IJCAI 2017 HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT in the Home, Workplace and Public Spaces WORKSHOP

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

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 transdisciplinary field. 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 an ideation 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

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: *May 15, 2017 *(EasyChair Submission Website will Open in March)

Acceptance Notification: *June 8, 2017*

Camera-Ready Version: *June 22, 2017*

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, which will be available in March from Workshop website.

Formatting Guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word Template can be dowloaded from here 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

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

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Place: IJCAI-17 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence http://ijcai-17.org/, Melbourne, Australia. Workshop Date to be Advised: August 19, 20 or 21, 2017 Website: http://ijcaihumanrobotengagement.webnode.com

Contact: Mary-Anne Williams http://mary-annewilliams.com/, The Magic Lab, UTS