I would like to invite you to present a paper/organize a session in my stream Models of Embodied Cognition at the 25th European Conference on Operational Research, which will take place at Vilnius, Lithuania from 8-11 July 2012.

Aims and scope

Niklas Luhmann defined trust as the reduction of social complexity. It facilitates interaction among humans and may also improve human-machine interfaces. Ways of modelling trust are the main topic of this stream. It will investigate the merits and dangers involved in the development and application of models which describe and mimick embodied cognition. Particular emphasis will be given to methods of forming new systemic wholes by means of incorporating parts of environmental spatio-temporal structures. The aim is to be a mutual cross-semination between individuals who attempt to learn from embodied cognition in humans in order to improve design in AI and those who define limits and identify shortcomings of artificial embodied agents in order to model human cognition.

Keywords: Embodied cognition, observer-participant perspectives, extended observers, extended minds, emergent agents, emotional agents, attention, anticipation and delayed responses, mirrored self-recognition, neosentient machines, robotic models, robot-human interaction, the hard problem of consciousness.

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I look forward to your reply.

Best wishes,

Susie Vrobel