<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><b>Fifth International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction - Call for Papers</b><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">A two-day symposium at AISB 2016, 5th - 6th April 2016, Sheffield, United Kingdom</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Symposium Website*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mahasalem.net/AISB2016/HRI-AISB2016-Symposium.html">http://www.mahasalem.net/AISB2016/HRI-AISB2016-Symposium.html</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Motivation*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a growing research field with many application areas that could have a big impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and the kind of relationships we may develop with machines. Due to its interdisciplinary nature different views and approaches towards HRI need to be nurtured.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">The first symposium on “New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction” was held as part of AISB 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland; the second symposium was run in conjunction with AISB 2010 in Leicester, England; the third symposium took place during AISB 2014 at Goldsmiths, University of London, England; the fourth symposium was hosted by AISB 2015 in Kent, England. These four previously organised symposia were characterised by excellent presentations as well as extensive and constructive discussions of the research among the participants. Inspired by the great success of the preceding events and the rapidly evolving field of HRI, the continuation of the symposium series aims to provide a platform to present and discuss collaboratively recent findings and challenges in HRI.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Different categories of submissions are encouraged that reflect the different types of research studies that are being carried out. The symposium will encourage a diversity of views on HRI and different approaches taken. In the highly interdisciplinary research field of HRI, a peaceful dialogue among such approaches is expected to contribute to the synthesis of a body of knowledge that may help HRI sustaining its creative inertia that has drawn to HRI during the past 15 years many researchers from HCI, robotics, psychology, the social sciences, and other fields.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Important Dates*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Submission Deadline: Monday, 11 January 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Author Notification: Monday, 8 February 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Camera-Ready Deadline: Monday, 29 February 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Symposium Dates: 5th - 6th April 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Submissions*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Robot Companions:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots as helpers in the home</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots as personal assistants and trainers</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots in collaborative scenarios</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots as autonomous companions</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots in schools and in other educational environments</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Creating relationships with robots</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Robots in personal care and healthcare:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Assistive technology</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robot-assisted therapy</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots for rehabilitation</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Human-centered robot design:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Human-aware robot perception</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - User needs and requirements for HRI</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - User experience in HRI</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Sustaining the engagement of users</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robot and human personality</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Personalising robots</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Learning in HRI:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Robots that learn socially and adapt to people</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Human-robot teaching</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Developmental robotics</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Sensors and interfaces for HRI:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Embodied interfaces for smart homes</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Customisable HRI interfaces</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Multimodal sensor fusion</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Expressiveness in robots:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Dialogue and multimodal human-robot interaction</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Nonverbal expressiveness</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Social signal processing</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Architectures for socially intelligent robots:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Cognitive Architectures</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Behaviour Planning and Execution</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Empirical studies:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Ethnography and field studies in naturalistic environments</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Long-term or repeated interaction with robots</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - New methods and methodologies to carry out and analyse human-robot interaction</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Cross-cultural studies</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Natural interaction with social robots (euRobotics Topic Group submissions):</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Levels of social abilities</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Benchmarking of social abilities</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Multimodal interaction and communication</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> - Visionary proposals for future applications/ research</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Robot safety and trust</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Robots as remote-controlled tools</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Robots in search and rescue</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Social and ethical aspects of HRI</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The symposium encourages submissions in any of the following categories:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*N* Novel research findings resulting from completed empirical studies In this</div><div style="margin: 0px;">category we encourage submissions where a substantial body of findings has</div><div style="margin: 0px;">been accumulated based on precise research questions or hypotheses. Such</div><div style="margin: 0px;">studies are expected to fit within a particular experimental framework (e.g.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">using qualitative or quantitative evaluation techniques) and the reviewing of</div><div style="margin: 0px;">such papers will apply relevant (statistical and other) criteria accordingly.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Findings of such studies should provide novel insights into human-robot</div><div style="margin: 0px;">interaction studies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*E* Exploratory studies</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Exploratory studies are often necessary to pilot and fine-tune the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">methodological approach, procedures and measures. In a young research field</div><div style="margin: 0px;">such as HRI with novel applications and various robotic platforms, exploratory</div><div style="margin: 0px;">studies are also often required to derive a set of concrete research questions</div><div style="margin: 0px;">or hypothesis, in particular concerning issues where there is little related</div><div style="margin: 0px;">theoretical and experimental work. Although care must be taken in the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">interpretation of findings from such studies, they may highlight issues of</div><div style="margin: 0px;">great interest and relevance to peers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*S* Case studies</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Due to the nature of many HRI studies, a large-scale quantitative approach is</div><div style="margin: 0px;">sometimes neither feasible nor desirable. However, case study evaluation can</div><div style="margin: 0px;">provide meaningful findings if presented appropriately. Thus, case studies</div><div style="margin: 0px;">with only one participant, or a small group of participants, are encouraged if</div><div style="margin: 0px;">they are carried out and analysed in sufficient depth.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*P* Position papers</div><div style="margin: 0px;">While categories N, E and S require reporting on HRI studies or experiments,</div><div style="margin: 0px;">position papers can be conceptual or theoretical, providing new</div><div style="margin: 0px;">interpretations of known results. Also, in this category we consider papers</div><div style="margin: 0px;">that present new ideas without having a complete study to report on. Papers in</div><div style="margin: 0px;">this category will be judged on the soundness of the argument presented, the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">significance of the ideas and the interest to the HRI community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*R* Replication of HRI studies</div><div style="margin: 0px;">To develop as a field, HRI findings obtained by one research group need to be</div><div style="margin: 0px;">replicated by other groups. Without any additional novel insights, such work</div><div style="margin: 0px;">is often not publishable. Within this category, authors will have the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">opportunity to report on studies that confirm or disconfirm findings from</div><div style="margin: 0px;">experiments that have already been reported in the literature. This category</div><div style="margin: 0px;">includes studies that report on negative findings.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*D* Live HRI Demonstrations</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Contributors may have an opportunity to provide live demonstrations (live or</div><div style="margin: 0px;">via Skype), pending the outcome of negotiations with the local organisation</div><div style="margin: 0px;">team. The demo should highlight interesting features and insights into HRI.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Purely entertaining demonstrations without significant research content are</div><div style="margin: 0px;">discouraged.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*Y* System Development</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Research in this category includes the design and development of new sensors,</div><div style="margin: 0px;">robot designs and algorithms for socially interactive robots. Extensive user</div><div style="margin: 0px;">studies are not necessarily required in this category.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">*TG* Topic group submissions on “natural interaction with social robots”</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Submission in this category will be discussed in a session dedicated to the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">euRobotics Topic Group “Natural Interaction with Social Robots”. Topics</div><div style="margin: 0px;">specifically relevant to the TG are e.g. benchmarking of levels of social</div><div style="margin: 0px;">abilities, multimodal interaction, and human-robot interaction and</div><div style="margin: 0px;">communication (see list of topics above).</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Submission Format*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">We invite unpublished, original work as extended abstracts of up to 3 pages or</div><div style="margin: 0px;">full papers of up to 8 pages according to the AISB 2014 formatting guidelines</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(double column). In category *D* we invite one page descriptions detailing the</div><div style="margin: 0px;">demo and its associated research questions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In addition to paper presentations, the symposium will also include invited</div><div style="margin: 0px;">talks and, potentially, panels. The symposium schedule will emphasise critical</div><div style="margin: 0px;">discussions of the presented research as well as wider issues that are</div><div style="margin: 0px;">important to HRI.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Proceedings*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">All accepted contributions will be published in the symposium proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(hard-copy and electronic copy). A special journal issue will be considered</div><div style="margin: 0px;">and/or a book publication with a selection of extended versions of the best</div><div style="margin: 0px;">symposium contributions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>*Symposium Organisers*</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Dr. Maha Salem, Google, UK, <a href="mailto:me@mahasalem.net">me@mahasalem.net</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">Dr. Astrid Weiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at">astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Dr. Paul Baxter, Plymouth University, UK, <a href="mailto:paul.baxter@plymouth.ac.uk">paul.baxter@plymouth.ac.uk</a></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK,</div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:k.dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk">k.dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk</a></span></div></div></body></html>