[iva] CFP: RO-MAN 2016 Workshop on Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction

[James Kennedy]

CFP: RO-MAN 2016 Workshop on Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction
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Date: August 31, 2016
Location: Columbia University, New York City.
Website: http://web.media.mit.edu/~haewon/Roman-LTCRI/

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: May 2, 2016
Acceptance notification: May 30, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: June 20, 2016
Workshop: August 31, 2016

ABSTRACT
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This workshop aims to bring researchers from different disciplines together to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities of conducting longitudinal and microgenetic research with children and robots. Because of their potential to assist and entertain children, social robots are increasingly being developed and studied as educational, therapeutic, entertainment, and healthcare companions. As these domains require long-term interactions to achieve desired goals, researchers in the field are faced with the challenge of developing robust and autonomous robots capable of interacting with children over weeks, months, or even years. Such a challenge raises new research problems in the design principles of, evaluation methods for, and algorithmic approaches to child-robot platforms and interaction. These problems need to be addressed across the spectrum of interaction applications and their respective users (e.g., children, caregivers, therapists). Researchers must also address the security and algorithmic challenges in working with sensitive child interaction data.

This full-day workshop will include a series of keynotes, a panel, lightning talks, and poster sessions.  After the workshop, the contributions will be compiled into a booklet along with invited speakers' presentations and discussion summaries, which will be published electronically at the workshop website.

- Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Design of autonomous systems for long-term child-robot interaction
- Design and methodologies for repeated child-robot encounters
- Theories and methods for evaluating long-term child-robot interaction
- Personalization and adaptation algorithms for long-term interaction
- Long-term data collection and analysis
- Designing for caregivers/therapists and others involved in child development
- Challenges and guidelines for long-term child-robot interaction field studies
- Incorporating theories and methods of child behavioral science into the design of long-term child-robot interaction
- Impact of robot technology on children's cognitive and social development
- Evaluation of child-robot novelty and engagement
- Autonomy and transparency in long-term interaction
- Multi-party long-term child-robot interaction
- Long-term user engagement with robots
- Effects of embodiment on long-term interaction
- Affect, social bonding, and learning applied to child-robot interaction
- Robots as educational or instructional agents
- Socially assistive robots for children
- Industrial applications in long-term child-robot interaction
- Child-privacy and ethical issues in long-term robot applications

INVITED SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
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Tony Belpaeme, Plymouth University
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab
Fumihide Tanaka, University of Tsukuba
Jill Lehman, Disney Research
Robin Morris, Georgia State University

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Contributions should be prepared in standard IEEE format between 2-4 pages. Papers may cover research that is in progress or that authors plan to conduct. After the workshop, the contributions will be compiled into a booklet along with invited speakers' presentations and discussion summaries, which will be published electronically at the workshop website.
Templates:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submissions should be made through Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ltcri2016

ORGANIZERS
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Jacqueline M. Kory Westlund (MIT)
Hae Won Park (MIT)
Iolanda Leite (Disney Research)
Chien-Ming Huang (Yale)
James Kennedy (Plymouth University)
Caitlyn Clabaugh (USC)
Elaine Short (USC)
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