<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p></p> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> Dear colleagues,</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> We kindly invite you to participate and submit your paper contributions to the ACII 2022 workshop “AR4W: Affective Robotics For Wellbeing”, to be held in October 17th, 2022 in Nara, Japan.</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> *****************************************************************</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>AR4W</b>: The 1st Workshop on “Affective Robotics For Wellbeing”</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> Co-located with <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facii-conf.net%2F2022%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cms2871%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C9f64eee6eaf44e177a8908da425b57d5%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C0%7C0%7C637895257323477721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D9GWOKTalChN7naUaFSHZ0P4Ym%2F6SMbnJqTJhFelPzY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ACII22</a><br> October 17th, 2022 (tentative)</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> *****************************************************************</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> Workshop website: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Frosielab.ca%2Far4w2022%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cms2871%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C9f64eee6eaf44e177a8908da425b57d5%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C0%7C0%7C637895257323477721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=voHFgXzzMvhoTSuetr3fUwICwJiYOJXZmlLjVMdrSz4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/rosielab.ca/ar4w2022/</a></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>Call for Papers</b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> The main topic of our workshop will be affective robotics for well-being, which aligns strongly with the ACII 2022 main theme of affective computing for mental and physical well-being that invites research work that "utilises Affective Computing to address the negative consequences on mental and physical well-being brought about by the current challenging circumstances".</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> The main objective of this workshop is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to identify and address key challenges for studying affective robotics for well-being and its relevant applications in the lab and in the field. The workshop aims at:</div> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> i) including the advances in affective computing and machine learning into social robotics context;</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> ii) investigating the crucial topic of well-being in clinical and non-clinical contexts during a post-pandemic era; and</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> iii) advancing the field of affective computing applied to social robotics focusing on open challenges.</div> </blockquote> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> We invite authors to submit their contributions either as regular paper (6-8 pages long) or position papers (2-4 pages long), using the format provided by ACII (<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facii-conf.net%2F2022%2Fcalls%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cms2871%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C9f64eee6eaf44e177a8908da425b57d5%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C0%7C0%7C637895257323477721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Xz1JMcPrq%2BYdvw1yALnjZb91yiAK74JTnMouKpW1Kps%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://acii-conf.net/2022/calls/</a>).</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> The full Call for Papers, including instructions for the submissions, can be found on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fmy%2Fconference%3Fconf%3Dar4w&data=05%7C01%7Cms2871%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C9f64eee6eaf44e177a8908da425b57d5%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C0%7C0%7C637895257323477721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wI7dSep5Uk80WxjSjAgzPaAiN%2Bj%2FPqg5n9Tm%2FgVYFck%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EasyChair</a>.</div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>Important dates</b></div> <ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Call for papers deadline: 30th June 2022</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Notification of acceptance: 30th July 2022</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Camera-ready deadline: 15th August 2022</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Workshop day: 17th October 2022</span></font></li></ul> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>List of Topics</b></div> <ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(Multimodal) Affective robotics for well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Affective cognitive architectures</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Socially assistive robots for well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Affective robotic design for well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">User studies for well-being (both in lab and field)</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Affective and social adaptation and personalization for well-being applications</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Machine learning for well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Concept papers on affective robotics for well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Methods to measure well-being</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ethics, privacy, ata security and responsible innovation considerations</span></font></li></ul> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>Organizing committee</b></div> <ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Micol Spitale, University of Cambridge</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Angelica Lim, Simon Fraser University</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Katie Winkle, Uppsala University</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge</span></font></li></ul> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>Special Issue</b><br> We are guest editing a Special Issue as part of the International Journal of Social Robotics entitled ‘<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fjournal%2F12369%2Fupdates%2F20296154&data=05%7C01%7Cms2871%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C9f64eee6eaf44e177a8908da425b57d5%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C0%7C0%7C637895257323477721%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=mRR9BQ%2BKQ3eQbMx8EeiHnidUsgBCkw3rAC%2F73cD9lig%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Embodied Agents for Wellbeing’</a>. Selected papers from the workshop submissions will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to this special issue. Submissions to the special issue will undergo a peer review process as per the International Journal of Social Robotics guidelines. </div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b><br> </b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>Contact</b></div> <div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> All questions about submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:ms2871@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ms2871@cam.ac.uk</a> </div> <p><br> </p> <div id="Signature"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;"> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:16px">-----------------</span><br> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:16px">Dr. Katie Winkle</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:16px"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">Assistant Professor</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Uppsala Social Robotics Lab</span></p> <div><a href="https://usr-lab.github.io/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPNoLP">https://usr-lab.github.io/</a></div> <div>Department of Information Technology</div> <div>Uppsala University</div> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <!DOCTYPE html> <title>Page Title</title> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. 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