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Program

October 1st

9:00 - 10:30 AP-CAP Registration Open
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: Hiroshi Ishiguro
Title: "Developing androids and understanding humans"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Privacy and Technology
Google Street View and Privacy. Some thoughts from a philosophical and engineering point of view.
Oliver Siemoneit, Christoph Hubig, Martin Kada, Michael Peter, and Dieter Fritsch
Ethical usability of IT systems: How to consider relevant factors and how to find design solutions
Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Mikael Laaksoharju
RFID in National ID Cards: A Privacy Concern
Mohammad Alamgir Hossain
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Roboethics I
Which Consequentialism? Machine Ethics and Moral Divergence
Carl Shulman, Nick Tarleton, and Henrik Jonsson
Introducing Roboethics to Japanese Society: A Proposal
Kimura Takeshi
Implications of Autonomous Robots for Ethical Theory
Soraj Hongladarom
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00 Cognitive Philosophy
Towards a Computational Theory of Perception
Rafael Grompone von Gioi
Is He Ally or Enemy - Difficulties of Cooperation
Akira Ito, Kei Kato, and Kazunori Terada
Causal Reasoning as a Basis for Rational Action
Taku Tanikawa
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet (a quick walk from the conference hall)
Address: Ikenohata 1-4-33, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8707
Phone: 03-5814-1515
 

October 2nd

9:00 - 10:30 Intercultural Information Ethics | Transhumanism
Intercultural issues toward integration of critical thinking and science communication
Yuko Murakami and Tetsuji Iseda
What Should We Share? Understanding the Aim of Intercultural Information Ethics
Pak Hang Wong
Interfaces for Personal Genomics & BioLogging between serendipity and “fatum”, cosmopolitics and biopolitics
Denisa Kera
Machine Ethics and Superintelligence
Carl Shulman, Henrik Jonsson, and Nick Tarleton
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote: Shinsuke Shimojo
Title: "TMS applied to the visual cortex - approaching the Brain-Mind Problem"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Social Construction of the Self | Hybrid Culture
Face in the mirror : Facial makeup and the social construction of the self
Ayako Onzo, Keishi Saruwatari, Yasuhiko Tanaka, Shuichi Okazaki, Atsushi Sasaki, and Ken Mogi
Generation of Body Images in an Active/Passive Perception Model
Yuki Sato, Takashi Ikegami, and Hiroyuki Iizuka
Virtual Identity in the World of Simulation
Heejung Kwon, David Hall, and Jinwoo Kim
SequenceBook: a new interaction with book
Hiroki Yamada
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Devices that Alter Perception
Mobiquitous Devices and Perception of Reality. A Philosophical Enquiry into Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Devices that Alter Perception Using the Example of TANIA –- A Tactile Acoustical Indoor and Outdoor Navigation and Information Assistant
Oliver Siemoneit, Christoph Hubig, Bernhard Schmitz, and Thomas Ertl
Interactive Training for Sensory Substitution Devices
Zach Reynolds and Brian Glenney
Hearing Color: Radical Pluralistic Realism and SSDs
Zach Capalbo and Brian Glenney
The idea of synesthesis in the light of the New Media Art
Katarzyna Otulakowska
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00 Roboethics II
Why Turing Shouldn’t Have to Guess
Keith Miller, Frances Grodzinsky, and Marty Wolf
On the Design of Moral and Amoral Agents
Gene Rohrbaugh
Closing Address

∀ - The Proceedings of AP-CAP 2009 is now freely available for download.

∃ - Members of the press: please see the conference Press Release.