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================================================================= Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine No.38 (December 15, 2010) ================================================================= We, Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, would like to let you know the following five news. 1) We exchanged memorandums with Association for Research on Disability Studies in South Korea last month. We will keep collaborating with them from now on. http://www.arsvi.com/a/20101123-e.htm 2) As we introduced in our e-mail magazine No.34, Otani's abstract of "'Good Manner of Dying' as a Normative Concept: 'Autocide,' 'Granny Dumping' and Discussions on Euthanasia/Death with Dignity in Japan" is now ready online. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6781.2010.01136.x/abstract In order to read its full text, either you or the institution you belong to needs to subscribe to the journal. 3) We have made an English-version page of Collection of Keywords of Science for Human Services. http://www.arsvi.com/b2000/0904ma-e.htm 4) Paul Dumouchel and Reiko Gotoh will host the international conference next January. Its detailed schedule is now ready. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/2010/20110108.htm 5) Our program members have conducted various kinds of global research activities. The following is the brief report written by Professor Yoko Matsubara. International Workshop: The Mechanization of Empathy in Health Care Yoko Matsubara The workshop was held on 17-18 September 2010 at the University of Bergamo in Italy. It was jointly organized by Paul Dumouchel and Yoko Matsubara from the Center of Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University with Luisa Damiano and Stefano Tomelleri from the University of Bergamo. We had the first workshop under the same theme in 2009 at Ritsumeikan University and focused on transformations produced by information technology and social robots in the relations between medical workers and patients in healthcare. In the second workshop in this past September we drew attention to more specific situations where people with disabilities or illness encounter medical technology, ICT and social robots. On the first day, two graduate students from the Center for Ars Vivendi made presentations. One of them was a student with visual impairment and he made presentations and exchanged opinions concerning patients' insights on relations between technology and human experiences. On the second day, researchers who develop robots as therapeutic device for children and elderly people reported their therapeutic practice showing videos. Their works made me reconsider the boundary between humans and machines as well as the meaning of communication between people. Researchers from the Giannino Bassetti Foundation who study roboethics also joined the workshop for two days. Close and in- depth discussions in the workshop encouraged me to have another meeting on this theme in the near future. http://www.arsvi.com/a/20100917-e.htm *Please click below for more detailed information about our program. http://www.arsvi.com/a/index.htm http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/re/k-rsc/ars_vivendi/english.html We are eager to promote collaborative research projects with disabled patients' advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, as well as domestic and international researchers. [Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine] For comments, subscription and cancellation of this e-mail magazine, please e-mail TAE01303@nifty.ne.jp For past issues of our e-mail magazine, please take a look at http://www.arsvi.com/a/eme.htm General Editor : Shin'ya Tateiwa Chief Editor : Minoru Kataoka Publication : Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University 56-1 Kitamachi, Tojiin, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan 603-8577 |