Luisa Damiano
Luisa Damiano (PhD) is full professor of logic and philosophy of science at the IULM University, where she directs the PhD School for Communication Studies and co-directs the research center CRiSiCo. She previously served as associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of Messina (2015-2021) and at IULM University (2021-2023). Her main research areas are: Epistemology of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences; Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial. Since 2007, she has been working on these topics with scientific teams (Origins of Life Group, University of Rome Three, Rome, Italy, SynthCells EU Project; Adaptive Systems Research Group, Developmental Robotics Division, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Felix Growing EU Project and Aliz-é EU Project; Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, Empathy and Frontier Sciences JSPS Project and Artificial Empathy JSPS Project; currently: University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, and JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, SB-AI Project; UQAM, Montreal, Canada, Artificial Empathy Project). Since 2011, she coordinates the Research Group on the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA).Among her publications there are many articles, the books Unità in dialogo (Bruno Mondadori, 2009) and Living with robots (with P. Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017, originally published in French by Seuil, 2016, in Korean by HEEDAM, 2019, and in Italian by Raffaello Cortina, 2019; in publication in Chinese by Peking University Press) and several co-edited journal special issues (e.g., Artificial Empathy, International Journal of Social Robotics, with P. Dumouchel and H. Lehmann, 2014; What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence (and vice versa)?, BioSystems, with Y. Kuruma and P. Stano, 2016; Synthetic Biology and Artificial Intelligence: Towards Cross-fertilization, Complex Systems, with Y. Kuruma and P. Stano, 2018; Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics,International Journal of Social Robotics, with F. Bianchini, E. Datteri and P. Graziani, 2023; Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other, BioSystems, with P. Stano, O. Witkowski, T. Ikegami, C. Nehaniv, 2023; Biology in AI. New frontiers in hardware, software and wetware modeling of cognition, Artificial Life, with P. Stano, 2023).
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Ce livre dessine les traits d’une transformation technique, sociale et culturelle déjà en cours de réalisation, une relation de coé- volution qui n’a jamais eu de précédent dans l’histoire de l’hu- manité. Cette relation avec des créatures artificielles dotées de compétences sociales et capables de remplir des rôles sociaux va conduire l’humanité à une bifurcation où des formes neuves de socialité seront susceptibles de surgir.
Papers by Luisa Damiano
Ce livre dessine les traits d’une transformation technique, sociale et culturelle déjà en cours de réalisation, une relation de coé- volution qui n’a jamais eu de précédent dans l’histoire de l’hu- manité. Cette relation avec des créatures artificielles dotées de compétences sociales et capables de remplir des rôles sociaux va conduire l’humanité à une bifurcation où des formes neuves de socialité seront susceptibles de surgir.
Context and research questions
In the last decade robotic applications have made their way into everyday life. Humans until now are used to interact with other humans, objects and pets in their homes. The intent of integrating robotic platforms into domestic environments, and, to create mixed human-robot ecologies forces us to focus and build on the ways we interact with other humans, our pets and technology.
- What are the differences and similarities between human-human and human-animal behavior coordination?
- What are the underlying mechanisms for behavior coordination?
- Which aspects of behavior coordination influence human social perception?
- How can aspects of natural behavior coordination be productively used to facilitate naturalistic Human-Robot Interaction?
This special issue wants to initiate a bi-directional transmission of knowledge between the sciences of the “natural” and the domain of the “artificial” involved in the traditional and in the synthetic study of behavior coordination. cognitive sciences, developmental psychology, developmental anthropology, sociology, developmental robotics, primatology, the sciences and the epistemology of self-organization, the sciences and the epistemology of complex systems, social robotics, Human-Robot Interaction. We also encourage research work drawing on studies related to gerontology, nursing, education, and related domains. We are specifically interested in interdisciplinary work that focuses on dyadic behavior as the basic systemic unit of coordinated behavior, and on different key mechanisms for effective coordination that are currently under exploration, such as joint attention, action observation, task-sharing, action coordination, perception of agency, motor synchronization. The special issue would like to gather research works directed to:
(a) deepen the scientific understanding of the natural mechanisms underlying behavioral coordination through their robotic modeling;
(b) facilitate and enhance human-robot cooperation on the basis of the implementation of these mechanisms in human-robot interaction.
To this end, we are looking in particular for papers focusing on:
- Original investigations on behavior coordination between human-human and human-animal interaction and their implications for HRI;
- Original investigations on behavior coordination between animals and their implications for social technology development;
- New paradigms of behaviour coordination and their implications for the different fields involved;
- Original applications of mechanisms of behavior coordination in HRI;
- Simulations and models of human behaviour and behavior coordination;
- Original investigations on representations for behavior coordination in humans/animals/ robots (e.g. related work on Theory of Mind);
- Theoretical and review papers on behaviour coordination in humans/animals/robots