PhD School

We invite you to participate in the thematic conference Human Friendly Technology - The beauty of machines and their role for man in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The conference is devoted to sub-areas:

• Sub-area 9: Socio-cultural and methodological challenges of Industry 4.0 - coordinator: Prof. Małgorzata Dobrowolska, malgorzata.dobrowolska@polsl.pl
• Sub-area 10: Design and engineering (mechanical and plant engineering, architectural design, industrial design) - coordinator: Prof. Marek Wyleżoł, marek.wylezol@polsl.pl 

Link to the conference (using zoom platform)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81977469735?pwd=aWhBc2t1c3hMZFJTejdaUlVXZkpZZz09 
Meeting ID: 819 7746 9735
Passcode: 996612

Agenda of the conference:

15.00-15.15 welcome 

15.15-15.45 International guest speaker: Prof. Armin Grunwald, Towards an increasingly automated society - where does the "human factor" remain? Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (25 minutes + 5 minutes of comments)

15.45-16.45 Speech by Expert Practitioner: Marcin Bruszewski, MA, Tomasz Pilewicz, PhD, The beauty of machines and their role for humans in the 4th industrial revolution, Philips Polska Sp. z o.o. (45 minutes + 15 minutes questions, discussion, comments)

16.45 - 18.45 Speeches in the scientific session

I. Man - machine

16.45 - 17.00 Prof. Andrzej Kiepas "Should robots be social?" Institute for Research on Education and Communication, Silesian University of Technology

17.00-17.15 mgr Eryka Probierz, dr hab. Adam Gałuszka, prof. PŚ "How does anger and sadness sound? - emotion recognition by social robots based on conversation", Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Department of Automatic Control and Robotics

17.15-17.30 dr hab. Małgorzata Dobrowolska, prof. PŚ "Analysis of functioning of an industrial worker of the future - results of a comparative analysis of 27 countries", International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Silesian University of Technology

II. Beauty of machines

17.30-17.45 MA Katarzyna, Wojciech Sokołowscy "Design - harmony of function and form" SOKKA Gliwice

17.45-18.00 dr Dominika Głąb "Because engineering and design", Product Design Studio, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

III. Technology - Society - Management

18.00-18.15 Prof. Jan Kaźmierczak "Anthropotechnical systems: beautiful machines and beautiful machine users".

18.15-18.30 Prof. Dr. Jan Brzóska, Prof. Dr. Lilla Knop, Prof. PŚ, Dr. Sławomir Olko "Business models in Industry 4.0"  

18.30-18.45 dr hab. inż. Anna Michna, prof. PŚ "Barriers for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions in small and medium-sized enterprises"

18.45-19.00 dr hab. Aleksandra Kuzior, prof. PŚ "The problem of technological unemployment in view of the development of Industry 4.0"