<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">[Apologies for multiple postings of this announcement]</div><div> </div><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div> </div><div>We are very pleased to invite you to participate and submit at the Workshop "The human in the loop: perspectives and challenges for robots’ behaviours in Robocup 2050" that will be held in conjunction with Virtual RoboCup Humanoid Open Workshops (V-RoHOW) - June 25th to June 28th, 2020.</div><div> </div><div><div>Read below further information, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.</div> <div>Kind regards,</div> <div>Alessandra Rossi</div><div> </div><div><div> <div style="font-family:Calibri;margin:0px">Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow / PhD student </div> <div style="font-family:Calibri;margin:0px">Fellow of the Higher Education Academy </div> <div style="font-family:Calibri;margin:0px">Adaptive Systems Research Group School of Engineering and Computer Science University of Hertfordshire College Lane Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB United Kingdom</div> </div></div></div><div> </div><div>The human in the loop: perspectives and challenges for robots’ behaviours in Robocup 2050</div><div> </div><div>Current literature in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) showed that a robot aware of human social conventions increases people’s acceptability, and positively affects the outcome of the interaction. For example, we know that people do not like to be approached too fast, or from the back by a robot, or they might not prefer a robot to come into their personal or intimate space, among others. However, human soccer players will have close physical contact with robots when they will play against them in RoboCup 2050. Will players’ and audience’s perception of robots change? Will human players actually be comfortable in playing with robots even when the thrill of the challenge wears off? How will they perceive their own and robots' safety? Moreover, robots will not only need to plan, navigate and play soccer according to the FIFA rules, but they will also need to understand and infer the human players’ intentions and multi-modal communication signals.This workshop aims to highlight the future challenges that will be posed for the robotics community to allow human players to play against robots in RoboCup in 2050. We will particularly focus on the factors of human-robot interaction that can affect and enhance people’s acceptance, sense of safety and comfort in close physical interactions with robots.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Team Organisers <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bold Hearts<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hamburg Bit-Bots<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Electric Sheep <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Invited Speakers Justin Hart, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, US (confirmed)Luca Iocchi, Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy (confirmed)<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Requirements, recommendations and further infoNo hardware, software or knowledge is required to participate at the workshop. Attendees are invited, but not compelled, to present a two-pages input paper to be used as discussion points for a panel discussion held during the workshop with the invited speakers and attendees. The input papers can be entirely theoretical on a current open challenge on a Human-Robot RoboCup game, interaction goal, and etc…Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the <a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php" style="text-decoration:none">IEEE two-column format</a>. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: <a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LaTeX</a> or <a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MS-Word</a>.Organisers will look at the possibility of a joint publication of selected input papers, e.g. at the next RC Symposium. Authors can email their papers (by June 26th) to Alessandra Rossi (<a href="mailto:alexarossi@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">alexarossi@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Maike Paetzel (<a href="mailto:maike.paetzel@it.uu.se">maike.paetzel@it.uu.se</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) or Merel Keijsers (<a href="mailto:merel.keijsers@pg.canterbury.ac.nz">merel.keijsers@pg.canterbury.ac.nz</a>). <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></div><div> </div><div>Registration </div><div> </div><div>Registering to the event is free of charge and you can fill out the form following this link: <a href="http://hrisurvey.research.it.uu.se/index.php/347568?lang=en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hrisurvey.research.it.uu.se/index.php/347568?lang=en</a> </div><div> </div><div>RoboCup 2020 Virtual RoboCup Humanoid Open Workshops (V-RoHOW) <a href="https://humanoid.robocup.org/virtual-rohow-2020/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://humanoid.robocup.org/virtual-rohow-2020/</a> </div></div>