<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>************************************************************************</div><div>Call For Late-Breaking Reports, Videos, Demos, alt.HRI, Student Design Competition</div><div>12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017)</div><div><a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/</a></div><div>March 6-9, 2017, Vienna, Austria</div><div>************************************************************************</div><div>The 12th Annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference theme is “Smart Interaction”, following Vienna’s “Smart City” initiative. The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>alt.HRI</div><div>---------</div><div>5 December 2016: Submission deadline</div><div>23 December 2016: Notification of acceptance</div><div>11 January 2017: Final camera-ready versions due</div><div><br></div><div>alt.HRI is a venue for radical, unconventional, thought-provoking and rigorous submissions that have high potential for impact. This year’s alt.HRI theme is "The Less Positive Side of HRI." Beyond human acceptance, statistical significance and algorithmic performance lie deeper questions of positive and negative downstream impacts, and the transformational impacts that HRI work can have on society. Given possible detrimental effects, what new methodologies or techniques can be proposed to encourage awareness and more positive results? We encourage researchers to consider the bigger picture of their work. Not just “can we do this?” but “should we?”</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed, in a double-blind fashion, by a dedicated alt.HRI program committee that will be announced on the HRI website. Accepted papers will be orally presented in the main program and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library along with the main conference papers. Up to eight anonymized and camera-ready pages (excluding references) are allowed. See the website for additional information for preparing alt.HRI submissions: <a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/alt-hri/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/alt-hri/</a></div><div><br></div><div>alt.HRI Chairs:</div><div>Heather Knight, Carnegie Mellon U.</div><div>Séverin Lemaignan, Plymouth U.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Student Design Competition</div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>For this year’s 12th Annual HRI Conference, we are reintroducing the Student Design Competition, last conducted in 2008 in Amsterdam. The competition has two primary goals:</div><div><br></div><div>To provide graduate and undergraduate students with a hands-on introduction to HRI through a team-based design project.</div><div>To engage students of diverse backgrounds working in technical, art/design, or social science disciplines.</div><div><br></div><div>Building upon this year’s conference theme of smart interaction, student teams will develop interactive robotic objects that enhance any level of the smart city environment. We encourage teams to identify and focus on a particular interaction context, develop their own interactive robotic objects, and create scenarios that illustrate how their robots fit within the lives of the humans involved. The competition therefore focuses less on demonstrations of technical proficiency, and more on the design of compelling interactions that inspire, surprise, and delight.</div><div><br></div><div>For more details and updates, please check online at:</div><div><a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/authors/student-design-competition/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/authors/student-design-competition/</a></div><div><br></div><div>SDC Chairs:</div><div>Sonya Kwak, Ewha Womans U.</div><div>Nagisa Munekata, Hokkaido U.</div><div>David Sirkin, Stanford U.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Late-Breaking Reports</div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>5 December 2016: Submission deadline</div><div>18 December 2016: Mutual Review deadline</div><div>30 December 2016: Notification of acceptance</div><div>11 January 2017: Final camera-ready deadline</div><div><br></div><div>The Late-Breaking Reports (LBR) venue at HRI provides authors with the opportunity to present cutting-edge and experimental research results to the community. It is also an excellent opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference. </div><div> </div><div>All LBR submissions will be lightly peer-reviewed, and published in the companion proceedings of the conference, which will appear in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEExplore. Authors will retain the copyright of their work, and can submit it to other venues. LBRs will be presented at a poster session during HRI 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>More details, including submission guidelines, templates, and mutual review requirements </div><div>can be found at: <a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/authors/late-breaking-reports/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017/authors/late-breaking-reports/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Late-Breaking Reports Chairs:</div><div>Hirotaka Osawa, U. Tsukuba, Japan</div><div>Laurel Riek, UC San Diego, USA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Videos</div><div>-----------</div><div> 5 December 2016: Submission deadline</div><div>19 December 2016: Notification of acceptance</div><div>11 January 2017: Final camera-ready deadline</div><div><br></div><div>We invite videos related to all aspects of HRI. The videos must be self-explanatory for the audience. A peer review process will judge videos on content, lessons learned, novelty, and entertainment value. Accepted video abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. See the website for additional resources and details on how to submit: <a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/videos/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/videos/</a></div><div> </div><div>Video Co-Chairs:</div><div>Jun Kato, AIST</div><div>Dan Szafir, U. Colorado Boulder</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Demonstrations</div><div>--------------------</div><div>5 December 2016: Submission deadline</div><div>19 December 2016: Notification of acceptance</div><div>11 January 2017: Final camera-ready deadline</div><div><br></div><div>The HRI 2017 conference will offer the opportunity to demonstrate innovative ideas and advances in human-robot interaction. We invite demonstration proposals for cutting-edge systems that make interaction with robots more intuitive, seamless, and pleasant, or otherwise illustrate some aspect of human-robot interaction in an exciting and engaging way. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. See the website for additional resources and details on how to submit: <a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/demonstrations/">http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/authors/demonstrations/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Demonstration Chairs:</div><div>Jun Kato, AIST</div><div>Dan Szafir, U. Colorado Boulder</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organizing Committee</div><div>----------------------</div><div>General Chairs</div><div>Bilge Mutlu, UW-Madison</div><div>Manfred Tscheligi, U.Salzburg</div><div> </div><div>Program Chairs</div><div>Astrid Weiss, Vienna U. Technology</div><div>Jim Young, U.Manitoba</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>