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[meetings][cfp](SCRITA Workshop @ RO-MAN 2022) Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction
by Alessandra Rossi 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder that the paper submission for the fifth edition of SCRITA Workshop <http://scrita.herts.ac.uk> at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 are open! This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2022, in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 <http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/> conference, held in sunny and beautiful Naples, Italy. The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user recommendation. We will foster the exchange of insights on past and ongoing research, and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions of research with brilliant invited speakers and a panel of experts in the field. Please find attached below the call for papers. For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails below). Kind regards, Alessandra -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy ================================================================ * *** WorkhopTrust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction **** 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th - September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy http://ro-man2022.org **Important Dates** **Submission deadline**: 15 July 2022 **Acceptance**: 31 July 2022 People's ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and people. While advanced progresses are reached in studying and evaluating the factors affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots in controlled or short-term (repeated interactions) setting, developing service and personal robots, that are accepted and trusted by people where the supervision of operators is not possible, still presents an open challenge for scientists in robotics, AI and HRI fields. In such unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios, robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to predict and understand each other's behaviours. This workshop focuses on addressing the challenges and development of the dynamics between people and robots in order to foster short interactions and long-lasting relationships in different fields, from educational, service, collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. Although the previous editions valued the participation of leading researchers in the field and several exceptional invited speakers who tackled down some fundamental points in this research domains, we wish to continue to further explore the role of trust in robotics to present groundbreaking research to effectively design and develop socially acceptable and trustable robots to be deployed "in the wild". * Topics of interest include but are not limited to:* * Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI * Measuring Trust in HRI * Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI * Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots * Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots * Trust and Assistive Robotics * Overtrust in Robots * Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust * Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots * Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion * Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI * Mental Models and Trust in HRI * Trust and Safety in HRI * Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI * Trustworthy AI * XAI in HRI * Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics *Templates and Submission Procedure* We encourage participants to submit two-page abstracts or full papers (up to 6 pages) on original and unpublished research. We will also welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the workshop. All accepted papers will have an oral presentations. We further welcome authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. Video demonstrations should be accompanied by an up to 2 pages abstract describing the work and achievements. Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX < http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word < http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>. PDF submission will be possible via EasyChair < https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2022>. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript. Authors who want to include a video in their submission can indicate their plans via EasyChair and will be sent a link to a confidentially upload the video file. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers needs to register for the workshop. * Invited Speakers* The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alan Wagner, Penn State University, USA * Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo, Canada * Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan *Panel Session* The following experts have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Kerstin Sophie Haring, University of Denver, USA * Guillem Alenyà, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Spain

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GECON 2022 - CfP - Submission Deadline 30.June.2022 - 19th Intl. Conf. on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services
by Jörn ALTMANN 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

================================================= GECON 2022 - The First Hybrid Edition of GECON 19th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services http://gecon2022.gecon-conference.org/ ================================================= GECON 2022 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually. The conference is designed and meant to be a hybrid conference to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Extended Deadlines: Full, short papers: June 30th, 2022 Poster and new ideas papers: June 30th, 2022 GECON 2022 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes. Publication and Submission Guidelines for Papers ================================================= Full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers) shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages and WIP papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices). For further details, visit the GECON 2022 web page. Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2022 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>. The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication in a special issue of the elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. The selection of papers will start right after the celebration of the 19th edition of GECON 2022, whose extended deadline is 30 June 2022. Participation in the conference is an ideal opportunity to receive feedback from the GECON community. After the invitation to participate in the special issue, a 40% different content to GECON Proceedings modified text/results is expected. Topics of Interest ================================================= GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area. GECON list of areas includes but is not limited to: -Economics- Trustworthiness of services Ecosystem economics Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages Economic efficiency Techno-economic analysis and modeling Pricing schemes and revenue models Preemptible computing Metering, accounting, and billing Cost-benefit analysis Automated trading and bidding support tools Trust, reputation, security, and risk management Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction Economics of Open Data Trustworthiness and Assurances for Quality of Data Economic impact of distributed storage solutions Energy efficiency Sustainability Business models and strategies Decision support Ecosystems -Law and Legal Aspects- Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects Service level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement Governance of ecosystems Privacy -Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services- IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity Resource management: allocation, sharing, and scheduling Capacity planning Virtualization and containers Service science, management and engineering (SSME) Software engineering Security -Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy- Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings Energy-aware infrastructures and services Fog, edge, cloud computing Micro-services, serverless computing AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge Internet-of-Things Blockchains Community networks Social networks Social computing Shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange: (e.g. IPFS, Origin Trail, Decentralized Knowledge Graphs) Big data Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Data stream ingestion and complex event processing Open source Keynote Speakers ================================================= - Ittay Eyal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology - Elisabette Di Nitto, Politecnico de Milano - Ian Taylor, SIMBA Chain Tutorial: “Serverless Computing: State of the Art and Research Challenges” (Karim Djemame) ================================================= Serverless computing is revolutionizing cloud application development as it offers the ability to create modular, highly-scalable, fault-tolerant applications. The serverless architecture has seen widespread adoption from tech industry giants such as Amazon, Google and as well as the public domain, with open-source projects such as Apache OpenWhisk, Fission and OpenFaaS. This tutorial will present the state-of-the-art in serverless computing research, and provide useful insights into the main challenges that motivate researchers to work on this topic. It will also identify research gaps for future research. Conference Organization ================================================= Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain) Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Maurizio Naldi (Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA), Italy) Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes, France) Kostas Tserpes (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece) Contact for Questions: gecon2022(a)easychair.org @&@#^%&*%$@*#*&%#%^&$#@^@^&@%$@*^#&@ @%#&#@^*$@@#*%&%#@*$*&^@#$%@#%&$&%@ Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN office 37-305 Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program Schoolof Engineering Practice Collegeof Engineering Seoul National University 1 Gwanak-Ro, Gwanak-Gu, 08826 Seoul, South-Korea phone: +82 70 7678 6676 phone: +49 4155 129333 phone: +1 510 962 3062 phone: +44 20 32393134 fax: +1 610 956 4404 email: jorn.altmann(a)acm.org www: http://altmann.my-groups.de/

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[CFP] - SocialDisNER track ⚡ : Detection of Disease Mentions in Social Media.
by Darryl Estrada 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

CFP- SocialDisNER track: Detection of Disease Mentions in Social Media (SMM4H Shared Task at COLING2022) https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9f641e5f3d28301c54841c67fc044d2c8191cb75?ur…> Despite the high impact & practical relevance of detecting diseases automatically from social media for a diversity of applications, few manually annotated corpora generated by healthcare practitioners to train/evaluate advanced entity recognition tools are currently available. Developing disease recognition tools for social media is critical for: - Real-time disease outbreak surveillance/monitoring - Characterization of patient-reported symptoms - Post-market drug safety - Epidemiology and population health, - Public opinion mining & sentiment analysis of diseases - Detection of hate speech/exclusion of sick people - Prevalence of work-associated diseases SocialDisNER is the first track focusing on the detection of disease mentions in tweets written in Spanish, with clear adaptation potential not only to English but also other romance languages like Portuguese, French or Italian spoken by over 900 million people worldwide. For this track the SocialDisNER corpus was generated, a manual collection of tweets enriched for first-hand experiences by patients and their relatives as well as content generated by patient-associations (national, regional, local) as well as healthcare institutions covering all main diseases types including cancer, mental health, chronic and rare diseases among others. Info: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/c5728f76e1ed5005269d104d71dd52be2f9e1f9d?ur…> - Data: <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/e3e043a9d607f5bf3ca96770c0b03ecdce89a5e1?ur…> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359365 <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/c6a15ea9dcb91aa274a210b643b16e779c920331?ur…> - Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/registration <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/ce33e75824f6f84ea42b86800565d907cf615647?ur…> Schedule - Development Set Release: June 14th - Test Set Release: July 11th - Participant prediction Due: July 15th - Test set evaluation release: July 25th - Proceedings paper submission: August 1st - Camera ready papers: September 1st - SMM4H workshop @ COLING 2022: October 12-17 Publications and SMM4H (COLING 2022) workshop Participating teams have the opportunity to submit a short system description paper for the SMM4H proceedings (7th SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022). More details are available at https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/66f0903e1381332fb31268e504f6e95bc2d60e97?ur…> SocialDisNER Organizers - Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Scientific Committee & SMM4H Organizers - Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA - Davy Weissenbacher, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Ivan Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland - Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland - Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA - Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA - Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA - Yao Ge, Emory University, USA - Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong - Jey Han Hau, The University of Melbourne (Australia) - Luca Maria Aiello, IT University of Copenhagen - Rafael Valencia-Garcia, Universidad de Murcia (Spain) - Antonio Jimeno Yepes, RMIT University (Australia) - Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Universidad da Coruña (Spain) - Eugenio Martinez Cámara, Universidad de Granada (Spain) - Gema Bello Orgaz, Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) - Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health (USA) - Héctor D. Menendez, King's College London (UK) - Manuel Montes y Gómez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico) - Helena Gómez Adorno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) - Rodrigo Agerri, IXA Group (HiTZ Centre), University of Basque Country EHU (Spain) - Miguel A. Alonso, Universidad da Coruña (Spain) - Ferran Pla, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) - Jose Alberto Benitez-Andrades, Universidad de Leon (Spain) Darryl Estrada Full Stack - Web Developer * Text Mining Unit | Barcelona Supercomputing Center*

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

* Final Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org

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Call for Participation - 2022 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management
by Luis Gustavo NARDIN 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

2022 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management Hybrid Mode -- July 17, 2022 https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-workshop/ Co-located with the RoboCup Symposium 2022 [ https://2022.robocup.org/ | https://2022.robocup.org ] TUTORIALS ========= Hands-on activities to introduce and consolidate the participant's knowledge and skills with the Rescue Simulation platforms. The planned tutorials are: - Introduction to Rescue Simulation (2 hours) This tutorial will endow the participants with basic understanding of the structure and dynamic aspects of the Rescue Simulator and Simulation code. The tutorial also will cover more practical aspects: * Simulator installation and configuration * Simulation executions * Simple Rescue Agent Team code modification - Implementing Rescue Team using Python (2 hours) This tutorial will introduce the new Python API developed to interact with the Rescue Simulator. The tutorial will detail the communication protocol between the Rescue Simulator with the Rescue Agent Team and guide the participants through a step-by-step process to develop a Rescue Agent Team using the Python API via incremental assignments. - Unraveling ADF Framework The Agent Development Framework (ADF) is a modular and flexible framework that enables the development of Rescue Agent Teams for the Rescue Simulator. This tutorial will details the structure and propose incremental assignments to help participants grap the dynamics of the framework. The tutorial will also guide the participants through the installation and configuration of the framework. Please register in these Tutorials via the link [ https://forms.gle/EjdSdk4pSgGHFSU87 | https://forms.gle/EjdSdk4pSgGHFSU87 ] . DESCRIPTION ============ The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and simulation may contribute to the advance of natural disaster management. AI and simulation models and tools, however, have to embed the required features and capabilities of this domain application in order to support in real-world disaster scenarios. Hence, the collaboration with field experts and policy-makers in the natural disaster domain becomes essential. The workshop aims to gather together and build a community of researchers, disaster responders, and policy-makers interested in developing and applying AI and simulation techniques for natural disaster management. The workshop is relevant because it will help to create a bridge between technology experts and disaster management practitioners aligning their understand, interpretation, and expectations of each other enabling an environment for the exchange of ideas. The workshop will be structured as a mix of - Invited talks - Technical/Research presentations - Tutorials ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Luis Gustavo Nardin, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France - Dina Helal, Microsoft, Ireland - Farshid Faraji, Islamic Azad University of Bonab, Iran - Seyed M. R. Modarasi, Sorbonne University Paris Nord, France

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GSO-2022 in Auckland, NZ (December, 12-13)
by Mikhail Prokopenko 12 Jun '22

12 Jun '22

Dear All, The 10th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization will take place during *12-13 December 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand*: http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html (extended abstracts are due on 30 June 2022). The GSO-2022 conference will bring together invited experts and researchers in artificial life, self-organizing systems, and complex adaptive systems, with particular emphasis on emergent behaviour. Topics of interest that may be relevant to RoboCuppers include: swarm intelligence, cooperative and modular robotics, distributed AI, unconventional computation, complex networks, etc. If interested in participating, please send an extended abstract (two pages, pdf) by *June 30th, 2022*, by email to: mikhail dot prokopenko at sydney dot edu dot au (with subject line: GSO-2022 submission). The notifications are expected by July 31st, 2022. Authors of accepted submissions will present the content at the conference. A special journal issue will follow, in Entropy journal, a free media partner of GSO-2022. Best regards, Mikhail (on behalf of OC and PC: http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikhail Prokopenko | Professor | PhD, MA, MSc | FRSN Research Leader, Modelling and Simulation Research Group | Faculty of Engineering Director, Centre for Complex Systems, CCS | Faculty of Science Theme Co-Leader (Pathogen Emergence & Spread) | Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 549, School of Computer Science J12 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 7569 | M +61 414 897 703 E mikhail.prokopenko(a)sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au

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[meeting] Call for Participation - Conference "De la marionnette au robot"
by Salvatore Anzalone 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, dear friends, We are pleased to announce the conference: *De la marionnette au robot : manipulation, animation et expression des corps artificiels * The event will be held in Paris at the MSH Paris Nord on Saturday the 25th of June, 2022. The robot never ceases to populate fictional writings, essays, films and series; in the theater, its presence has a long history, linked to the exploration of otherness. The robot on stage seems to arouse a "disturbing uncanniness" linked to the cohabitation, as for the puppet and the mask, of animate and inanimate, of rigidity and illusion of life. Unlike these theatrical objects par excellence, the behavior of the robot and its autonomy determine a radical, external otherness, which raises the question of the overcoming of the human. This conference aims to question the techniques and modalities of animation and expression of artificial bodies, from puppet devices to robots, fostering discussions on points of convergence, divergence and overcomings, by bringing together engineers, artists and researchers in performing arts. The conference will also host the performance of the *Equipe RoboAct II *composed by artists and students of Paris 8 University, trying to synthesize their works on robotics, theatre and puppetry held in the last six months as part of the project *Scène et Robotique.* *The event will be held mainly in French. * If you are able to come to Paris, do not hesitate to join us! Feel free to register for the event through the following link: https://forms.gle/LmWtUv4nTJUcsE7r5 *Registrations of the event will be shared through the project's YouTube Channel* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ>* For more information, please, find here the full program of the day: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3znm7inh93zxtmn/Programme%20-%202022-06-25.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/7dm2lfpyww8srj3/Programme%20scene%20et%20robotiqu… And please, spread the information to all those who might be interested. Best regards, Salvatore Anzalone with Erica Magris and Giulia Filacanapa

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Fwd: [JOBS] 1 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Robotics and AI: Social perception in unstructured environments
by Dimitri Ognibene 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

[JOBS] 1 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Robotics and AI: Social perception in unstructured environments ######### Apologies for cross posting ######### Dear colleagues, University Milano-Bicocca is offering 1 doctoral scholarship as part of the “ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM)”. Main Theme: Social perception in unstructured environments Funder: National Robotics Doctoral Consortium Working place: Milan-Bicocca, University Deadline: 29th of June 2022 More info: https://drim.i-rim.it/en/ https://drim.i-rim.it/en/admission/ https://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/jobs Template for the motivation letter: https://drim.i-rim.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Template-Motivation-Projec… Contact: dimitri.ognibene(a)unimib.it Description of the candidate: We are looking for the perfect PhD candidate to find out how to enable robots to interact with humans in the wild considering the perceptual and computational limits they have. The candidate will have the chance to explore practical machine learning and more formal methods to develop the AI controller of social robots. There will also be the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration to look at how humans and other organisms solve similar problems. It will be crucial to be passionate about ideas and challenges (and maths and programming). Requirements: Applicants are expected to have good programming skills and be interested in further improving them. Knowledge of statistics, control systems theory, artificial intelligence, computer vision, as well as machine learning methodologies, and libraries would be an important plus. Similarly, the ability to understand and design psychological tasks as well as use statistical methods to evaluate experimental results and human-robot interaction effectiveness would be valuable. Experience with real-time 3d engines and/or VR platforms, such as Unity3D, Unreal and similar, or with robotic platforms will also be considered positively. Description of the field: In the last 10 years, with the advent of modern deep learning methodologies, substantial performance improvement has been observed in perception for robots and other artificial systems. However, interactions with unstructured environments pose high challenges due to the variety of conditions and crucial sensory limits, such as occlusions and limited FOV. This position will focus on the study and development of systems that can perceive others’ states in unstructured environments and predict their actions, intentions, and beliefs. A possible line of research would focus on adaptive and social active perception mechanisms that enable to dynamically deal with sensory limits and have received limited attention but play a crucial role in human perception (Ognibene & Demiris, 2013, Lee, Ognibene et al. 2015). It has been recently shown that such mechanisms may substantially improve learning performance other than execution efficiency and even enable online adaptation to new environments [Ognibene & Baldassarre, 2015], however, these properties have not been fully scaled to social conditions yet. Moreover, active perception also plays a crucial role also when interacting with other agents who add relevant scene dynamics and may occlude important information. At the same time agents may have their own sensory limits and active perception strategies that must be scrupulously parsed to support effective social interaction [Ognibene, Mirante, et al, 2019], e.g. false beliefs and theory of mind [Bianco & Ognibene 2020]. Most importantly, social interaction increases the demand for integration of information about task and context, i.e. simultaneous perception of the states of other agents, their effectors, and other scene elements which can be strongly affected by the limited field of view and challenging for active perception due to the necessity to focus on the right element at the right time [Ognibene, Chinellato, et al 2013] and adapt to different types of interaction. The work may not only focus on advancing technical performance but on understanding and modelling how humans perform and adapt social perception or on how to design active social perception to improve the perceived quality of human-robot interactions. References: - Bianco, F., & Ognibene, D. (2020, March). From psychological intention recognition theories to adaptive theory of mind for robots: Computational models. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 136-138). - Ognibene, D., Mirante, L., & Marchegiani, L. (2019, November). Proactive intention recognition for joint human-robot search and rescue missions through Monte-Carlo planning in POMDP environments. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 332-343). Springer, Cham. - Lee, K., Ognibene, D., Chang, H. J., Kim, T. K., & Demiris, Y. (2015). Stare: Spatio-temporal attention relocation for multiple structured activities detection. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(12), 5916-5927. - Ognibene, D., Chinellato, E., Sarabia, M., & Demiris, Y. (2013). Contextual action recognition and target localization with an active allocation of attention on a humanoid robot. Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 8(3), 035002. - Ognibene, D., & Demiris, Y. (2013). Towards active event perception. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). -- Dimitri Ognibene, PhD Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/ *Skype:* dimitri.ognibene -- Dimitri Ognibene, PhD Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/ *Skype:* dimitri.ognibene

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[jobs] Tenured Professor of Computer Science / Autonomous Systems at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
by Alex Mitrevski 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Dear roboticists, The Department of Computer Science at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences (Sankt Augustin Campus), together with the Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology (b-it), has an opening for a *permanent professorship (W2) for Computer Science, with specialisation in Autonomous Systems*. *The **application deadline is July 5th, 2022*; the position itself is available from Mar. 1st, 2023. We expect applicants for the position to meet the following requirements: * the employment requirements of §36 HG NRW, in particular three years of professional experience outside of higher education institutions, * very good knowledge of English, as well as the ability and willingness to teach in English, * pedagogical and didactic skills in teaching complex learning content, * willingness to participate in activities within the university, as well as national and international committees, * experience in the acquisition, establishment and implementation of internal and externally funded research and development projects, * active participation in the further development and expansion of our Autonomous Systems master's program. In addition, the following criteria would be desirable: * teaching experience at universities or comparable institutions, * willingness to also teach undergraduate courses that correspond to the topics of the call for applications, * willingness for interdisciplinary cooperation with other institutions within and outside the university, * evidence of international collaborations and networking with the professional community, * willingness to conduct courses and examinations in German. More detailed information about the position can be found at https://stellen.h-brs.de/jobposting/27baf466423c9b9ede4285f948072a29d1f6ab0… We would like to see more female scientists at our university and are therefore particularly pleased to receive applications from women. We also welcome applicants with children; H-BRS is a certified family-friendly university - and proud of it. People with severe disabilities are part of our university; we give them preference in the application process if their qualifications are equal. The position is suitable for part-time work. For information about the professorship to be filled, please contact the head of the appointment committee, Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender (nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de). In addition, the Equal Opportunity Officer of H-BRS, Dr. Barbara Hillen, is also happy to assist you (www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen <https://www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen>). Regards, Nico Hochgeschwender * We apologise for cross-posting* **************************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender Professor of Autonomous Systems B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center of Information Technology Fon: +49-2241-865-9634 Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University oAS Fax: +49-2241-865-8293 Computer Science Department Net: nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de Grantham-Allee 20 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Web: http://www.h-brs.de/de/inf/nico-hochgeschwender Twitter: @nico_roboticist **************************************************************************************** International Master Program on Autonomous Systems https://www.h-brs.de/en/inf/autonomous-systems-msc ****************************************************************************************

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(SCRITA Workshop @ RO-MAN 2022) Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction - SCRITA Workshop
by Alessandra Rossi 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder that the paper submission for the fifth edition of SCRITA Workshop <scrita.herts.ac.uk> at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 are open! This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2022, in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 <http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/> conference, held in sunny and beautiful Naples, Italy. The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user recommendation. We will foster the exchange of insights on past and ongoing research, and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions of research with brilliant invited speakers and a panel of experts in the field. Please find attached below the call for papers. For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails below). Kind regards, Alessandra -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy ================================================================ *** WorkhopTrust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction *** 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) August 29th - September 2nd, 2022 Naples, Italy http://ro-man2022.org <http://ro-man2022.org/> *Important Dates* *Submission deadline*: 15 July 2022 *Acceptance*: 31 July 2022 People's ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and people. While advanced progresses are reached in studying and evaluating the factors affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots in controlled or short-term (repeated interactions) setting, developing service and personal robots, that are accepted and trusted by people where the supervision of operators is not possible, still presents an open challenge for scientists in robotics, AI and HRI fields. In such unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios, robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to predict and understand each other's behaviours. This workshop focuses on addressing the challenges and development of the dynamics between people and robots in order to foster short interactions and long-lasting relationships in different fields, from educational, service, collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. Although the previous editions valued the participation of leading researchers in the field and several exceptional invited speakers who tackled down some fundamental points in this research domains, we wish to continue to further explore the role of trust in robotics to present groundbreaking research to effectively design and develop socially acceptable and trustable robots to be deployed "in the wild". Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI * Measuring Trust in HRI * Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI * Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots * Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots * Trust and Assistive Robotics * Overtrust in Robots * Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust * Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots * Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion * Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI * Mental Models and Trust in HRI * Trust and Safety in HRI * Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI * Trustworthy AI * XAI in HRI * Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics Templates and Submission Procedure We encourage participants to submit two-page abstracts or full papers (up to 6 pages) on original and unpublished research. We will also welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the workshop. All accepted papers will have an oral presentations. We further welcome authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. Video demonstrations should be accompanied by an up to 2 pages abstract describing the work and achievements. Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>. PDF submission will be possible via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2022>. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript. Authors who want to include a video in their submission can indicate their plans via EasyChair and will be sent a link to a confidentially upload the video file. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers needs to register for the workshop. Invited Speakers The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alan Wagner, Penn State University, USA * Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo, Canada * Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan Panel Session The following experts have already agreed to participate in this workshop: * Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK * Kerstin Sophie Haring, University of Denver, USA

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