<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div name="messageBodySection"> <div dir="auto">Dear colleagues, This is a kind reminder of the approaching deadline for submitting your works at the special session on Theory of Mind for social HRI that will be held in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN conference in the beautiful Naples, Italy. The special session aims to define and explore the needed level of shared mental models between people and robots for effectively planning, navigating, manipulating objects and the environment, and transparently communicating. We welcome submissions from experts in the fields of Theory of Mind, cognitive and behavioural robotics, and social HRI. Please find attached below the call for papers. For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails below). Kind regards, Alessandra </div> </div> <div name="messageSignatureSection"> Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor <div dir="auto">PRISCA research lab</div> <div dir="auto">Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy </div> <div dir="auto"> </div> <div dir="auto"> </div> <div dir="auto"> </div> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40);"> </div> <div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40);"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/k4Fhv4txIF-tK0z8_LCoyXHivemC_K7Y3GdmqtXHVNsZyyvMVIAAFhSlmL-JKTTV2H9roujrWUWgmmZRcQoSqY0lnP2dTvqFrVzkBMQjX6ybO5abfi-fWqqd_7jWRQPmIHRkh5vm" width="607" height="80" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div> <div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40);"> </div> <div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40);"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">================================================================================== </div> <blockquote class="spark_indent" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <blockquote class="spark_indent" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <blockquote class="spark_indent" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <div dir="auto"> <span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*** <span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SPECIAL SESSION <span style="text-align: center; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theory of Mind for social HRI <span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)</h4> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 29th - September 2nd, 2022 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naples, Italy <a href="http://ro-man2022.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://ro-man2022.org</a> <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ability of understanding and acknowledging others' mental states is known as Theory of Mind (ToM). Theory of Mind is a multi-modal system used by people to naturally communicate and understand each other. A growing group of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research focuses on investigating whether people form ToM towards robots, and what level of ToM a robot should have to communicate transparently with the humans in their shared environment in a sociable and accepted way. In this session, we want to probe deeper in the principal lines that can contribute towards this research direction. In particular, we aim to define and explore the needed level of shared mental models between people and robots for effectively planning, navigating, manipulating objects and the environment, and transparently communicating. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The topics covered in this special session include, but are not limited to: <ul style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li>Cognitive robotics </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Mental models in HRI </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Robot etiquette </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Theory of Mind in HRI </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">XAI in HRI </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Cooperation and collaboration in human-robot teams </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Detection and understanding human activity </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Monitoring of behaviour and internal states of humans </li> <li style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;">Motion planning and navigation in human-centred environments </li> <li>Multi-modal situation awareness and spatial cognition </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Social intelligence for robots in interactive and non-interactive tasks </li> </ul> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEMPLATES AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl" style="text-decoration: none;">Papercept</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">using the code for the special issue: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1y123 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the first submission, a manuscript can be of 6-8 pages including references. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, with 2 additional pages allowed at an extra charge. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will have to declare that the research presented in the submitted papers complies with the <a href="https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IEEE Code of Ethics</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic submission system. The templates for US Letter format paper should be used. The manuscript submission website will require that you submit your abstract and make any final changes to the author list and title of the paper before uploading the paper. 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-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LaTeX</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or <a href="http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MS-Word</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ORGANISERS <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II (IT), <a href="mailto:alessandra.rossi@unina.it" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">alessandra.rossi@unina.it</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Patrick Holthaus, University of Hertfordshire (UK), <a href="mailto:p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk</a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Shruti Chandra, University of Waterloo (CA), <a href="mailto:shruti.chandra@uwaterloo.ca" style="caret-color: rgb(39, 39, 40); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shruti.chandra@uwaterloo.ca</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>