This open access book presents a vision of a future, where avatars play an integral role in shaping the fabric of our interconnected society. The book introduces the authors’ ongoing efforts to advance avatar technologies and is structured into nine chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the potentially revolutionary impact of cybernetic avatars (CAs) as a new medium of communication, liberating individuals from physical barriers and creating more flexible work environments. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 present developments in CAs with advanced autonomous functionality. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the creation of a CA platform that connects multiple operators and CAs. Chapter 7 explores the physiological and neuroscientific effects of avatars and other media on operators and users. Finally, Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the societal implementation of CAs. This book is stemmed from one of the Moonshot R&D projects funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
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This open access book presents a vision of a future, where avatars play an integral role in shaping the fabric of our interconnected society. Finally, Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the societal implementation of CAs.This book is stemmed from one of the Moonshot R&D projects funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
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1. Introduction Cybernetic Avatar.- 2. Development of Cybernetic Avatars with Human like Presence and Lifelikeness.- 3. Spoken Dialogue Technology for Semi autonomous Cybernetic Avatars.- 4. Human level knowledge and concept acquisition.- 5. Cooperative control of multiple CAs.
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This open access book presents a vision of a future, where avatars play an integral role in shaping the fabric of our interconnected society. The book introduces the authors’ ongoing efforts to advance avatar technologies and is structured into nine chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the potentially revolutionary impact of cybernetic avatars (CAs) as a new medium of communication, liberating individuals from physical barriers and creating more flexible work environments. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 present developments in CAs with advanced autonomous functionality. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the creation of a CA platform that connects multiple operators and CAs. Chapter 7 explores the physiological and neuroscientific effects of avatars and other media on operators and users. Finally, Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the societal implementation of CAs. This book is stemmed from one of the Moonshot R&D projects funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
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Presents cutting-edge technologies for the development of Cybernetic Avatars Advances the Avatar-Symbiotic Society to liberate individuals from the limitations of physical and temporal constraints Inspires readers to contemplate the future technologies that will be realized in 2050 This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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ISBN
9789819737512
Publisert
2024-11-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer Nature
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Hiroshi Ishiguro received his Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan, in 1991. He is a distinguished professor at Osaka University, the visiting director of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR), and a project manager there, and CEO at AVITA, Inc. His research interests are interactive robotics and avatars.   In 2011, he won the Osaka Cultural Award. In 2015, he received the Prize for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He was also awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in Dubai in 2015, the Tateisi Award in 2020, and an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University, Denmark in 2021.

Fuki Ueno is a researcher in the Graduate School of Informatics at Nagoya University, Japan. She is working on the Moonshot R&D project managed by Hiroshi Ishiguro.

Eiki Tachibana is a project assistant professor in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan. He is working on the Moonshot R&D project managed by Hiroshi Ishiguro.