Team Workshops on the Current Debate of Social Robotics
In August 2025, EMOROB organised two internal workshops aimed at sharing research progress and promoting interdisciplinary discussion within the team.
In her talk titled "The Automata and the Geek. Narratives of autism between the body politic and the subjectivity of cognitive science", Ilaria Fornacciari presented the EMOROB project and research on the narratives of autism on the grounds of Faculty of Science (Masaryk University, Brno).
Students and members of the faculty attended the talk and futher discussed how the methaphors we use influence current scientific research. The abstract of the talk is available here.
In August 2025, EMOROB organised two internal workshops aimed at sharing research progress and promoting interdisciplinary discussion within the team.
How do metaphors and analogies influence research of autism therapy? Ilaria Fornacciari explored this relationship and more in her talk "Mirroring Mechanical Metaphors: Materials for an Archaeology of “Emotional Competence”, from Asperger to Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy (RAAT)".