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[meetings] [CFP] [EUD4HRI] HRI 2024 Workshop on “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction”
by DAVID PORFIRIO 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

** Apologies for cross-postings ** (SECOND) CALL FOR PAPERS: * What: HRI 2024 Workshop on “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction” (EUD4HRI) * When: March 15, 2024 * Where: Boulder, CO, USA (at the HRI 2024 conference) * Web: https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/eud4hri — IMPORTANT DATES: All dates are Fridays and times are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) unless specified otherwise. * Jan. 15, 2024: Submission site opens * Feb. 02, 2024: Paper deadline * Feb. 23, 2024: Notification deadline * Mar. 01, 2024: Camera-ready deadline * Mar. 15, 2024: Workshop (half-day) — OVERVIEW: End-User Development (EUD) is an exciting and growing field within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for novice robot users. Within academia, researchers investigate novel ways that EUD tools can capture, represent, visualize, analyze, and test developer intent. At the same time, industry researchers increasingly build and ship programming tools that enable customers to interface with their robots. Despite this increasing interest, the role of EUD within HRI is not well defined. EUD struggles to situate itself within a growing array of alternate approaches to application development, such as learning from demonstration (LfD), planning, teleoperation, and personalization. EUD further poses the question, “Who is the end-user?” Novice end-users might include consumers using a robot in their home, caregivers, factory employees, bystanders in public spaces, or even hobbyists, to name a few examples. Key questions remain, such as how EUD is justified over alternate approaches to application development, which contexts EUD is most suited for, who the target end-users of an EUD system are, and where does the interaction between a human and a robot take place, amongst many, many other questions. We seek to address these questions and challenges at the “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction” (EUD4HRI) half-day workshop at the 2024 International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction. The workshop aims to bring together researchers with a wide range of expertise across academia and industry, spanning perspectives from multiple subfields of robotics, with the primary goal being a more clearly defined scope for EUD and recommendations for the standardization of EUD use cases, target users, and terminology. The workshop will be hybrid format, including both in-person and remote attendees. — TOPICS: We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics: * novel approaches the application development, including the integration of learning and planning * interfaces for robot programming, learning, and personalization * formal methods in HRI * programming languages, representations, and paradigms for HRI * programming libraries and toolkits for HRI * open source initiatives * standardization of terminology, use cases, target users, etc. * the role of industry and academia within HRI end-user development * the role of related subfields of HRI (e.g., LfD) within EUD — SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit short papers of 2-4 pages describing HRI work, blue-sky papers, position papers, etc. related to any of the topics above. Submissions should be made using the ACM template<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>; Overleaf provides an appropriate template<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…> that may be used. The submission link can be found on the symposium website. Optionally (but appreciated), if you intend to submit a paper, please email co-organizer Laura Stegner (stegner(a)wisc.edu<mailto:stegner@wisc.edu>) with the subject line “[EUD4HRI] Intent to Submit”, and include the following in the body of the message: (1) a tentative title, (2) a tentative author list, and (3) tentative keywords. — MORE INFO: For more information, please visit our website (https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/eud4hri) or contact Laura Stegner (stegner(a)wisc.edu<mailto:stegner@wisc.edu>). — ORGANIZERS: * Laura Stegner (UW Madison) * David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory) * Ross Mead (Semio) * Severin Lemaignan (PAL Robotics) * Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory) * Bilge Mutlu (UW Madison)

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[Meetings] [CfP] HRI 2024 Workshop on “Scarecrows in Oz: LLMs in HRI”
by Nick DePalma 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

CALL FOR PAPERS - What: HRI 2024 Workshop on “Scarecrows in Oz: LLMs in HRI” - When: March 11, 2024 - Where: Boulder, CO, USA (at the HRI 2024 conference) - Web: https://scarecrows-hri.github.io — IMPORTANT DATES: All dates are Mondays and times are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) unless specified otherwise. - Jan. 15, 2024: Submission site opens - Jan. 29, 2024: Paper deadline - Feb. 19, 2024: Notification deadline - Mar. 04, 2024: Camera-ready deadline - Mar. 11, 2024: Workshop (half-day) — OVERVIEW: In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the focus of intense interest in the AI community and their use in interactive robots for academic research and commercial products has had equal interest; however, there do not currently exist guidelines for or categorizations of their use in various application spaces in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This workshop invites academic researchers and industry professionals who are actively using or are interested in using LLMs for HRI, and who can contribute to the development of high-level, community-wide guidelines for how LLMs can fit correctly and defensibly into the future of HRI research and development. Relevant topics to this workshop will include HRI studies that either directly or indirectly involve LLMs, as well as HRI studies that utilize the idea of “Scarecrows” [1] (i.e. using LLMs to provide placeholder functionality, similar to Wizard-of-Oz studies) within a larger HRI system; however, we also encourage broader questions and contributions regarding how these models should be conceptualized within frameworks for effective, responsible HRI. [1] Williams, T.; Matuszek, C; Mead, R.; & Depalma, N. (2023) “Scarecrows in Oz: The Use of Large Language Models in HRI”. To appear in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 10.1145/3606261. — TOPICS: We invite research regarding contributions, commentary, and questions about (and combinations of) the following topics of interest: - the impact of “stubbing out” software modules as “Scarecrows” (traditionally done with humans in Wizard-of-Oz contexts) by using LLMs when building and testing HRI studies; - opportunities and applications of LLMs in HRI; - risks and perils of LLMs in interactive robots; - reporting guidelines, ethical considerations, or real-world implications of LLMs in HRI; - safety of LLM-driven interaction and fine-tuned LLMs during interactions with the world or users; and/or - position or framing papers on the general role of LLMs in HRI. — SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit short papers of 2-4 pages on the topic of the use of LLMs in HRI; submissions are due by January 29, 2024. Submissions should be made using the ACM template <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>; Overleaf provides an appropriate template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…> that may be used. Submissions will be made through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sohri24>. — MORE INFO: For more information, please visit our website ( https://scarecrows-hri.github.io) or contact the organizers ( hri2024scarecrows(a)gmail.com). — ORGANIZERS: - Nick DePalma (Semio Community) - Cynthia Matuszek (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) - Ross Mead (Semio) - Tom Williams (Colorado School of Mines) - Ruchen (Puck) Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

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[Meetings] Second Call for Participation | RoboCup@Home 2024 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL)
by Sven Wachsmuth 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Second Call for Participation RoboCup@Home 2024 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) July 15 to 21, 2024 (Eindhoven, Netherlands) https://2024.robocup.org https://athome.robocup.org/ https://athome.robocup.org/2024-cfp2-all/ https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. Important dates: Jan. 09, 2024 Publication of the 2nd Call for Participation Feb. 12, 2024 Deadline for submission of qualification material (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Feb. 29, 2024 Qualification announcement Mar. 12, 2024 Deadline for Participation Confirmation Further information is published in the Call for Participation: https://athome.robocup.org/2024-cfp2-all/ With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Eindhoven, The 2024 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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Request for team qualification for Robocup '24
by PIYUSH KHANNA 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Respected sir/mam, We, a team of 4, have successfully created a completely functional Social humanoid robot with NLP, CV as well as the support to be able to be controlled through BCI (Brain-control Interface), through thinking. This is to humbly inquire whether we can take part in the Robocup 24 now. We had our documents as well as video demonstrations ready, but couldn't get regular updates about the qualification process starting dates. We see that 7 slots are still empty in the RoboCup@Home league and we have prepared our robot accordingly. I would be really grateful if you could guide us with further details. Thanking you, Yours faithfully Piyush Khanna,

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[meetings] [CFP] [TAHRI] Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
by TAHRI Organizers 01 Jan '24

01 Jan '24

New Year, New News! Please carefully read the announcements below for important updates regarding TAHRI 2024! — CALL FOR PAPERS: - What: International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI) - When: March 9–10, 2024 - Where: Boulder, Colorado, USA - Web: https://tahri.org — IMPORTANT DATES: - Nov. 6, 2023: Paper submission site opens - Dec. 1, 2023: Standard review paper deadline / Registration site opens - Jan. 12, 2024: Rapid review paper pre-submission deadline - Jan. 19, 2024: Rapid review paper deadline / Short paper deadline / Standard review paper notification - ~3 weeks after submission: Rapid review paper notification - Jan. 26, 2024: Standard review paper revise-and-resubmit deadline - Feb. 2, 2024: Standard review paper revise-and-resubmit notification / Short paper notification - Feb. 9, 2024: Hotel special group rate booking deadline — ANNOUNCEMENTS: - Want to give a second chance to a previously reviewed paper? Revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper by Jan. 19, 2024! Submissions are limited, are reviewed in the order in which they are submitted, and pre-submissions are required! Complete the pre-submission form (it takes less than 5 minutes!) by Jan. 12, 2024 to reserve your spot in the queue and ensure that your paper is reviewed! https://tahri.org/authors - Want to share promising technological HRI work or useful HRI artifacts (e.g., software, hardware, or other systems)? Submit a short paper by Jan. 19, 2024! https://tahri.org/authors - Want to hear from other technological HRI researchers and practitioners? We are finalizing an amazing lineup of ~20 speakers and panelists spanning academia, industry, government, and other research groups, including Andres Milioto (Embodied, Inc.), Gabriel Skantze (KTH / Furhat Robotics), Katherine Tsui (Toyota Research Institute), Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania), Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University), Sean Andrist (Microsoft Research), Séverin Lemaignan (PAL Robotics), Tesca Fitzgerald (Yale University), and Tony Belpaeme (Universiteit Gent, Belgium). More will be announced soon! https://www.tahri.org/people - Want to attend TAHRI? Our registration site is now open, and discounts are available for students and 2024 HRI conference attendees! https://tahri.org/attendees - Want to sponsor TAHRI? Review our partnership opportunities, including discounts for supported organizations and 2024 HRI conference sponsors! https://tahri.org/partners — Dear colleagues, The submission site is still open for the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI)! If you want to give a second chance to a paper previously reviewed at another venue, we invite you to revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper! Submissions are limited and are reviewed in the order in which they are submitted, so pre-submit your paper by Jan. 12th, 2024 to reserve your spot in the queue! Also, if you want to share promising technological HRI work or useful HRI artifacts (e.g., software, hardware, or other systems), submit a short paper! https://www.tahri.org/authors OVERVIEW: TAHRI aims to be the premiere symposium for HRI research focused on the advancement of the underlying technology enabling the interaction between a robot and a human. The inaugural event will be held on March 9–10, 2024, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, two days before and co-located with the 2024 HRI conference! THEME: The theme for the inaugural TAHRI is “Building Bridges Between Builders”, gathering HRI researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and other research groups who are focused on the development of HRI technologies. TOPICS: TAHRI seeks technological HRI contributions from a broad range of perspectives, including, but not limited to, robots, platforms, hardware, software, sensors, actuators, perception, control, algorithms, models, mechanisms, methods, interfaces, architectures, frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, tools, techniques, or other technologies that, with reasonable effort, can be incorporated into the design, development, or deployment of an HRI system. PAPERS: TAHRI is an inclusive, community-focused venue that invites novel, high-quality technological HRI papers that will be peer-reviewed in a flexible process, presented live at the symposium, and indexed in archived ACM proceedings. - [CLOSED] Standard review papers are for technological HRI work intended to go through a full peer-review process (including internal and external reviewers). - Rapid review papers are for technological HRI work that has been previously reviewed but was either not indexed or not published, that has been revised based on previous reviewer feedback, and for which a summary of reviews, rebuttals, and revisions can also be submitted. These papers are part of a new rolling review process (from Nov. 6th, 2023, to Jan. 19th, 2024), with a fast turnaround notification (~3 weeks) and a limited number of submissions! Pre-submissions are required by Jan. 12th, 2024, and take less than five (5) minutes to complete! See the website for important details. - Short papers are for recent, ongoing, or otherwise promising technological HRI work with preliminary results or details of accessible artifacts that are relevant to the HRI research community and show potential to promote discussions at TAHRI. These papers will not be indexed in archived proceedings. SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS: We are in the process of finalizing an amazing lineup of speakers and panelists spanning academia, industry, government, and other research groups. A list of confirmed speakers is below with more to be announced soon! - Andres Milioto (Embodied, Inc.) - Gabriel Skantze (KTH / Furhat Robotics) - Katherine Tsui (Toyota Research Institute) - Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania) - Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University) - Sean Andrist (Microsoft Research) - Séverin Lemaignan (PAL Robotics) - Tesca Fitzgerald (Yale University) - Tony Belpaeme (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) - … and more! CONNECT: For more information or to stay up-to-date on TAHRI, please visit the website (https://tahri.org), email us (info(a)tahri.org), or follow us on social media: - X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/TAHRIorg - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/TAHRIorg - Medium: https://medium.com/@TAHRIorg - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TAHRIorg ORGANIZERS: - Ross Mead (Semio) - Shelly Bagchi (NIST) - Jason R. Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College) - Emmanuel Senft (Idiap Research Institute) - Reuth Mirsky (Bar-Ilan University) - Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University) - Jeremy Marvel (NIST) - Megan Zimmerman (NIST) - Justin Hart (University of Texas Austin) -- TAHRI Organizers <https://www.tahri.org/people#organizers> *organizers(a)tahri.org <organizers(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>*

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[meetings] [CFP] [EUD4HRI] HRI 2024 Workshop on “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction”
by DAVID PORFIRIO 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

- Apologies for cross posting - CALL FOR PAPERS: * What: HRI 2024 Workshop on “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction” (EUD4HRI) * When: March 15, 2024 * Where: Boulder, CO, USA (at the HRI 2024 conference) * Web: https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/eud4hri — IMPORTANT DATES: All dates are Fridays and times are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) unless specified otherwise. * Jan. 15, 2024: Submission site opens * Feb. 02, 2024: Paper deadline * Feb. 23, 2024: Notification deadline * Mar. 01, 2024: Camera-ready deadline * Mar. 15, 2024: Workshop (half-day) — OVERVIEW: End-User Development (EUD) is an exciting and growing field within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for novice robot users. Within academia, researchers investigate novel ways that EUD tools can capture, represent, visualize, analyze, and test developer intent. At the same time, industry researchers increasingly build and ship programming tools that enable customers to interface with their robots. Despite this increasing interest, the role of EUD within HRI is not well defined. EUD struggles to situate itself within a growing array of alternate approaches to application development, such as learning from demonstration (LfD), planning, teleoperation, and personalization. EUD further poses the question, “Who is the end-user?” Novice end-users might include consumers using a robot in their home, caregivers, factory employees, bystanders in public spaces, or even hobbyists, to name a few examples. Key questions remain, such as how EUD is justified over alternate approaches to application development, which contexts EUD is most suited for, who the target end-users of an EUD system are, and where does the interaction between a human and a robot take place, amongst many, many other questions. We seek to address these questions and challenges at the “End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction” (EUD4HRI) half-day workshop at the 2024 International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction. The workshop aims to bring together researchers with a wide range of expertise across academia and industry, spanning perspectives from multiple subfields of robotics, with the primary goal being a more clearly defined scope for EUD and recommendations for the standardization of EUD use cases, target users, and terminology. The workshop will be hybrid format, including both in-person and remote attendees. — TOPICS: We invite submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics: * novel approaches the application development, including the integration of learning and planning * interfaces for robot programming, learning, and personalization * formal methods in HRI * programming languages, representations, and paradigms for HRI * programming libraries and toolkits for HRI * open source initiatives * standardization of terminology, use cases, target users, etc. * the role of industry and academia within HRI end-user development * the role of related subfields of HRI (e.g., LfD) within EUD — SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit short papers of 2-4 pages describing HRI work, blue-sky papers, position papers, etc. related to any of the topics above. Submissions should be made using the ACM template<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>; Overleaf provides an appropriate template<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary…> that may be used. The submission link can be found on the symposium website. Optionally (but appreciated), if you intend to submit a paper, please email co-organizer Laura Stegner (stegner(a)wisc.edu<mailto:stegner@wisc.edu>) with the subject line “[EUD4HRI] Intent to Submit”, and include the following in the body of the message: (1) a tentative title, (2) a tentative author list, and (3) tentative keywords. — MORE INFO: For more information, please visit our website (https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/eud4hri) or contact Laura Stegner (stegner(a)wisc.edu<mailto:stegner@wisc.edu>). — ORGANIZERS: * Laura Stegner (UW Madison) * David Porfirio (US Naval Research Laboratory) * Ross Mead (Semio) * Severin Lemaignan (PAL Robotics) * Laura M. Hiatt (US Naval Research Laboratory) * Bilge Mutlu (UW Madison)

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[meetings] [CFP] [TAHRI] Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
by TAHRI Organizers 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

REGISTRATION OPEN + CALL FOR RAPID REVIEW PAPERS - What: International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI) - When: March 9–10, 2024 - Where: Boulder, Colorado, USA - Web: https://tahri.org — Announcements: - Want to give a second chance to a previously reviewed paper? Revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper! Submissions are limited, so pre-register your paper today! https://tahri.org/authors - Want to attend TAHRI? Our registration site is now open, and discounts are available for students and 2024 HRI conference attendees! https://tahri.org/attendees - Want to sponsor TAHRI? Review our partnership opportunities, including discounts for supported organizations and 2024 HRI conference sponsors! https://tahri.org/partners - Thanks to authors who submitted standard review papers! We look forward to reviewing your contributions! — Dear colleagues, The registration site is now open for the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI)! Thanks to authors who submitted standard review papers! If you want to give a second chance to a paper previously reviewed at another venue, we invite you to revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper! Submissions are limited, so pre-register your paper today! https://www.tahri.org/authors Overview: TAHRI aims to be the premiere symposium for HRI research focused on the advancement of the underlying technology enabling the interaction between a robot and a human. The inaugural event will be held on March 9–10, 2024, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, two days before and co-located with the 2024 HRI conference! Theme: The theme for the inaugural TAHRI is “Building Bridges Between Builders”, gathering HRI researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and other research groups who are focused on the development of HRI technologies. Topics: TAHRI seeks technological HRI contributions from a broad range of perspectives, including, but not limited to, robots, platforms, hardware, software, sensors, actuators, perception, control, algorithms, models, mechanisms, methods, interfaces, architectures, frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, tools, techniques, or other technologies that, with reasonable effort, can be incorporated into the design, development, or deployment of an HRI system. Papers: TAHRI is an inclusive, community-focused venue that invites novel, high-quality technological HRI papers that will be peer-reviewed in a flexible process, presented live at the symposium, and indexed in archived ACM proceedings. - [CLOSED] Standard review papers are for technological HRI work intended to go through a full peer-review process (including internal and external reviewers). - Rapid review papers are for technological HRI work that has been previously reviewed but was either not indexed or not published, that has been revised based on previous reviewer feedback, and for which a summary of reviews, rebuttals, and revisions can also be submitted. These papers are part of a new rolling review process (from Nov. 6th, 2023, to Jan. 19th, 2024), with a fast turnaround notification (~3 weeks) and a limited number of submissions! See the website for important details. - Short papers are for recent, ongoing, or otherwise promising technological HRI work with preliminary results or details of accessible artifacts that are relevant to the HRI research community and show potential to promote discussions at TAHRI. These papers will not be indexed in archived proceedings. Important Dates: - Nov. 6, 2023: Paper submission site opens - ~3 weeks after submission: Rapid review paper notification - Dec. 1, 2023: Standard review paper deadline / Registration site opens - Jan. 19, 2024: Standard review paper notification / Rapid review paper deadline / Short paper deadline - Feb. 2, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit deadline - Feb. 9, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit notification / Short paper notification Connect: For more information or to stay up-to-date on TAHRI, please visit the website (https://tahri.org), email us (info(a)tahri.org), or follow us on social media: - X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/TAHRIorg - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/TAHRIorg - Medium: https://medium.com/@TAHRIorg - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TAHRIorg Organizers - Ross Mead (Semio) - Shelly Bagchi (NIST) - Jason R. Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College) - Emmanuel Senft (Idiap Research Institute) - Reuth Mirsky (Bar-Ilan University) - Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University) - Jeremy Marvel (NIST) - Megan Zimmerman (NIST) - Justin Hart (University of Texas Austin) -- TAHRI Organizers <https://www.tahri.org/people#organizers> *organizers(a)tahri.org <organizers(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>*

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First Call for Participation | RoboCup@Home 2024 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL)
by Sven Wachsmuth 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Please remind the on-coming deadline at Nov. 27 2023! First Call for Participation RoboCup@Home 2024 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) July 15 to 21, 2024 (Eindhoven, Netherlands) https://2024.robocup.org https://athome.robocup.org/ https://athome.robocup.org/2024-cfp1-all/ <https://athome.robocup.org/> https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. Important dates: Oct. 12, 2023 Publication of the Call for Participation Oct. 30, 2023 Deadline for submission of participation intention (optional). Nov. 27, 2023 Deadline for submission of qualification material (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Jan. 08, 2024 Qualification announcement Jan. 29, 2024 Deadline for Participation Confirmation Further information is published in the Call for Participation: https://athome.robocup.org/2024-cfp1-all/ With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Eindhoven, The 2024 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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[meetings] [CFP] [TAHRI] Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
by TAHRI Organizers 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

CALL FOR PAPERS #2 — What: International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI) When: March 9–10, 2024 Where: Boulder, Colorado, USA Web: https://tahri.org — Announcements: - Standard review papers are due on December 1st, 2023 AoE! https://www.tahri.org/authors - How does TAHRI relate to the Technical and Systems tracks at the HRI conference? How will the impact of TAHRI papers be measured (e.g., acceptance rate)? See the TAHRI FAQ! https://www.tahri.org/about#FAQ - Want to learn more? Watch our info session hosted by Talking Robotics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38nKtuMxGJc — Dear colleagues, The submission site is open for the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI), and standard review papers are due on December 1st, 2023 AoE! https://www.tahri.org/authors Overview: TAHRI aims to be the premiere symposium for HRI research focused on the advancement of the underlying technology enabling the interaction between a robot and a human. The inaugural event will be held on March 9–10, 2024, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, two days before and co-located with the 2024 HRI conference! Theme: The theme for the inaugural TAHRI is “Building Bridges Between Builders”, gathering HRI researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and other research groups who are focused on the development of HRI technologies. Topics: TAHRI seeks technological HRI contributions from a broad range of perspectives, including, but not limited to, robots, platforms, hardware, software, sensors, actuators, perception, control, algorithms, models, mechanisms, methods, interfaces, architectures, frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, tools, techniques, or other technologies that, with reasonable effort, can be incorporated into the design, development, or deployment of an HRI system. Papers: TAHRI is an inclusive, community-focused venue that invites novel, high-quality technological HRI papers that will be peer-reviewed in a flexible process, presented live at the symposium, and indexed in archived ACM proceedings. - Standard review papers are for technological HRI work intended to go through a full peer-review process (including internal and external reviewers). - Rapid review papers are for technological HRI work that has been previously reviewed but was either not indexed or not published, that has been revised based on previous reviewer feedback, and for which a summary of reviews, rebuttals, and revisions can also be submitted. These papers are part of a new rolling review process (from Nov. 6th, 2023, to Jan. 19th, 2024), with a fast turnaround notification (~3 weeks) and a limited number of submissions! See the website for important details. - Short papers are for recent, ongoing, or otherwise promising technological HRI work with preliminary results or details of accessible artifacts that are relevant to the HRI research community and show potential to promote discussions at TAHRI. These papers will not be indexed in archived proceedings. Important Dates: - Nov. 6, 2023: Paper submission site opens - ~3 weeks after submission: Rapid review paper notification - Dec. 1, 2023: Standard review paper deadline - Jan. 19, 2024: Standard review paper notification / Rapid review paper deadline / Short paper deadline - Feb. 2, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit deadline - Feb. 9, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit notification / Short paper notification Connect: For more information or to stay up-to-date on TAHRI, please visit the website (https://tahri.org), email us (info(a)tahri.org), or follow us on social media: - Medium: https://medium.com/@TAHRIorg - X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/TAHRIorg - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/TAHRIorg - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TAHRIorg Organizers - Ross Mead (Semio) - Shelly Bagchi (NIST) - Jason R. Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College) - Emmanuel Senft (Idiap Research Institute) - Reuth Mirsky (Bar-Ilan University) - Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University) - Jeremy Marvel (NIST) - Megan Zimmerman (NIST) - Justin Hart (University of Texas Austin) -- TAHRI Organizers <https://www.tahri.org/people#organizers> *organizers(a)tahri.org <organizers(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>* * <ross.mead(a)tahri.org>*

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Submission Acknowledgement VOLUME 08 ISSUE 11 ETJ (November 2023)
by ETJ 14 Nov '23

14 Nov '23

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