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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are excited to announce the <b>DEI HRI 2025</b> workshop, to be held in the afternoon on <b>March 3rd, 2025</b> (3-hour period AM/PM AEST) with the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The goal of the DEI 2025 workshop is to provide a forum to share experiences and research insights on identifying, addressing, and integrating DEI aspects in HRI, including robot design, applications, research methods, and the
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<li>Deadline for Paper Submission: January 27, 2025 (AOE)</li><li>Paper Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2025</li><li>Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: February 17, 2025</li><li>Workshop Date: March 3, 2025 (3-hour period AM/PM AEST)</li></ul>
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<b>All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AOE) time.</b></div>
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<b>Regular Presentation</b> - share experiences and research insights on identifying, addressing, and integrating DEI aspects in HRI, including robot design, applications, research methods, and the community. </div>
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<b>DEI Student Pioneers panel</b> - empower and provide a space for students whose research addresses DEI issues in HRI to engage in community conversations and receive feedback. This opportunity focuses on supporting students in their research and general
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<b>Submission Guidelines</b></div>
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<b>Regular Presentation</b> - We invite authors to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages, excluding references) or short papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references) on a range of topics relevant to these questions and to DEI in HRI in general. Submissions
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<b>DEI Student Pioneers panel </b>- We invite DEI students to submit a short abstract (500 words) describing your research/project. We also welcome submissions from researchers outside the HRI community to learn from other fields of knowledge and form new
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Authors should submit their papers on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=deihri2025).</div>
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Papers should be submitted in PDF format and conform to IEEE Proceedings specifications (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Overleaf users can access the template directly via the following link - https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/ieee-official.</div>
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Submissions will be evaluated according to their fit to the workshop theme, and their adherence to the scientific standards of the discipline of origin. The workshop proceedings will be made publicly available on our website. Paper acceptance requires that
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<b>List of Topics</b></div>
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<li> Accessibility</li><li> Bias in AI/ML algorithms</li><li> Disability and Ableism</li><li> Gender issues</li><li> LGBTQIA+ issues</li><li> Inclusive education</li><li> Intersectional feminism</li><li> Issues of representation</li><li> Neurodiversity</li><li> Race, ethnicity, or religion</li><li> The global south</li></ul>
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