content you want to put online, whether people's pictures, CVs, papers, or past RUFAE presentations. One of the goals is to put a complete record of all past RUFAE talks online, with materials. (physical main site: Aachen RWTH)

Oct 13, 2005: 16:15 Technical Meeting, 17:00 Research Meeting (video conference)
Brad Johanson, Tidebreak.com: Developing the TeamSpot 2 collaborative software system (Physical location of speaker : Stanford CSLI)

Sep 8, 2005: Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech): The Aware Home project? (Physical location of speaker : Georgia Tech)

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Apr 2005: Nicolas Nova (CRAFT/EPFL) :Analysing the impacts of location awareness in mobile collaboration(Physical location of speaker : EDF R&D LDC Clamart)

Mar 10, 2005: Saadi Lahlou (EDF Paris): Cognitive attractors based design? (Physical location of speaker : EDF R&D LDC Clamart)


Feb 10, 2005: regular meeting
Jan 13, 2005: regular meeting
Dec 09, 2005: regular meeting
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