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May 2017

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CFP: IJCAI 2017 - HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT
by Mary-Anne Williams 31 May '17

31 May '17

=================================================================== *IJCAI 2017 **WORKSHOP* *HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT in the Home, Workplace and Public Spaces * =================================================================== 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence <http://ijcai-17.org/> Melbourne, Australia — Aug 19-25 2017 Workshop Date to be Advised: August 19, 20 or 21, 2017 *{INVITED SPEAKERS}* *Holly Yanco <http://www.cs.uml.edu/~holly/>*, Founder of the Robotics Lab <http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/>, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Director New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE <http://nerve.uml.edu/>) *Amit Kumar Pandey*, <http://www.amitkpandey.com/> Chief Scientist, Softbank Robotics <http://www.softbank.jp/en/robot/> Europe *{IMPORTANT DATES} *Submissions open: *March 10, 2017 * Paper Submission Deadline: *June 15, 2017 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)* Acceptance Notification: *June 20, 2017* Camera-Ready Version: *June 22, 2017 * Website: http://ijcaihumanrobotengagement.webnode.com Contact: Mary-Anne Williams <http://mary-annewilliams.com/>, The Magic Lab <http://themagiclab.org/>, UTS *{ABOUT}* Social robots are poised to have a profound impact on business, society and the global economy. They are a disruptive technology. A self-driving vehicle is an example of a social robot, not only does it need to drive on the road safely but it must also create enjoyable experiences for humans inside the vehicle, while at the same time communicating with and anticipating nearby cars, pedestrians, city infrastructure, land and space based technologies. The key to success of any social robot is how well it can engage people around it as it pursues its design goals. The critical research question is how can we design social robots to enhance the human experience and improve people's lives? The purpose of this workshop is to explore how social robots can generate value and create engaging experiences for people in the home, workplace and public spaces. The workshop will focus on social robots in the home, workplace and public spaces. Robot encounters in public spaces will be different to those in workplaces where a robot is a long-term partner and expected to help humans be more productive. The key research challenges are autonomy, proactivity and intelligence, sociability. Social robotics is a field involving several disciplines. We seek to bring together research interests that are not traditionally 'close'. In particular, the workshop will provide a venue for fruitful discussion between artificial intelligence researchers exploring pervasive computing, social robotics, cognitive science, software engineering, law, AI planning and knowledge representation. In addition to presented papers the Workshop will involve practical Design Thinking session and much lively discussion and debate on the applications and implications of social robotics. Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to the following: - Human-robot interaction and collaboration - Social intelligence for proactive autonomous robots - Law abiding autonomous robots - Engagement and disengagement in HRI - Human attention, proactive decision making and behaviour - Autonomy, learning and intelligence - Joint attention and emotional connection - Social robots in an Internet of Things ecosystem - Privacy and security for Social Robotics - Legal and ethical implications of social robots *{SUBMISSION DETAILS}* Submitted papers must be original work of no more than 6 pages in length and formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted electronically through the Workshop submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=whre2017 Formatting Guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word Template can be downloaded from the following link: <http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip> http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip Submissions must be in electronic form. Additional material such as videos may also be submitted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the work. Submissions received after the deadline or that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be considered for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. *{ORGANIZING COMMITTEE}* * Mary-Anne Williams*, University of Technology Sydney and CodeX Stanford University (Chair) * Benjamin Johnston*, University of Technology Sydney * William Judge*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia * Amit Kumar Pandey*, Softbank Robotics Europe * Meg Tonkin*, University of Technology Sydney *Jonathan Vitale,* University of Technology Sydney *Xun Wang*, University of Technology Sydney and Commonwealth Bank of Australia *{PROGRAM COMMITTEE}* * Nic Carey*, Harvard University, USA * Xiaoping Chen*, University of Science and Technology of China * Jesse Clark,* University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Tony Cohn*, Leeds University, UK * Kate Darling*, MIT, USA * Peter Gärdenfors*, Lund University, Sweden * Georg Gottlob*, Oxford University, UK * Daniel Grollman*, Sphero, USA * Michael Genesereth*, CodeX and the Dept of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA * Hatice Gunes*, University of Cambridge, UK * George Konidaris*, Brown University, USA * Eryk Korfel*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia * Mahya Knox*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Séverin Lemaignan*, University of Plymouth, UK * William Mailer*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia * Lilia Moshkina*, Neato Robotics, USA * Yukie Naga*i, Osaka University, Japan * Bernhard Nebel*, University of Freiburg, Germany * Suman Ojha*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * David Parkes*, Harvard University, USA * Pavlos Peppas*, Patras University, Greece * Sammy Pfeiffer*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Brian Scassellati*, Yale University, USA * Julie Shah*, MIT, USA *Harry Surden,* University of Colorado and Stanford University, USA *Manuela Veloso*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA *Roland Vogl*, CodeX and the Law School, Stanford University, USA *Holly Yanco*, UMass Lowell, USA *Xun Wang*, University of Technology Sydney and Commonwealth Bank of Australia *Mary-Anne Williams <http://mary-annewilliams.com/>* *Distinguished Professor* *Director, Disruptive Innovation* Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Founder and Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab <http://themagiclab.org/> (The Magic Lab) Fellow, Stanford University <https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mary-anne-williams/> Twitter: @SwizzleFish <https://twitter.com/swizzlefish>

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ERL Service Robots - Call for Participation in Major Tournament in Lisbon, co-located with IEEE RO-MAN 2017
by Pedro U Lima 04 May '17

04 May '17

================================================ Call for Participation European Robotics League (ERL) Service Robots Major Tournament during RO-MAN 2017 28.08 - 31.08.2017 Institute for Systems and Robotics at Instituto Superior Técnico (ISR/IST), U. Lisbon Lisboa, Portugal Web: https://sites.google.com/site/erlsrroman2017/ ================================================ The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot competitions which stems from its predecessor, the RoCKIn@Home competition, and focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment. The ERL is composed of multiple "Local tournaments", held in different research labs across Europe, with certified test beds, and a few competitions as part of "Major tournaments" such as RoboCup. Teams participate in a minimum of two tournaments (Local and/or Major) per year and get scores based on their performances. Scores of the best two participations in tournaments for each team are added and teams are ranked based on their cumulative score. Prizes for the top teams are awarded during the next year’s European Robotics Forum (ERF). For more information, please visit https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/. We are pleased to announce the second Major Tournament on the ERL Service Robots (ERL-SR) challenge, to be held between 28-21 August 2017 at the Institute for Systems and Robotics of IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal, simultaneously with the IEEE RO-MAN 2017 Conference. Important dates: ########## 31 May 2017 - Deadline for application and request for travel support 05 Jun 2017 - Qualification announcement 28 Aug 2017 - Competition begins 31 Aug 2017 - Competition ends Rules: ###### The rules of the competition can be found in https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/upload/about/ERL_Service.compressed…. NOTE: the rules can still be updated in the upcoming weeks, so as to adapt the Task Benchmarks shared with RoboCup@Home. For the Local ERL-SR Tournaments, the following task and functionality benchmarks will be (tentatively) considered: • TBM1: Getting to Know My Home • TBM4: Visit My Home • TBM5 General Purpose Service Robot (shared with RoboCup@Home) • FBM1: Object Perception • FBM2: Navigation • FBM3: Speech Recognition Application: ####### Applicant teams must send an email to erl.service(a)robotics-league.eu expressing their intention to participate in the Tournament and providing the following information about the team: - Team name - Team Leader name - Total number of team members (including the team leader) - Affiliation - Contact information (e-mail and phone of team leader) - Website - Qualification material (see below). Qualification Material - applicants are required to submit (template and form can be downloaded from https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/erl-service/about/index.html): - Team Description Paper (max. 4 pages, LNCS [3]) explaining the team’s approach to the technical challenges - including: i) the list of TBMs and FBMs the team intends to participate in; ii) a brief description of the robot system software and hardware architectures, and iii) the relation with the team research - including a list of relevant publications - Video showing evidence of some performance in the tasks and/or functionalities selected by the team - Filled travel support request form requesting and justifying travel support, if needed Selection Criteria: ####### Teams will be selected for participation and travel support based on _ number of available slots for team participation in the tournament (5 / five, in this case); _ available funds for travel support (maximum of 2K€ per team per year); _ team research quality, as measured from the TDP and list of relevant publications; _ team financial needs (as declared by the team request for travel support). ================================================================================================

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