<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;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the 2017 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneers </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop Date : 6 March 2017</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location : Vienna, Austria</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop URL and Program: <a href="http://www.hripioneers.info/hri17/index.html">http://www.hripioneers.info/hri17/index.html</a></span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The twelfth annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria on Monday, March 6, 2017 in conjunction with the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. </span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pioneers seeks to foster creativity and collaboration surrounding key challenges in human-robot interaction and empower students early in their academic careers. Each year, the workshop brings together a cohort of the world's top student researchers and provides the opportunity for students to present and discuss their work with distinguished student peers and senior scholars in the field.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pioneers is a premiere forum for graduate students in HRI, thus we invite students at any stage of their academic career to consider applying. To facilitate attendance, we expect to provide financial support to accepted students to help mitigate the costs of the workshop and main conference.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Masters students, such as those enrolled in an MS/PhD or those continuing onto a PhD program, are welcome to apply.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPORTANT DATES </span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 4 November 2016 – Application Deadline</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 4 January 2017 – Notification of Acceptance</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 20 January 2017 - Camera-Ready Deadline</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 6 March 2017 – HRI Pioneers Workshop</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- 6-10 March 2017 – HRI 2016 Conference</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & REVIEW PROCESS</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to human-robot interaction, should submit the following materials:</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Extended abstract – an anonymized two-page description of the applicant’s past, current, or proposed work. In particular, it should cover:</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the key research questions/motivation of the applicant’s work,</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- background and related work that informs the research,</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the research approach and methodology, and</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. CV – a two-page curriculum vitae of the student.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission website: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hripioneers2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hripioneers2017</a></span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further details, including templates, are now available on the workshop website at <a href="http://www.hripioneers.info/hri17/index.html">http://www.hripioneers.info/hri17/index.html</a></span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The application process will be open until November 4, 2016.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The HRI Pioneers Workshop will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including:</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the quality of the submission (blind review),</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the expected benefits of the workshop for the applicant’s PhD research,</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- the applicant’s contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions. As such, we do not expect more than two students to be invited per institution. In</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">addition, we especially encourage underrepresented minorities and women to apply.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUBLICATION & ATTENDANCE</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Pioneers Workshop and the main conference poster session, at which they will present their work as a poster.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A detailed program for the workshop and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CONTACT FOR GENERAL ENQUIRIES</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:questions@hripioneers.info">questions@hripioneers.info</a></span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br> </span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Please include "Question" in the email's subject</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FOLLOW US</span></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HRIPioneers" style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/HRIPioneers</a></span></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hripioneers" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/hripioneers</span></a></div> <br style="font-family: helvetica;"> <div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">----</span></div> </body> </html>