On March 22nd, the BEHAVE-team held a joint workshop together with the CoreSAEP-team. The CoreSAEP-research program is chaired by Birna van Riemsdijk (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science @ TU Delft), and sponsored by a so-called Vidi-grant from NWO. It aims to develop a new computational reasoning framework for Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners that support people in their daily lives. The PI and three researchers currently active in that program pitched their research, and so did the core-researchers and PI of BEHAVE. The workshop was most useful and inspirational, as it turned out that the two programs have enough overlap to ensure a meaningful discussion, yet enough difference in perspectives and backgrounds to ensure a mutual learning experience. For example, the experience in the BEHAVE-program with extracting moral decision rules and preferences from observed behaviours is likely to be of use for the design of socially adaptive technologies in CoreSAEP. Vice versa, the multi-agent perspective developed in that program, is likely to be very relevant for modules 3 and 4 of the BEHAVE-program. Several plans for future collaboration were discussed – to be continued!
March 2018: Joint workshop with CoreSAEP
