An Overview of Social-Technical Research Issues in Social Robots

Speaker: Prof. Patrick HUNG
         Graduate Program Director - Computer Science Programs
         Director - International Programs
         Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT)
         Ontario Tech University

Title:  "An Overview of Social-Technical Research Issues in Social Robots"

Date:   Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Time:   4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:  Lecture Theater F (near lift 25/26), HKUST


Abstract:

The concept of robots, or other autonomous constructions, can be found in
many different cultures dating back to ancient times. A social robot is
the Internet of Things (IoT), consisting of a physical robot component
that connects to Cloud services to improve the ease and productivity of
activities through networking, multi-media, and sensory technologies. Many
studies found that anthropomorphic designs of what robots are, what they
can do, and how they should be understood resulted in greater user
engagement within the history of Western countries. Humanoid robots
usually behave like natural social interaction partners for human users,
with features such as speech, gestures, and eye-gaze, referring to the
users' data and social background. However, cultural differences may
influence human-robot interaction with different social norms and cultural
traits. This talk will overview social-technical research works in our
Human Machine Lab at Ontario Tech University and the cooperation of Data
Glove with Shizuoka University.


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Biography:

Patrick C. K. Hung is a Professor, Graduate Program Director of Computer
Science and Director of International Programs at the Faculty of Business
and Information Technology at Ontario Tech University, Canada. He is an
Honorable Guest Professor at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. He is
also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Abertay University, Scotland, and
a Visiting Researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Hung
worked with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle on aviation
services-related research with two U.S. patents on the mobile network
dynamic workflow system. Before that, he was a Research Scientist with the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia.
He also worked in the software industry in Toronto. He is a founding
member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing and IEEE
Transactions on Services Computing. In addition, he is a coordinating
editor of the Information Systems Frontiers. He has a Ph.D. and Master in
Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
a Master in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Canada,
and a Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales,
Australia.