<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for Papers – SCIAR@IROS2022</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
distribute this call to interested parties</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop on Social and Cognitive Interactions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">for Assistive Robotics
(SCIAR)-- <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">HYBRID</span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The 2022 IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://sciar-workshop.github.io/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://sciar-workshop.github.io/</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SCIAR is
dedicated to developing computational approaches for natural and social
human-robot interaction for Assistive Robotics Technology. We are calling for
innovative research ideas, novel theories and models related to social
assistive robotics, cutting-edge computational methods including either
traditional statistical methods or deep-learning-based methods, as well as new
simulation tools, datasets, benchmarks and evaluation protocols. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
attention is given to cognitive interaction analysis that features the
interpretation of human interactions, with a particular emphasis on the
nonverbal signals, in order to facilitate a more natural and social
interaction. We also welcome research that focuses on the decision making and
the physical interactions that can potentially benefit from the understanding
of cognitive interactions between the human and robot.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The
list of topics addressed in the workshop are listed below, but not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Recognition
of individual’s and/or social group’s activity for social (assistive) robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(Real-time)
recognition of human social signals, e.g., gaze, gesture, vocal activity, etc.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Inference
of human intentions for social (assistive) robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mechanisms
of social cognition (joint attention, spatial perspective taking, action
prediction, theory of mind) in human-robot interaction</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cognitive
architectures for assistive social robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Affective
human-robot interaction (individuals, dyads and groups)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Developing
emotion-aware and/or personality-aware robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Interactive/active
learning for social robotics</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Transfer
learning, meta-learning, reinforcement learning and learning from demonstration
for human-robot social interactions</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Multi-sensor
fusion for social (assistive) robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Human-robot
engagement prediction</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Applications
of human- socially assistive robot interactions (e.g. for health, education,
entertainment, business)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ambient
assisted living</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Human
robot interactions and cognitive impairments</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Social
acceptance of robots based on human nonverbal behavioral cues (e.g., eye gaze, facial
expressions, group formations)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Interactional
synchrony between human and social robots</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Human-robot
interaction styles</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot
navigation problem in social interaction scenarios (e.g., adaptive planning)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Invited
Speakers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Alessandra Sciutti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT),
IT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof.
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof.
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Ginevra Castellano, Uppsala University, SE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr.
Hae Won Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof.
Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof.
Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission
Guidelines:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For
submission details please visit: <i><a href="https://sciar-workshop.github.io/contributions/">https://sciar-workshop.github.io/contributions/</a></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop submission deadline: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">19 September</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Workshop author notification:
3 October</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Finalized workshop program: 14 October</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Organizers:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cigdem
Beyan, University of Trento, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yiming
Wang, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fei
Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Séverin
Lemaignan, PAL Robotics, Spain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Elisa
Ricci, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Looking forward to your submission!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The workshop organizers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p></div></div></div>