Virtue and Affect for Social Robots

Day 1 | April 18 (Thursday)

 

8:30 AM | Reception

9:00-9:15 AM | Welcoming Speech

JeeLoo Liu, Faculty Organizer

Cadenkumar Hise, Student Organizing Committee Chair

 

9:15–10:45 AM | “Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?”

Colin Allen, Philosophy
University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair: Diego Rojas

Respondent: Grant Ashley

 

10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break with Fruit and Nut Bar

 

11:00 –12:30 PM | “What Emotions for Robots?”

Raffaele Rodogno, Philosophy
University of Lausanne and EPFL, Switzerland

Chair: Sara Amintinat

Respondent: Masha Rapp

 

 

12:30–2:00 PM | Lunch Break

 

2:00–3:30 PM | “Roles of Affect in Computational Architectures for Social Robots”

Matthias Scheutz, Computer Science
Tufts University

Chair: Nathan Padilla

Respondent: Fatimah Alamouri

 

3:30-3:45 PM Short Coffee Break with Refreshments 

 

3:45–5:15 PM | “Machines can shape social interactions with artificial emotions, but should they?”

Jonathan Gratch, Computer Science and Psychology
University of Southern California

Chair: Masha Rapp

Respondent: Liliana Anderson

 

5:30-6:30 PM | Alumni Session:

Risa Flores, CSUF Philosophy Graduate of 2022

Chair: Brandon Alonso-Ramos

Respondent: Cadenkumar Hise

 

7:00 PM | Dinner Reception