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SUMMARY:Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies
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LOCATION:Laval\, France
DESCRIPTION:<p>Young \nand old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if \nbetter informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an \nearly stage helps in making key decisions\n about one's personal future. Although the approach is somewhat \nindividual and devoted to those concerned\, collectively oriented health \nand entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the \nmatter.</p>\n<p>Government\n policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring \nwill renew itself in a relevant way. However\, in the name of progress \npeople are increasingly willing to accept\n risk\; the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote \ntaking risks. But then again\, could we or would we want to stop it? If \nwe are to enhance the human experience\, the pros and cons of each \nsituation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting\n humans surely raises a certain number of issues. What are they? What \naspect of life should one proceed to enhance? Which sectors or issues \nshould become priority elements? Which academic disciplines are involved\n and why? What limits technological change? Does\n one have an acceptance threshold? If so\, how would one express it?&nbsp\;  What are the long term implications of enhancement? Establishing a \ntopology of possible applications and their contexts would be desirable \nfor this symposium on enhancing members of our society.</p>\n<p><strong>Keywords &amp\; Topics</strong>:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Definitions of enhancement <br></li>\n<li>Robot companions for citizens <br></li>\n<li>Jungling multiple identities<br></li>\n<li>Advanced interfaces for increasing social presence<br></li>\n<li>Augmented health<br></li>\n<li>Epistemology of tech. innovation<br></li>\n<li>Care-giving robots<br></li>\n<li>Psychological analysis of acceptance<br></li>\n<li>Augmented Well-being<br></li>\n<li>Ubiquitous internet or computing<br></li>\n<li>Social roles in emerging tech. contexts<br></li>\n<li>Holistic\, pragmatic and systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties<br></li>\n<li>Augmented Context-Awareness<br></li>\n<li>Communication enabling and enhancing tech.<br></li>\n<li>Incommunicability<br></li>\n<li>Human factors psychology and needs assessment<br></li>\n<li>Mind/body problem<br></li>\n<li>New worlds and belief revision<br></li>\n<li>Moral and ethical dimensions of enhancement<br></li>\n<li>Hybrid engineering<br></li>\n<li>Progress and technological obsolescence<br></li>\n<li>Co-constructed experiences<br></li>\n<li>Interventionism or Science policy issues<br></li>\n<li>The notions of Self or Identity in human experience<br></li>\n<li>Public information points and communication devices<br></li>\n<li>Technological Singularity success or failure<br></li>\n<li>Roles of otherhood in one's experiences<br></li>\n<li>Cognitive enhancement<br></li>\n<li>Theoretical controversies<br></li>\n<li>Emergent intentional states<br></li>\n<li>Transhumanistic stances<br></li>\n<li>Augmented emotion <br></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE to submit a paper: January 23rd\, 2012</strong></p>\n<p>Submission website: <a target="_blank">www.laval-virtual.org\n<br> </a></p>\n<p>Submission deadline: 23 January 2012<br>Notification to Authors: 7 February 2012<br>Final Camera-Ready Submission: Until 29 February 2012<br>The authors of the best publications will be invited to submit a paper in the international journal IJODIR<strong><br><br></strong></p>
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