Date
Thursday June 19, 2025 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PMLocation
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Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems InstitutePrice
freeBuilding
Neuron
Topic
A collection of interdisciplinary approaches to robots and emotions
Abstract
(MIT Press 2025) is a collection of pieces about robot-human emotions. This talk will present some of the insights its authors bring from fields as varied as critical studies, anthropology, HRI, design fiction, and sociology. But I will also reflect on the process and experience of drawing together these different voices into a conversation 鈥� first at a workshop and then in the book 鈥� and what the tensions and commonalities between our various methods and theoretical stances do for exploring questions about the robot-emotion relation.
About the speaker
Ericka Johnson is Professor of gender and society, Link枚ping University, Sweden and director of the Swedish national graduate school for the Wallenberg AI, autonomous systems and software program 鈥� Humanity and Society. She has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, gender studies, and science & technology studies. Johnson is the author of several monographs and anthologies, including A Cultural Biography of the Prostate (MIT Press 2021) and editor of How that Robot Made Me Feel (MIT Press 2025). She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Your host
Giulia Perugia of the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences will host Professor Ericka Johnson of Link枚ping University.
Registration is required but free of charge.
Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences
Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) aims to be leading in the area of industrial engineering and management science as well as in innovation sciences. The mission of IE&IS is closely tied to its pioneering work in developing an engineering perspective of business processes as well as its interdisciplinary research on transitions in societies in relation to technological change.
At the heart of our academic philosophy is the synergy between research and teaching. Moreover, IE&IS is a department of moderate size in which scholars and students work on critical problems at the interface of engineering, management, and innovation.
As a part of Eindhoven University of Technology, the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences focuses on research and education in:
- The analysis, (re)design, and control of operational processes in organizations and the information systems needed for these processes.
- The realization and impact of technological innovations at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.