<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Our apologies for cross-posting</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">——————————————————————————————</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">—————————————————————</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">HRI 2016 workshop: Call for papers 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Child Robot Interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Location: Christchurch, New Zealand</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Important dates</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Position Papers submission deadline: 25th January 2016</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Notification of acceptance: 7th February 2016</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Workshop Date: March 7th 2016 (Full-day workshop)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Website: </span><a href="https://evaluatingchildrobotinteraction.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://evaluatingchildrobotinteraction.wordpress.com/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Submissions should be mailed to </span><a href="mailto:c.zaga@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">c.zaga@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:c.zaga@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">c.zaga@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Social media:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Twitter hashtag: #evaluatingCRI</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Facebook group: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/CRIresearch/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://www.facebook.com/groups/CRIresearch/</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">-----------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Abstract and Motivation:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Many researchers have started to explore natural interaction scenarios for children. No matter if these children are normally developing or have special needs, evaluating Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) is a challenge. To find methods that work well and provide reliable data is difficult, for example because commonly used methods such as questionnaires do not work well particularly with younger children. Previous research has shown that children need support in expressing how they feel about technology. Given this, researchers often choose time-consuming behavioral measures from observations to evaluate CRI. However, these are not necessarily comparable between studies and robots. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines to share their experiences on these aspects. The main topics are methods to evaluate child-robot interaction design, methods to evaluate socially assistive child-robot interaction, and multi-modal evaluation of child-robot interaction. Connected questions that we would like to tackle are for example:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1) What are reliable metrics in CRI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2) How can we overcome the pitfalls of survey methods in CRI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3) How can we integrate qualitative approaches in CRI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">4) What are the best practices for in the wild studies with children?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Looking across disciplinary boundaries, we want to discuss advantages and short-comings of using different evaluation methods in order to compile guidelines for future CRI research. This workshop is the second in a series that started at the International Conference on Social Robotics in 2015 and will continue at the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Organising Committee:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Manja Lohse, University of Twente, </span><a href="mailto:m.lohse@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">m.lohse@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:m.lohse@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">m.lohse@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Cristina Zaga, University of Twente, </span><a href="mailto:c.zaga@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">c.zaga@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:c.zaga@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">c.zaga@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Vicky Charisi, University of Twente, </span><a href="mailto:v.charisi@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">v.charisi@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:v.charisi@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">v.charisi@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, </span><a href="mailto:v.evers@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">v.evers@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:v.evers@utwente.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">v.evers@utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Mark Neerincx, TNO Soesterberg / Delft University of Technology,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="mailto:mark.neerincx@tno.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mark.neerincx@tno.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:mark.neerincx@tno.nl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mark.neerincx@tno.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Takayuki Kanda, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan </span><a href="mailto:kanda@atr.jp" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">kanda@atr.jp</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:kanda@atr.jp" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">kanda@atr.jp</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Iolanda Leite, Disney Research, </span><a href="mailto:iolanda.leite@disneyresearch.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">iolanda.leite@disneyresearch.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:iolanda.leite@disneyresearch.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">iolanda.leite@disneyresearch.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">FORMAT AND SUBMISSION</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We accept submissions of position papers up to 4 pages (A4) including references. The submissions must be submitted in PDF format and they should conform to the HRI Late Breaking Report template ( MS Word and LaTeX2e templates available here<</span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">>). Authors names and affiliation are required.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The target audience includes researchers working on the topic of HRI (and possibly HCI) for children and with children. We invite people with all kinds of backgrounds that face the challenges of evaluating child-robot interactions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please send your position paper to c.zaga [at] </span><a href="http://utwente.nl/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><</span><a href="http://utwente.nl/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://utwente.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">>.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Deadline 25 January 2016.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">TOPICS</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Submissions will be selected on the relevance of the contribution in regard to the potential to generate interesting discussion at the workshop. The goal of the workshop is to discuss advantages and short-comings of using different evaluation methods in order to compile guidelines for future CRI research. Therefore, in the papers, the authors should reflect on the following aspects:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Details about the project(s) that the authors work on, like: what robots do the authors work with? How old are the children did the authors work with? Do the authors work focus on typically developing or non typically developing children? What is the goal of the project?;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Methods that the authors use, like: qualitative or quantitative;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Metrics, tools, toolkits that the authors use;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Best practices;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Challenges that the authors face when using these methods;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">• Solutions developed to address these challenges;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Evaluating child-robot interaction in education</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Evaluating child-robot interaction focusing on cognitive development</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Long-term evaluation of child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Non-typically developing child-robot interaction evaluation (e.g., ASD)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Evaluating socially assistive robots for children</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Multiparty child-robot interaction evaluation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Child-robot engagement evaluation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Evaluating child-robot interaction in play settings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Social Signal Processing to evaluate child robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Designing and evaluating robot behaviors for child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Suitable metrics in child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Reliable quantitative methods for child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Best practices in the evaluation of child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Qualitative methods</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * Tools, toolkits to evaluate child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> * New approaches to evaluate child-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">PROCEEDINGS</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We will make the workshop proceedings accessible on the website<</span><a href="https://evaluatingchildrobotinteraction.wordpress.com./" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://evaluatingchildrobotinteraction.wordpress.com./</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">>. Depending on the quality of the submission a special issue with extended versions of the position papers will be organized.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">---</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="2" color="#444444"><b>Patrícia Alves-Oliveira</b></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="2" color="#444444">Ph.D student</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="2" color="#444444">Lisboa, Portugal</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="2" color="#444444"><a href="http://patricialvesoliveira.com" target="_blank">patricialvesoliveira.com</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>