<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="moz-forward-container"> Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to participate in our HRI2022 workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. Kind regards Sebastian Schneider Call for Participation: Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces at HRI 2022 There has been an increasing number of examples where robots and intelligent agents are being deployed in public domains. Commercial solutions such as Pepper or Cruzr and more specialized robots serving as guards or providing delivery services are increasingly being tested in applications in everyday public environments. At the same time, customer value and business models for social robots or virtual agents in public spaces are still scarce, and there is no killer application for social intelligent agents (e.g., virtual agents, social robots) in public spaces yet. This workshop wants to break the boundaries between academia and business and give both sides a venue to exchange lessons learned and develop a road map on the technical, legal, ethical, and business challenges for deploying social intelligent agents. The workshop will be on March 11, 2022. For up-to-date details and submission instructions, visit the workshop webpage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/hripublicspaces2022" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sites.google.com/view/hripublicspaces2022</a> Aim The interactive workshop on HRI in public spaces aims to connect lab research, in-the-field research, and academia and industry. It will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent trends and challenges regarding deploying robots and virtual agents in (semi-)public domains (e.g., museums, travel hubs, shopping malls). Call for Participation Prospective workshop participants are encouraged to submit short position papers (max. four pages excluding references, submissions will be presented in lightning talks) on one of the below topics, outlining their work or interest in all areas relevant to the goal of the workshop: - design of service robots / public interaction systems - (audiovisual) social signal processing, activity/intention/goal recognition, and person tracking in real-world environments - automated planning, reasoning under uncertainty, decision making, and cognitive robotics in populated spaces - evaluation of robots in real-world contexts and user experience with robots in public spaces - knowledge representation, user modeling, and knowledge sharing in multi-agent service applications - multi-modal fusion and interaction management for real-world intelligent systems - robust spoken language processing, speech recognition in noisy environments, and natural language generation - business models, applications, and challenges of robots and virtual agents in public spaces - engineering and hardware challenges related to robots in public spaces - ethical and legal aspects for deploying intelligent agents in public spaces Important Dates: February 14, 2022 - Submission Deadline February 21, 2022 - Acceptance Notification March 11, 2022 – Workshop day Organizing Committee: Sebastian Schneider, TH Köln Werner Clas, DB Systel GmbH Dražen Brščić, Kyoto University <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Dr. Sebastian Schneider Cologne Cobots Lab Faculty of Process Engineering, Energy and Mechanical Systems Institute of Product Development and Engineering Design Technische Hochschule Köln</pre> </div> </body> </html>