Science and Technology Studies propose that ideas about good practice reconfigure along with introduction of new technology. To understand more, the NOVA research project ‘Configuring Care with Robots’ (Co-Bot) explores what assistive robotics and algorithms do to ideas of good care.

The project pursues three objectives: (1) to describe the state of the art of social research on care robots designed to provide, manage, and monitor care. (2) to analyze real-time relations between care robots and various groups of stakeholders including relatives and care providers. (3) to explore the broader impact of care robots and AI on ideas about good care for the elderly and for other vulnerable people. Among other things’, Co-Bot maps how care receivers, carers and relatives enact shifting care regimes and the footwork they do to get the care they aim for when provided with care robots and how their aims reconfigure while they do so.

Dr. James Wright participates in this workshop as a keynote speaker. He works in UNESCO regarding generative AI. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Hong Kong in 2018. His research focuses on the implementation of care robots for old people in Japan. His PhD formed the basis of the book The Emergent Techno Welfare State: Japan, Robots, and Care (2021). In 2023 he published Robots won’t save Japan, where he discusses the care crisis and follows three robots in practice (Hug, Paro, and Pepper) in Japan.

Programme:

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13.00 - 13.35

Keynote speak, James Wright: “Robots and digital care technologies including applications of generative AI considering UNESCO’s work”.

13.35 – 13.50

Discussion

13.50- 14.05

Break

14.05-14.25

Maja Hojer Bruun & Michal Frumer, Aarhus University and Region Midtjylland:  ”AI in healthcare: The case of sepsis algorithms”

14.25-14.45

Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University: Can robots be ’sapient’? Report from the project RoboSapiens.

14.45 – 15.00

Break

15.00-15.20

Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN): “Assemblages of autonomy and assemblages of dependency – reconfiguring care with robots”

15.30-16.00

Discussion and ending.

Questions?

Please contact Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen

E: ncmn@dpu.dk
T: 30 89 46 89