[Image via] Webinar: Interacting with a Digital ‘Person’: what impact(s) and implication(s) for identity? :: June 20, 2011; 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm (GMT +2) :: Streamed live here. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the speakers and share their own experiences.

Speakers: Yasmine Abbas (Neo-nomad research), Georges Chapouthier (Research director at the CNRS in Paris, Centre Emotion -CNRS UMR 7593- Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France), Mark Coeckelbergh (Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands) and Jasper Michiel van Hemert (Senior User Experience Researcher, TomTom, The Netherlands).

*Note: a Digital Person is a non-human which can interact orally with humans such as computers, robots, GPS navigation systems, etc.

Organised by Fred Dervin (University of Turku, Finland) and Béatrice Fracchiolla (Paris 8, France; MSH Paris Nord), within the framework of the project “Anthropology of interactions with “digital individuals”: the example of GPS Navigators” (2010-2012), which is funded by the research centre Maison Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord (Paris, France).

Questions should be directed both to Fred Dervin: freder [at] utu [dot] fi and Béatrice Fracchiolla: bearfrac [at] yahoo [dot] com.