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www.icsr2014.org
The Fifth International Conference on Social Robotics
When?: October 27th - 29th, 2014
Where?: Sydney, Australia
Theme: Social Intelligence
Publisher: Springer LNCS/LNAI
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper Submission: 23 June 2014 (extended!)
* Acceptance: 16 July 2014
* Camera-ready: 30 July 2014
* Competitions: 12 September 2014
* Conference: 27 to 29 October 2014
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Tony Cohn, Leeds University, UK
* Peter Gardenfors, Lund University, Sweden
* Guy Hoffman, IDC Herzliya, Israel
* Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
INFORMATION
The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) brings
researchers and practitioners together to report and discuss advances
in the exciting and emerging field of social robotics. The ICSR
conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots, robot
services, and the integration of robots into society.
The theme of the 2014 conference is "Social Intelligence". Robots will
improve the quality of human life through assistance, enabling for
instance independent living or providing support in work-intensive,
difficult and complex situations. Fluent interaction and collaboration
with people will require that robots develop social intelligence a
critical capacity for negotiating complex social relationships and
environments. The conference aims to foster discussion on the
development of computational models, robotic embodiments, and behaviour
that will enable social robots to develop sophisticated levels of
social intelligence. The conference welcomes original contributions
describing technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances
in the area of social robotics: Innovative ideas and concepts, new
discoveries and improvements, novel applications of the latest
fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of
social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as
seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on
social impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its
interaction and communication with human beings and its social impact
on society.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and
environments
* Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities
* Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life
* Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots
* Personal robots for the home
* Social acceptance and impact in the society
* Robot ethics in human society and legal implications
* Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding
* Control architectures for social robotics
* Socially appealing design methodologies
* Safety in robots working in human spaces
* Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots
* Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming
* Knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social
intelligence
* Cognitive Architectures that support social intelligence for robots
* Robots in the workplace
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer
LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. LNCS style templates are available on
the Springer LNCS website. Full papers are limited to ten A4 size
papers, extended abstracts to two A4 pages. Detailed instructions for
paper submission are available at http://www.icsr2014.org. All
papers will be refereed by the program committee.
WORKSHOPS
Three workshops will be held on October 27 at the Conference Venue:
Robots and Art - Misbehaving Machines
Attention for Social Intelligence
Social Robotics for Health Innovation
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Regular papers may apply for consideration in the special sessions:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics
Social Robots for Therapeutic Purposes
EXHIBITIONS
Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations
at the conference site please prepare a one page summary describing the
demonstration and email exhibitions@icsr2014.org. Exhibition booth
will be allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2014 organizing
committee. The University of Technology, Sydney will make its PR2,
Turtle Bots and NAO robots available to accepted demonstrations when
required.
COMPETITIONS
Social Robot Design Competition: A search for creative ideas about what
a robot companion could be. This year we are accepting designs from
practitioners from any discipline, and in any format: designs,
prototypes, performances, videos or demos are invited for exhibition at
the conference. Please send submissions to competition@icsr2014.org.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
General Chair
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Program Chairs
Michael Beetz, University of Bremen, Germany
Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Advisory Board
Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy
Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
Jong Hwan Kim, KAIST, South Korea
Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore
Maja Mataric, University of South California, USA
Workshop Chairs
Alen Alempijevic, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Giuseppe Boccignone, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Bruce MacDonald, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Exhibition Chairs
Gavin Paul, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Greg Peters, Sabre Autonomous Solutions (SABRE), Australia
Local Organisation Chairs
Teresa Vidal Calleja, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Xun Wang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
PUBLICATION
The papers published in ICSR2014 will appear in a volume of the
LNCS/LNAI series by Springer. The conference's proceedings are
indexed by EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM
Digital Library, and Scopus.