HRI 2023: "Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities" - CONCATENATE - Workshop

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Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year and all the best to you and your families!

We would like to invite you to participate and contribute to our workshop on “Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities (CONCATENATE)”, which will take place at HRI 2023 in Stockholm on March 13 2023. The format of the workshop will be hybrid. More details about the workshop can be found on our website:

https://sites.google.com/view/concatenate-hri/home

 

Topics of Interest to the workshop include:

- Theories and methods of personalisation;

- Physical, cognitive and social adaptation;

- Modelling and parameterising interactions;

- Metrics for evaluating personalised HRI;

- Transparency and XAI in HRI;

- Acceptance and Trust in personalised HRI;

- Socio-cultural aspects of personalised HRI;

- Robot law and ethics on personalisation;

- Inclusion and diversity in personalised HRI;

- User psychology in personalised HRI;

 

Submission Instructions:

We invite authors to submit a 2-page abstract or full papers (up to 6 pages, including references) on original and unpublished research on the field of social robots’ personalisation, addressing technical, ethical and/or socio-cultural aspects of personalised HRI. Papers will be reviewed for their theoretical or technical contribution and relevance.

All manuscripts must be written in English, not anonymised, and submitted electronically in PDF on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concatenate2023 

The accepted papers can be published on the workshop website, in arXiv and on the website of the European Training Network PERSEO, as it supports this workshop. Furthermore, we are also aiming to organise a follow-up, special issue in a journal such as the International Journal of Social Robotics, where accepted authors will be invited to send extended versions of their papers.

 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: January 20, 2023

Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2023

Camera-ready deadline: March 1, 2023

 

Workshop organisers:

Imene Tarakli, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)

Georgios Angelopoulos, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Mehdi Hellou, University of Manchester (UK)

Camille Vindolet, Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Boris Abramovic, University of Vienna (Austria)

Rocco Limongelli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)

Dimitri Lacroix, Bielefeld University (Germany)

Andrea Bertolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)

Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)

Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester (UK)

Gordon Cheng, Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Silvia Rossi, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

 

Contact:

concatenate.workshop@gmail.com

 

Kind regards,

Georgios Angelopoulos

Ph.D. Student & Early Stage Researcher (MSCA - ITN) 

University of Naples Federico II

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