Date
Time
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Venue
Hyvrid: NWU Potchefstroom Campus, Building C1, Room 135 & Youtube Stream
Description
You are warmly invited to attend a symposium focusing on "Technology, Humanity, and the Ethical Compass: Mapping the Path of Capability Development." This event endeavors to outline a direction for the ethical, human-centered, and socially responsible advancement of capabilities. It aims to facilitate discussions among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across various domains to work together toward a more fair and compassionate technological future.
Topics
- AI as a mediator of human values: A dynamic sociotechnical systems perspective.
- Algorithmic Appreciation, aversion and algoactivism: Where we are now and where we are heading.
- Navigating knowledge frontiers: Digital storytelling for critical thinking and emotional learning.
- Tactile experience in merged reality for learning.
- Crossing wires: The ‘techtures’ that enable us.
- New approach in counseling and psychological service: Metaverse counseling.
- Technology-enabled decolonial practice: A state of translation.
Speakers
- Dr Lance Bunt - North-West University
- Prof. Hsiu-Ling (Shirley) Chen - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Prof. Sufen Chen - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Prof. Amandeep Dhir (DSc, PhD) - University of Agder, Norway
- Prof. Japie Greeff - North-West University
- Prof. Olya Kudina
- Prof. Sang Min Lee - Korea University.
Contact Details
For more information, kindly contact Lynn Booysen.