<div dir="ltr"><div>(Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting) Revised CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) November 14-16, 2020 Golden, Colorado <a href="https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/" target="_blank">https://sites.psu.edu/icsr2020/</a> ================================================================= NEW UPDATE CONCERNING COVID-19 </div><div> </div><div>The ICSR 2020 organizing committee hopes that you are safe and well. ICSR 2020 is moving to a virtual format because of concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving to virtual format will allow us to offer registration for the conference at a reduced cost. </div><div> </div><div> <div> == Important! == Submission deadline: June, 29th, 2020. </div>FORMAT UPDATE - full paper submissions can now be 12 pages (including references) </div><div> == General Information == The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. ICSR 2020 will take place in Golden Colorado on November 14-16, 2020. Accepted papers will be included in ICSR 2020 Proceedings published by Springer LNAI series. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Entertaining Robots’, which is meant to be a play on words signifying that robots can serve as captivating social agents but also suggesting the challenges associated with managing these artifacts. In the near future robots will be entering our social world taking on a wide variety of roles. The conference welcomes original contributions describing technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances in the area of social robotics and AI: innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its interaction and communication with human beings and its social impact on our society. Authors can submit the complete manuscripts in PDF format, or the use the LaTex or Word templates provided by Springer. Full manuscripts are limited to 10 pages. The front page must contain the title of the paper, full name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) and the appropriate academic field(s). All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Authors will be asked to submit their papers via the OCS submission system. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. == Important Dates == Submission deadline: June 29, 2020 Workshop proposals: June 29, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 31 2020 Camera-ready papers: August 17, 2020 Conference: November 14-16, 2020 == Topics == Because of the pandemic, we realize that it may not be possible for some researchers to conduct studies involving human subjects. Thus, survey papers and meta-analysis are also encouraged. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots - Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding - Control architectures for social robotics - Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots - Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments - Personal robots for the home - Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming - Robot ethics in human society - Robots that can adapt to different users - Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities - Robots with personality - Safety in robots working in human spaces - Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life - Social acceptance and impact in the society - Socially appealing design methodologies -Teleoperation, telepresence and remote interaction == SUBMISSION OF PAPERS == Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Full papers are limited to ten pages. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available on the conference web site or here: <a href="https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/ICSR2020" target="_blank">https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/ICSR2020</a>. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website. == WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS == Participants are invited to hold a half day workshops and/or special sessions on topics relevant to social robotics. Proposals on workshops and special sessions will be considered by the organizing committee. == COMPETITION == Our ability to host a competition may depend on the pandemic. We will update the conference webpage with information about the competition at a later date. == EXHIBITIONS == Our ability to host exhibitors may depend on the pandemic. We will update the conference webpage with information for exhibitors at a later date. == PUBLISHER == The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020) will be published by Springer International Publishing as part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). The proceedings of the conference are indexed by Springer Link and Scopus. Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics (Fall 2021). == ORGANIZING COMMTTEE == Honorary General Chair Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore General Chairs Alan R. Wagner, Pennsylvania State University, USA David Feil-Seifer, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Program Chairs Silvia Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tom Williams, Colorado School of Mines, USA Kerstin Haring, University of Denver, USA Publication Chairs Hongseng He, Wichita State University, USA Awards Chairs Boyoung Kim, United States Air Force Academy, USA Competition Chairs Amit Kumar Pandey, Hansen Robotics, China Sponsorship Chair Bradley Hayes, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Workshop Chairs Katie Winkle, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Publicity Chairs Paul Robinette, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA Patricia Alves-Oliveira, ISCTE / INESC-ID, Portugal Daniel Rea, Kyoto University, Japan Web Chair Vidullan Surendran, Penn State University, USA Standing Committee Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Maja Mataric, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore Jong Hwan Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pontedera, Italy Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA We are looking forward to seeing you at ICSR 2020! Sincerely, ICSR 2020 Organizing Committee</div></div>