The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation

Final Programme

Thursday 4th December
From 12.30pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Christopher Macallister

2.15pm
Session 1: AI - Humans in the System
Chair: Chris Macallister

Brigitte Hoeltzener and Cédric Archaux
Human Expertise and his Role in Complex Systems

Albrecht Fritzsche
Effects of the Semantic Differences in a Virtual Environment on the Users Reasoning

3.30pm
Coffee

4.00pm
Session 2: AI and Humanity: Visions in Popular Culture
Chair: Mark Jackson

Blay Whitby
A.I. as a Failed Research Programme?

Achim Haettich
Who are the Others: Monstrous Machines vs. Natural Beasts? A Filmanalytic Study

5.15pm
Wine reception

Friday 5th December
9.30am
Session 3: Free Will and Emotion
Chair: Anatoli Nachev

Maria O'Connor and Mark Jackson
A.I. Language, Gender, Difference: Spurian Readings on the Intelligence of Artifice

Cveta Martinovska
Emotion as a Way of Extending User Communication with Interactive Technologies

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: Constructing Reality and Identity
Chair: Brigitte Hoeltzener

Alexander Riegler
Turing's Choice: Human and Artificial Volition

Sangeeta Fernandes
Mind Over Matter

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 5: AI: Learning and Knowledge
Chair: Maria O'Connor

Anatoli Nachev
Learning with Forgetting-An approach to Achieve Adaptive Neural Networks

Goran Trajkovski
The Impact of Stress on Imitation-Based Learning

Syed V. Ahamed
A Network Based Wisdom Machine (WM)

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 6: Round Table - Drawing the Themes Together

5.30pm
Sessions End

Saturday 6th December
10.00am
Session 7: Fiction, Science and Science Fiction: Visions of the Future
Chair: Albrecht Fritzsche

Lisa Nocks
Science Fiction-What is it Good For?: Practical Issues for Embodied AI as Articulated in Science Fiction

Mariana Meyer
Pinocchio & AI

Natalia L. Rudychev
Visions of the Future and the Role of AI

11.30am
Coffee

12.00pm
Development Meeting
a) e-mail discussion group
b) publication process
c) e-journal
d) next conference
e) any other items

Conference Closes