SIRRW 2022: Towards Socially Intelligent Robots In Real World Applications: Challenges And Intricacies 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication August 24, 2022 |
Conference website | https://sirrw-2022.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirrw2022 |
Submission deadline | August 3, 2022 |
We are happy to invite you to submit a paper to our upcoming full-day online workshop at IEEE Ro-Man 2022. The “Towards Socially Intelligent Robots In Real World Applications: Challenges And Intricacies” workshop is your opportunity to present your work and get an overview of state of the art research in human-centred in real-life settings. Researchers from all HRI/Cognitive robotics/Machine Learning-relevant fields are invited to submit a 2-pages abstract or a 4 pages short-paper, before June 30th, 2022. Selected papers will be presented as either an oral presentation or in a poster session.
For more information, please see our website: https://sirrw-2022.github.io
Overview
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Being proactive, trustworthy and dealing with uncertainty are the current challenges faced by social robots in real world applications. To be seamlessly integrated in human populated environments, robots will be expected to have intelligent social capabilities on top of their physical abilities. Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence has a critical role in providing robots with such capabilities by addressing some of the complex computational challenges that naturalistic human-robot interactions introduce. For a robot to behave proactively and in a manner that is appropriate to the context of interaction, it should cope with uncertainty when dealing with elements that are not fully observable and often hard to predict, such as the states representing the dynamic environment and humans. To build trustworthy interactions with humans, intelligent social robots need to successfully address challenging issues such as predicting human intentions, goals, expectations, understanding and reasoning about the dynamic states of objects and other smart devices in the surroundings, and previous actions and their consequences while performing in complex situations. Trust is an important construct for evaluating adaptive social robot behaviors that could be inferred and evaluated through objective measures using computational models and subjective measures by human users. Such measures can be used to assess humans’ disposition to be vulnerable around robots. Hence, addressing uncertainty is one of the key factors to develop trustworthy AI solutions and endow robots with intelligent social capabilities.
Important Dates
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June 30th: Paper submission deadline
July 15th: Extended Paper submission deadline
August 3rd: Extended Paper submission deadline
August 5th: Acceptance notification
August 17th: Camera ready submission
August 24th: Workshop
Submissions
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Relevant topics will include (but not restricted to):
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Modeling human behaviour
- Communicative robot behavior generation
- Automatic adaptation and personalization of robot behavior
- Human-interactive robot learning
- Planning methods for interactive robot behaviors
- Perception for HRI
- Cognitive architectures for interactive robots
- Robot curiosity
- Safety/Trust-critical applications for HRI
- Human-robot collaboration
- Reliability and explainability of robot decisions/actions
Organizers and Contact
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Dr. Melanie Jouaiti (mjouaiti@uwaterloo.ca , University of Waterloo)
Dr. Sera Buyukgoz (serabuyukgoz@gmail.com, Sorbonne Université and Softbank Robotics Europe)
Eloise Zehnder (eloise.zehnder@univ-lorraine.fr , Université de Lorraine and Inria, Loria)
Dr. Amir Aly (amir.aly@plymouth.ac.uk , Plymouth University)
Pr. Kerstin Dautenhahn (kerstin.dautenhahn@uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo)