[iva] [iva-lists][Meetings] Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces at HRI2022

[Sebastian Schneider]

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: 
https://sites.google.com/view/hripublicspaces2022

*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

-- 
Dr. Sebastian Schneider
Cologne Cobots Lab
Faculty of Process Engineering, Energy and Mechanical Systems
Institute of Product Development and Engineering Design
Technische Hochschule Köln
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