<div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Call for Papers for the Special Session "Societal Consequences of Human-Robot Interaction"</font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communciation (RO-MAN 2020)  <br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">31 August- 4 September 2020, Naples (Italy)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://ro-man2020.unina.it/special-sessions.php" target="_blank">http://ro-man2020.unina.it/special-sessions.php</a>  <br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">==== Important Dates ====</font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Submission deadline: 15th March 2020</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Author notification: 27th May 2020</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Camera ready due: 15th June 2020</font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Conference: 31st August- 4th September 2020 </font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">==== Overview ====</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-d70aecd5-7fff-295b-25ef-97df670a9729"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This special session welcomes papers that address the societal consequences of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). As social robots will become increasingly autonomous and present in our daily life in the years to come, the field of HRI and Social Robotics should investigate the potential challenges that their pervasive presence could bring about, and set legal and ethical boundaries to their use. With this special session, we aim at understanding: how will the pervasive interaction with social robots change human behavior? Do humans comply with norm-violating social robots? Do bias and discrimination observable in human-human interaction extend to HRI? How can we legally and ethically limit the misuse of social robots?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><b><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We accept papers that explore how the exposure to and interaction with norm-violating social robots (e.g., cheating robots, bribing robots, erratic robots) could affect human behavior (e.g., conformity), and how concepts such as </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">trust</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">familiarity</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rapport </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">affect people’s reactions to such robots. Moreover, we welcome papers that assess human misconduct with robots in terms of discrimination (e.g., racism/racialization, sexism/sexualization) and mistreatment (e.g., bullying, verbal disinhibition, violent behavior), but also papers that investigate how we, as humans, react to robotic harm. </span></b><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>As the debate on the societal consequences of HRI should be addressed from a multidisciplinary point of view, we also accept papers that present legal and ethical frameworks on social robotics’ use and data collection, especially concerning vulnerable populations, such as children and persons with disabilities (e.g., people with dementia). In this sense, topics of interest are liability and accountability, transparency and explainability in HRI, and deception.</b></span></p></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">==== Scope and Topics ====</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-52d50f7b-7fff-ca83-fbd6-08d605dd8b90"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics include but are not limited to:</span></p></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Conformity to social robots </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Social robots violating injunctive norms</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cheating/Bribing robots </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Faulty robots/Erratic social robots </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Deceptive social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Social Engineering in HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Racism/Racialization of social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sexism/Sexualization of robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Unconscious bias towards social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Bullyism towards social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Misuse/Abuse of social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Verbal disinhibition towards social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Violent behavior towards social robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Human reactions to robotic harm</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Surveillance capitalism in Social Robotics</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Accountability/Liability in HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Transparency/Explainability in HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Deception in HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ethical implications of misbehaving robots</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Mapping responsibilities in HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Unintended consequences of HRI</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">==== Submissions ====</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via <a href="https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">Papercept</a>. For the first submission, a manuscript can be of 6-8 pages. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process. To have the paper included in the Special Session, authors should specify the<b> session code</b><b> 9c434 </b>when submitting the paper.<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">For more information about the Special Session, please check the full proposal at this link:<a href="https://giuliaperugia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Full-proposal-Special-Session.pdf" target="_blank">https://giuliaperugia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Full-proposal-Special-Session.pdf</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">==== Organizers ====</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Giulia Perugia (Main Organizer)</span><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Postdoctoral Researcher (Uppsala University, Sweden), </span><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:giulia.perugia@it.uu.se" target="_blank">giulia.perugia@it.uu.se</a></span></font></div><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-9be0a402-7fff-20c8-ffa0-1ba2335fd257"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Postdoctoral Researcher (Leiden University, Netherlands),</span><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-9be0a402-7fff-20c8-ffa0-1ba2335fd257"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> e</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.<a href="mailto:fosch.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl" target="_blank">fosch.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl</a></span></span>  </font></p></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-a796a002-7fff-e6b7-dbc3-43d2a002bdad"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Alexander Mois Aroyo</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Postdoctoral researcher (University of Waterloo, Canada), </span><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:alexander.aroyo@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">alexander.aroyo@uwaterloo.ca</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Alessandra Sciutti</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Tenure-track researcher (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy), a</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:lessandra.sciutti@iit.it" target="_blank">lessandra.sciutti@iit.it</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prof. Ginevra Castellano</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Full Professor (Uppsala University, Sweden), </span><span id="gmail-m_6859570826110809585gmail-docs-internal-guid-8e3b9214-7fff-7ce4-fba8-b32eac626db0"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se" target="_blank">ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se</a></span></span>  </p></span></font></div></div>