Dear RoboCup@Home teams, please consider participation to this workshop that has been organized by the IEEE Technical Committee on RoboCup.

Best regards, Luca.

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HRI for Service Robots in RoboCup@Home

Workshop of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017)

Lisbon, Portugal, September 1st, 2017 (half day workshop).

http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/~labrococo/hri-for-service-robots/

The aim of this workshop (which is organized by the IEEE TC on RoboCup) is to present the challenges and technical developments addressed by RoboCup@Home to the research community in Human-Robot Interaction and to acquire feedback on the technical challenges in HRI, to be pursued through robotic competitions for benchmarking the performances of Service Robots.

The workshop is especially timely, as RoboCup@Home has just launched the standard platform league by selecting two platforms, namely the Softbank Pepper and the HR Toyota Robots. The adoption of standard platforms can be beneficial in several respects. On one hand it will make the competition framework more accessible to the researchers in HRI as the standard platform allows to focus on the HRI development, by exploiting exhaustive solutions for the basic functions. On the other hand, the use of a standard platform allows for a more specialized setting for benchmarking and comparison of the results of experiments aiming at assessing manifold design choices in HRI. In this respect, the workshop will also provide a forum to discuss the approach to benchmarking in other competitions, in particular the European Robotics League on Service Robotics (ESR-RL).

The technical programme of the workshop will include:

-- a session of technical contributions;

-- a panel discussion focused on the HRI challenges that are currently developed in the competition and can be added to the competition.

We solicite contributions to the panel discussion in the form of a position paper of 2 pages to be mailed at c********o@dis.uniroma1.it by July 20^th . The earlier, the better. We will send acceptance notifications and make the final programme available shortly afterwords.

Confirmed speakers: Manuela Veloso (CMU, Pittsburg), Pedro Lima (IST, Lisbon), Francesco Ferro (Pal Robotics), Amit Kumar Pandey (Softbank Robotics),Winners of RoboCup 2017, Participants of ERL event at IEEE Ro-Man.

Keywords: Gesture, Sound, Non-verbal communication, Facial expressions, Joint Actions, Behaviour Recognition, Proxemics, Spoken Language Interaction, Human Robot Dialogues, Social navigation, Social rules, HRI Testing, Performance Evaluation, Benchmarking.

Organizing Committee; Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Univ. Roma), Minoru Asada ( Osaka University, Japan), Daniel Lee (Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA), Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA), Pedro Lima (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)