TY - CHAP
T1 - Engineering the Arts
AU - Herath, Damith
AU - Kroos, Christian
N1 - Funding Information:
In 2006, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia announced three jointly funded special initiative projects collectively called the “the Thinking Systems” initiative. On the opening press release,1 the title ostensibly announced “$10 million to develop ‘thinking’ robots”. It went on to read:
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This book is a result of chance encounters, random discussions and a colluding collaboration between an engineer, a scientist and an artist. From the onset, the interdisciplinary nature has set us on a colliding course of ideas, expectations and interests. While interdisciplinary research is celebrated en masse by funding agencies, government bodies and the academia, researchers who embrace interdisciplinarity live a distinctly strenuous life with little recognition for their efforts that appear to fall into the chasm between the established norms and practices of the constituent disciplines. Here, we anecdotally backtrack our journey through the years, homage to the individuals who assume flexible identities, seeking out adventures beyond the confinements of their chosen field.
AB - This book is a result of chance encounters, random discussions and a colluding collaboration between an engineer, a scientist and an artist. From the onset, the interdisciplinary nature has set us on a colliding course of ideas, expectations and interests. While interdisciplinary research is celebrated en masse by funding agencies, government bodies and the academia, researchers who embrace interdisciplinarity live a distinctly strenuous life with little recognition for their efforts that appear to fall into the chasm between the established norms and practices of the constituent disciplines. Here, we anecdotally backtrack our journey through the years, homage to the individuals who assume flexible identities, seeking out adventures beyond the confinements of their chosen field.
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
KW - interdisciplinary research
KW - Uncanny valley
KW - Public visibility
KW - Human robot interaction
KW - Robotic research
KW - Excellence award
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051751825&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/engineering-arts
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789811003196
T3 - Cognitive Science and Technology
SP - 3
EP - 17
BT - Cognitive Science and Technology
A2 - Herath, Damith
A2 - Kroos, Christian
A2 - null, Stelarc
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -