SentiRobots'2023: 2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots Middlesex University Mauritius Island of Mauritius, Mauritius, June 27-30, 2023

SENTIROBOTS WORKSHOP

2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots

27-30, June 2023 - Island of Mauritius, Mauritius

Collocated with IE 2023 - 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments

The Second Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SENTIRobots) aims to enable synergy among key aspects in this area, such as how to manage the sensory capacity of robots to gather the information needed for the recognition of human emotions, how to improve machine learning techniques to be suitable for social robots, and how to manage different modalities with efficient fusion methods. This workshop provides a venue for members from a range of international institutions, including universities, research labs, and industry to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze, present, and discuss latest research and development issues, and propose theoretical foundations related to research on combining solutions for developing efficient and suitable solutions for emotion and sentiment detection for social robots. This synergistic focus will enforce the engineering of intelligent and innovative solutions in this regard to guide their design and to promote the development of new approaches (architectures, tools, and models) of emotion/sentiment recognition in the social robotics area.

Topics of interest may include, but are in no way limited to:

• Sentiment Analysis in Social Robotics.
• Emotion Recognition in Social Robotics.
• HRI Enhanced with Sentiment/Emotion Detection.
• Multimodal and Multisource Sentiment/Emotion Detection for Social Robots. 
• Machine Learning Models for Sentiment/Emotion Recognition in Social Robotics.
• Datasets and Data Pre-processing for Unimodal and Multimodal Sentiment/Emotion Recognition.
• Protocols for Data Acquisition in Social Robotics for further Analysis.
• Frameworks and Toolkits to build Sentiment/Emotion Recognition Systems in Robotics.
• Applications of social HRI to provide Services, Entertainment, Teaching, Comfort, Assistance for Children, Elderly, Handicapped and others.

Important dates

Paper Submission: March 1st, 2023

Notification of Acceptance: April 5th, 2023

Camera Ready: April 15th, 2023

Submission

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers for evaluation by the Program Committee. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers with expertise in the area. This process will result in constructive feedback to the authors and the selection of the best contributions to be presented in the workshop and published in the proceedings. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to the workshop. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. 

All papers accepted for publication must follow the formatting rules for Springer Proceedings (https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions) and be written in English, with a length of at least 6 but no more than 10 pages. Latex and Word templates can be found in http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors. 

Important note for double blind review policy: The version of papers for evaluation by the Program Committee, saved in PDF format, must not include identification, e-mail, affiliation of the authors, grants, funding institution or any explicit information, that may disclose the authors’ identity (this information is to be restored in the camera-ready version upon acceptance). Please remove author names and affiliations (or replace it with Xs) on submitted papers. In particular, in the version submitted for review please avoid explicit auto-references, such as “as we shown in [1]” — consider “as shown in [1]“. i.e., you may cite your own previous works provided that it is not deducible from the text that the cited work belongs to the authors. This information must only be available in the camera-ready version of accepted papers, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. The submission system for this workshop is based on EasyChair. To submit or upload a paper please go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sentirobots2023. 

All papers accepted in the Workshops program will be published as a volume of the Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Series of IOS Press and electronically available through ACM Digital Library. The proceedings will be ISI indexed.