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Zaven Paré

Title and home institution: Artist and expert in robotics ; Researcher in “interaction design” at the Escola Superior de Design Industrial/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (ESDI/UERJ)
Category of Fellowship: Research fellowship
Residency length: February 3 to June 26, 2020 -Residency with the support of CD 13

Research project

Sonzai-Kan and Cognition (Behavior Monitoring Interpretation for Interaction Design) – project in collaboration with Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone – INT (AMU/CNRS)

Project summary

My unique background of the understanding of the mechanism of Sonzai-Kan (Presence Effect of the contemporary interrelationship between robots and humans) will be helpful to build upon and go beyond the insights gained from analysing the existing data. My long-term plan is to be able to give to these previous consistent experiments a new theoretical framework, and to establish the study of the Presence Effect (the minimum perceptual activity in the situated interaction, integrity of the reference posture, embodiment as a paradigm of identity, signs of connection, realignment operations, gestures resulting from stress, pacifying gestures and triggers and layering of these gestures) as a segment of cognitive studies within telecommunication science in the West. Also, by being actively engaged in new practical experiments, I hope to promote the application of the research results in connection with the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone.

Appels à candidature

Les résidences de recherche que propose l’Iméra, Institut d’études avancées (IEA) d’Aix Marseille Université, s’adressent aux chercheurs confirmés – académiques, scientifiques et/ou artistes. Ces résidences de recherche sont distribuées sur quatre programmes (« Arts & sciences : savoirs indisciplinés », « Explorations interdisciplinaires », « Méditerranée » et « Utopies nécessaires »).