** ONLINE WEBINAR Monday 20th June 2011 12.15pm-1.45pm French time (GMT +2) Check the time in Paris (France) at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=195 Interacting with a Digital ‘Person’*: what impact(s) and implication(s) for identity? *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). Speakers: Yasmine Abbas (RURL Program Director, Professorial Research Fellow, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi), 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) Jasper Michiel van Hemert (Senior User Experience Researcher, TomTom, The Netherlands). The webinar will be broadcasted live at: https://webmeeting.utu.fi/r60123567 The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the speakers and share their own experiences. Questions should be directed both to Fred Dervin (freder@utu.fi) and Béatrice Fracchiolla (bearfrac@yahoo.com)