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Digital Interaction and Constructivism Seminar

The IT University of Copenhagen, Monday 10.06.2002

I hosted a seminar on interaction and constructivism in relation to information technologies broadly considered. The topics was semantic, epistemological and ontological aspects on interaction with special focus on interaction with IT regarded as a substrate for various complex, dynamic and emergent phenomena. Four speakers gave talks on themes within their respective fields regarding interaction with IT, based on IT or involving IT:

• Mark H. Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor of Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge Lehigh University, director, Institute for Interactivist Studies and co-director, Complex Systems Research Group http://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/mhb0.html
• Wayne Christensen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Vienna, member of Complex Systems Research Group http://www.kli.ac.at/personal/christensen/homepage.html
• Tom Ziemke, Professor of Cognitive Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde, editor-in-chief of Connection Science http://www.ida.his.se/ida/~tom/
• Georgi Stojanov, Ph.D. Assistant professor, Computer Science Department, Sts Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Macedonia

Program:
13.00 - 13.10 Welcome by Mikkel Holm Sørensen, Ph.D. student, Organizer
13.10 - 13.55 Wayne Christensen: "Interactivism, the new integrative sciences, and digital culture".
13.55 - 14.40 Mark H. Bickhard: "Cognitive Representation and Action".
14.40 - 15.05 Coffee break
15.05 - 15.50 Georgi Stojanov: "Computer Interfaces: From Communication to Mind-Prosthesis Metaphor".
15.50 - 16.35 Tom Ziemke: "The Construction of Reality in the Robot".
16.35 - 17.00 General discussion
App. 17.00 Mikkel Holm Sørensen: Closing remarks