Colin SCHMIDT

École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers | ENSAM

The presence of overwhelming amounts of information in our big-data era society is growing. Globalisation is increasingly giving these solicitations (regarding information) a more social aspect causing behavioural changes. While restricting my focus on this aspect of the Bentley et al article, I address related medical questions and pin-point the c...

The sense of "Presence" (evolving from "telepresence") has always been associated with virtual reality research and is still an exceptionally mystifying constituent. Now the study of presence clearly spans over various disciplines associated with cognition. This paper attempts to put forth a concept that argues that it's an experience of an "Evoked...

Empirical evidence of self-deception's propositional duality is not sought; philosophically relevant links between propositions proper and mind are explored instead. Speech in unison ably indicates the social grounding of such attitudinal structures. An extra-theoretical eye – with regard to cognitivism – is cast on a case of “illusory communi...

In the present enterprise we take a look at the meaning of Autonomy, how the word has been employed and some of the consequences of its use in the sciences of the artificial. Could and should robots really be autonomous entities? Over and beyond this, we use concepts from the philosophy of mind to spur on enquiry into the very essence of human auto...

Since simulating human communication is dependant on the evolution of this very activity, all efforts in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) are intuitively bound to be too late. Little sign of this fact is reflected in the literature. In stride with the foresight of French philosopher Francis Jacques, the present work explores the system...

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In this paper, we argue in favour of using an immersive Virtual Environment (VE) in order to improve human capabilities. We develop this idea in order to advance the potential of VEs in enhancing humans. Training with VEs has proven in some cases to be more efficient than training in real world situations in terms of the reduction of time consumpti...

The logical propositions in the literature pertaining to language-use are highly related to the structure of mind. Between individuals and communities, the associations that minds can entertain depend upon these structures. Can Internet as "information prosthetics" be 'funnelled' into the mind? In the present article, the focus is on the general po...

Video games are high emotional vectors. They play with the emotions of players by eliciting and increasing them. The importance of the induction of basic emotions has been a long forestay and is favoured by video game publishers, as they are quite easily mobilized. Video game publishers look to produce more complex social emotions like empathy, and...

CV 18pp (full cv with administrative duties and technical reports included)

Le robot comme interactant est souvent un agent cognitif et biologiquement inspiré par l'homme, conçu pour communiquer. Au-delà des questions classiques concernant la plausibilité des artefacts intelligents, des interrogations subsistent au sujet de la pertinence de ces nouvelles implémentations computationnelles et robotiques dans notre société ;...

Le robot comme interactant est souvent un agent cognitif et biologiquement inspiré par l’homme, conçu pour communiquer. Au-delà des questions classiques concernant la plausibilité des artefacts intelligents, des interrogations subsistent au sujet de la pertinence de ces nouvelles implémentations computationnelles et robotiques dans notre société ;...

The presence of overwhelming amounts of information in our big-data era society is growing. Globalisation is increasingly giving these solicitations (regarding information) a more social aspect causing behavioural changes. While restricting my focus on this aspect of the Bentley et al article, I address related medical questions and pin-point the c...

Conference on "Virtual, Augmented and Robotic Humans (VARH)", LavalVirtual 9-11 April 2014 (submission to 13 Dec.) FRANCE

Art and technology always evolved simultaneously, often inspiring and complimenting each other. This can be observed at every point in the history of media technologies. We suggest that the evolution of media has always been looking forward to an ultimate form of representation of reality that one could experience -a perfect Simulated Reality. Over...

Progress and Uncertainties of Human-Robot Relationships, Symposium n° 6. Overview from LAVAL VIRTUAL 2013

The intention of this article is to establish a veritable philosophical and exploratory statement about Science. Without becoming technical or exclusive, the author addresses domains such as Robotics and Augmented Humans and their roles in a world of meaning, and to some extent, spirituality. Human activities are bound by their cognition, their mor...

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A number of existing innovation paradigms and design approaches such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003), User Experience (Hassenzahl & Tractinsky, 2006) and User-Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005), as well as User-Centred Open Innovation Ecosystems (Pallot, 2009a) are promoting distributed collaboration among organisations and user communities. H...

Many have bowed before the recently acquired powers of ‘new technologies’. However, in the shift from tekhnē to tekhnologia, it seems we have lost human values. These values are communicative in nature as technological progress has placed barriers like distance, web pages and ‘miscellaneous extras’ between individuals. Certain values, like the inte...

It's sometimes said, and even more often assumed, that life is necessary for mind. If so, and if A-Life promises to throw light on the nature of life as such, then A-Life is in principle highly relevant to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. ...

In speaking of ideas at the intersection of transhumanism, advanced robotics, and related fields, I wish to provide a few theoretical elements necessary for addressing questions like “Should we redesign humans?” While some find such a question somewhat out of place, others seriously think of alternatives to their present ways of life, even if they...

Many endeavours in Artificial Intelligence work towards recreating the dialogical capabilities of humans in machines, robots, ”creatures”, in short information processing systems. This original goal in AI has been left to the wayside by many in order to produce Artificial Life entities in a futuristic vision of ’life-as-it-could-be’; scientists tha...

The raison d’eˆtre of this article is that many a spry-eyed analyst of the works in intelligent computing and robotics fail to see the essential concerning applications development, that of expressing their ultimate goal. Alternatively, they fail to state it suitably for the lesser-informed public eye. The author does not claim to be able to remedy...

In this article, I establish a theory of knowledge approach for evaluating the use of computers for educational purposes at the university. In so doing, I trace part of the history of the “enabling factor” of Artificial Intelligence in this sector, an important element that has been integrated into everyday learning environments. The result of my r...

Artificial intelligence researchers interested in knowledge and in designing and implementing digitized artifacts for representing or sharing knowledge play a crucial role in the development of a knowledge-based economy. They help answer the question ...

In this article, we present research in the making of a collective work environment within the framework of a distance education course. We base our theoretical and methodological standpoints on examples of dialogical discourses recorded within the framework of this CSCL system called Symba. In fact, the results of previous research lead us to reth...

Attaching the robotic body to the artificial brain (the computer) is a poor way of going about constructing autonomous mentality. It represents nothing more than an extension of the brain and succumbs to using experience as a confirmation of the scientist's belief that he may speak in artificial terms of mind of mentality. This naturally leads to p...

Intellectual affinities are intertwined with community feeling. In an Era of E-everything, communities as we once knew them have been split up and remade in a virtual manner. With their uses of the Internet for promoting Science, institutions of higher education have pushed reflections about multi-person activities out of the framework of the Infor...

Discussion about the application of scientific knowledge in robotics in order to build people helpers is widespread. The issue herein addressed is philosophically poignant, that of robots that are “people”. It is currently popular to speak about robots and the image of Man. Behind this lurks the dialogical mind and the questions about the significa...

The original target of the artificial sciences is maintained but heavily questioned in this article. The author feels there is no use sweeping strong artificial intelligence under the carpet as it remains very present in the minds of the specialists despite an apparent swing to realism. Strong AI, supported by newer fields such as evolutionary comp...

The year 2001 was a "fast year" for research in Robotics. In that year, the author of an article in Minds and Machines asks two highly pertinent questions for robotics: 1) If a robot is able to participate in simple language games as adequately as a child, should we concede that the robot handles true meaning? and 2) How would we go about developin...

In what follows, we look into the intellectual history of Distance Education. We study the methodological, political and epistemological aspects of the shift of paradigms in the scientific thought used to construct distance learning objects. A global (not meaning exhaustive) coverage of the various ways in which instructional communication has been...

In what follows, we look into the intellectual history of Distance Education. We study the methodological, political and epistemological aspects of the shift of paradigms in the scientific thought used to construct distance learning objects. A global (not meaning exhaustive) coverage of the various ways in which instructional communication has been...

Discussion about the application of scientific knowledge in robotics in order to build people helpers is widespread. The issue herein addressed is philosophically poignant, that of robots that are 'people'. It is currently popular to speak about robots and the image of Man. Behind this lurks the dialogical mind and the questions on its artificial e...

Les grands maîtres de la Science et de la Philosophie dévoilent plusieurs facettes de leurs problématiques et la communauté intellectuelle développe multiples angles de vue sur un même discours. Cette recherche est centrée sur la présentation de textes et amorce aussi une réflexion cognitiviste sur la représentation textuelle d'une pensée célèbre....

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the field of human–computer interaction (HCI) that provides examples concerning the pivotal point of this ever-changing relationship. Matching up technology with people (and vice versa) seems to take on an ethical dimension as the race to harness the power of the information explosion picks up speed. In the...

Erroneously attributing propositional attitudes (desires, beliefs...) to computational artefacts has become internationally commonplace in the public arena, especially amongst the new generation of non-initiated users. Technology for rendering machines “user-friendly” is often inspired by interpersonal human communication. This calls forth designer...

In the present enterprise we take a look at the meaning of Autonomy, how the word has been employed and some of the consequences of its use in the sciences of the artificial. Could and should robots really be autonomous entities? Over and beyond this, we use concepts from the philosophy of mind to spur on enquiry into the very essence of human auto...

The year 2001 was a "fast year" for research in Natural Computation and Robotics. In that year, the author of an article in Minds & Machines asks two highly pertinent questions for robotics: 1) If a robot is able to participate in simple language games as adequately as a child, should we concede true meaning and intelligence to it? and 2) How would...

Attaching the robotic body to the artificial brain (the computer) is a poor way of going about constructing autonomous mentality. It represents nothing more than an extension of the brain and succumbs to using experience as a confirmation of the scientist's belief that he may speak in artificial terms of mind of mentality. This naturally leads to p...

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris III, 2000.