{"id":4179,"date":"2017-06-19T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:32:24","slug":"workshop-do-robots-blush-the-design-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"[workshop] Do Robots Blush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4180\" src=\"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1220\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-288x188.jpg 288w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-1116x730.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-806x527.jpg 806w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-558x365.jpg 558w, https:\/\/soomipark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/cafe_embarrassment-_lowres-copy-655x428.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am going to lead a design workshop, \u2018Do Robots Blush?\u2019 as one of this year\u2019s Designers in Residence events at <a href=\"https:\/\/designmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Design Museum<\/a> together with <a href=\"https:\/\/unitlab.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unit Lab<\/a>\u00a0on the 24th June Saturday. The workshop will invite participants to explore her interest in intelligent machines, and their potential to express emotions.<\/p>\n<p>As I am investigating the critical role of embarrassment in our everyday life for my PhD research, I would like to question whether emerging intelligent machines will need to learn this emotion for naturally blending in human social interactions in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will host two computer science academics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk\/people\/view\/54320\/dr-ildar-farkhatdinov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov <\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk\/people\/view\/3007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof Pat Healey <\/a>from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Mary University of London<\/a>, to discuss the future with &#8217;embarrassed robots&#8217; with their knowledge and perspectives on robotics and cognitive psychology. The second half of the workshop will experiment with materials, forms and functions, to explore how a robot might come to express embarrassment, without mimicking or alienating us.<\/p>\n<p>See more information from the Museum&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/designmuseum.org\/things-to-do\/talks-and-events\/do-robots-blush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/designmuseum.org\/things-to-do\/talks-and-events\/do-robots-blush<\/a>. Booking will be needed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am going to lead a design workshop, \u2018Do Robots Blush?\u2019 as one of this year\u2019s Designers in Residence events at the Design Museum&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}