OIST-KEIO Showcase Talk Series 6 & YIL Pre-EVENT

OIST-KEIO Showcase Talk Series 6 & YIL Pre-EVENT

Ahead of the Spring 2025 opening of the YIL (Yagami Innovation Laboratory), which aims to bring fresh innovation to education and research, OIST and KEIO will host an exchange event! Dr. Tom Froese, Assistant Professor leading the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, will explore how the human mind is shaped by interactions with "agents" such as avatars and robots, and the environment. He will share insights from his research and discuss future directions.

OIST members are welcome to join ONLINE.

Zoom Link

ZOOM

Meeting ID :  840 3619 7641
Passcode :  093226

Keynote Speech

Roundtable Talk

• Dr. Yuki Imoto
  Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Keio

• Dr. Charu Datt
  Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio

• Dr. Eiko Matsuda
  Senior Assistant Professor, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio

• Dr. Tom Froese
  Assistant Professor, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, OIST

Program Outline

• 15:00-15:10 Opening Remarks and Introduction to YIL - Dr. Toshiharu Saiki
• 15:10-15:20 Introduction - Hiroyo Clemente　
• 15:20-15:40 Keynote Speech – Dr. Tom Froese: "Human-Computer Augmentation: Challenges and Opportunities" 
• 15:50-16:30 Roundtable Discussion – Featuring three members from Keio University’s Faculty of Science and Technology