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<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">/*************************************************************************************/<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO), Springer<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Special Issue on:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span class="moz-txt-tag"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">*</span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Robots for Learning</span></strong><span class="moz-txt-tag"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">*</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">/*************************************************************************************/<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Guest Editors</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">: Wafa Johal, Ginevra Castellano, Sandra Okita and Fumihide Tanaka<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Contact: wafa.johal <atepfl.ch, ginevra.castellano<at>it.uu.se,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> okita<at>tc.columbia.edu and tanaka<at>iit.tsukuba.ac.jp<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(you can download the CfP at: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://r4l.epfl.ch/IJSORO"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://r4l.epfl.ch/IJSORO</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Important Dates</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">********************************<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Submission of Manuscripts (deadline):.........<b><u>15-March-17 (extended deadline!!!)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Notification of Acceptance:..........................15-July-17<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Submission of Final Paper:............................15-October-17<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Final Acceptance:.........................................15-November-17<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Publication:..................................................01-January -18<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Overview</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">********************************<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Research in Human-Robot interaction is being vastly applied to assist<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">humans in their everyday lives. Pertaining to this context is the<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">application of robots for educational purposes, which has been emerging<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">these past few years. Some robotic platforms have been developed for<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">educational purposes (i.e. Thymio, Lego Mindstorm). These platforms are<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">mainly used in STEM. Several research projects have aimed to apply<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">social HRI to education and learning in order to influence other<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">disciplines such as languages or handwriting.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Robots have started to show a real potential as learning or teaching<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">assistants for children, the elderly or people with deficiencies. They<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">even show potential for individual adaptation for learning. Robots also<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">have the potential to enhance learning via kinesthetic<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">interaction. Social robots have shown that they can enable users to<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">improve their self-esteem and to provide adaptive empathic<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">feedback. Robots have even been shown to engage learners; to motivate<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">them in the learning task or to enhance collaboration in a<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">group. However, designing autonomous robotics agents able to adapt to<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">learners and to teachers is a challenging research topic. The<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">integration of robots in curricula for teaching other topics than STEM<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">is in its infancy.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To address these challenges, researchers often need to take a<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">multidisciplinary approach including contributions from educational<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">sciences & didactic, pedagogy, developmental psychology, artificial<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">intelligence and HRI, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">With this special issue we aim at collecting an overview on empirical as<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">well as theoretical state-of-the-art research contributions on social<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">human-robot interaction in educational contexts. Therefore, the<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO) invites researchers from<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">a wide range of disciplines, such as educational sciences and robotics,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">cognitive sciences and psychology, sociology, and philosophy etc. to<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">submit to the Special Issue.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Topics include (but are not limited to) the following</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">******************************** <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Adaptive mechanisms for robot tutors, personalization and adaptation<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> algorithms for tutoring interactions<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Theories and methods for tutoring (pedagogical and language<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> acquisition) <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Engagement in educational human-robot interaction <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Gain in learning vs fun in learning with a robot <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Kinesthetic and non-verbal communication in human-robot interaction <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Attachment and learning with a social robot (social and cognitive<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> development)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Impact of embodiment on learning <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Shared knowledge and knowledge modelling in HRI <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Technical innovation in learning or teaching robots<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Long term learning interactions, design and methodologies for<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> repeated human-robot encounters<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Human-robot collaborative learning<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Human-robot creativity <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Design of autonomous systems for tutoring interactions<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> * Privacy and ethical issues in robot tutoring applications<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For more information and updates, please visit:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black"><a href="http://r4l.epfl.ch"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://r4l.epfl.ch</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Submission On-Line (10-14 pages including references):<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SORO considers also accompanying multimedia material. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Description of the Journal, Aims and Scope, Authors' information:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12369"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12369</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please submit the journal manuscripts by 15 March 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Editorial Board is committed to speedy review, fast publication, and<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">high scientific impact.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Ginevra Castellano, Docent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Interactive Systems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Information Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uppsala University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">Box 337, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden</span><span lang="SV"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">Webpage: http://user.it.uu.se/~ginca820/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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