How to ge t to the Central Institute of Mental About the scientific network Health Mannheim (day 1) :

By car: Follow A5 and A67 til B38 in Mannheim, The scientific network „Users’ Body Experience change to A6 and leave at 26 - Viernheimer Kreuz. and Human - Machine Interfaces in (Assistive) Users’ Body Experience and Follow B38 til square J 4 (Central Institute) . Robotics” deals with the body experience of subjects using assistive robots or other body/user - Human - Machine Interfaces By tram: Exit the Mannheim central station in proximal robotic devices. The objectives of the the direction of the city. Taxi and tram are leaving scientific network are to explore the technical in (Assistive) Robotics directly in front of the central station. Taking a taxi potential of improving experience by appropriate to the Central Institute cost approx. 1 2 Euro. It is human - robot interfaces and robot designs. cheaper to travel by tram: Take the tram no. 1 in Therefore, the participants jointly analyze and Sixth Meeting of the Scientific Network direction ‘Schönau’ or no. 5 in direction discuss mea sures to assess experience and Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim ‘Mannheim - Weinheim’ and exit at th th consider it in novel design methods. This includes December 6 – 7 2017 ‘Abendakademie’ . From here you will have to the identification of promising perceptual channels urobody.wordpress.com walk 3 minutes turning right against the as well as the preparation of foot - and hand - robots direction of tram travel. The meeting will take for the experimental investigation of rubber limb place in square J4 (Forschungs - und illusions and interf ace designs. Further, serious Verwaltungsgebäude). Go to t he third floor , games are examined as a possibility to assess turn right and follow the hallway until performance and stimulus - signal mapping. you reach the stairs. From here, go to the Currently, no organizational structure covers the fourth floor. range of aspects considered in this scientific network. Besides closing this gap, the par ticipants How to get to square L13 , 15 - 17 (day 2): plan a joint publication based on sharing The location of day 2 (scientific program) will take knowledge within the scientific network. A mid - place in square L13, a walk of 3 minutes of the term goal of the network is to pave the way for STAYTION hotel directly in front of the main further joint research and explore topics and station. While the hotel is located right from main issues for joint follow - up projects. station, L13 be longs to Mannheim University and

is located left from main station (see the map on Objectives of the meeting the last page) .

. Stimulation of exchange and discussion . Keynotes and guest talks This meeting is supported by . Integration of (post) doctoral researchers . Kick - off of the network activities Contact: Dr. sc. hum. Robin Bekrater - Bodmann Phone: +49 621 1703 - 6322 r.bekrater - bodmann@zi - mannheim.de Central Institute for Mental Health Dept. of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

th th Thursday , December 6 (Central Institute of Friday, December 7 ( Mannheim University, Further Information Mental Health, Forschungs - und Clinical and Biological Psychology and * 1 meal and 1 non - alcoholic drink are included for network Verwaltungsgebäude, square J4 ) Psychotherapy , square L13 , 15 - 17 ) participants , i.e., the PostDoc researchers that are funded within the DFG project , and key note speakers . - Organizational matters - - Scientific programme -

Arrival until 14:45 How to get to the workshop location s : 9:00 Robin Bekrater - Bodmann Day 1: Organizational matters Welcome , p resentation of the Central Central Institute of Mental Health (J4) 14:45 Welcome to URoBody Institute

15:00 Internal discussions (incl. short 9 : 3 0 – 10 : 3 0 Keynote : Matt Longo breaks): cooperations, joint Distorted b ody r epresentations in h ealthy publications, follow - up projects (only a dults network participants)

11 : 45 – 1 3 : 00 Break 1 8 : 15 Christmas Market Mannheim

10 : 4 5 – 11 : 4 5 Keynote: Herta Flor

19 : 4 5 Dinner* Use - and injury - induced brain plasticity

after limb amputation

11 : 45 – 1 3 : 00 Lunch * and get - together Day 2: Scientific p rogramme green dot = workshop location; red dot: STAYTION hotel

1 3 : 00 – 1 4 : 00 Keynote : Wolf Schweitzer Actually using a prosthetic arm – the rubber hand illusion in its wider contex t

14: 00 – 1 4 : 45 Final discussion and departure