[iva] [CFP] Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and Technologies (SSA) at RO-MAN 2022

[Yukiko Nakano]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*



**Apologies for cross-posting**



Workshop on Symbiotic Society with Avatars: Social Acceptance, Ethics, and
Technologies (SSA)

In conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and
Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

https://www.asedc.org/RO-MAN2022_SSA_workshop



Workshop date: September 2, 2022

Half day (morning session) workshop in hybrid format



*1. Statement of objectives*

Although COVID-19 pandemic caused many problems in the society, new
technologies emerged to overcome the difficulties. One aspect is
communication. Using a telepresence robot, people can exist in a distant
physical space and meet other people there. In a metaverse environment, the
user is represented as a virtual character. In both cases, the user is
represented as an avatar (an alter ego), and communicates with other people
in a given space by controlling the avatar remotely. Moreover, avatars can
be semi-autonomous by incorporating artificial intelligence technologies.
By using such avatars, people can extend their physical, cognitive, and
perceptual capabilities. People are able to be free from the constraints of
time and space. Therefore, avatar technologies may impact human life, and
it is indispensable to discuss what technologies are necessary to realize
avatars that are well accepted in the society as well as ethical and legal
issues, while envisioning a future symbiotic society in which people
communicate with other people's avatars.

This workshop aims to provide an opportunity that researchers in
communication robot, avatar, psychology, ethics, and law come together and
discuss the issues to realize a symbiotic society with avatars.



*2. Call for Position Papers*

We will elicit position papers that propose ideas, questions, and research
results, which contribute to fruitful discussions at the workshop. The
position papers will be presented as a poster. Paper length should be 1
page (excluding reference) in the RO-MAN 2022 format: RO-MAN Papers
Templates (http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/call-for-papers). Please
submit your paper to the EasyChair submission site: Paper submission (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa2022).



*3. List of topics*

The list of topics is as follows (but not limited to).

*Social relationship and communication*

- Issues on accepting a symbiotic society with social robots

- Social relationship in human-robot communication

- Dependence on avatars in social communication

- Social rapport in human-robot communication

- User identity in communicating through telepresence robots (gender, age,
personality, culture)

*Ethical and moral issues*

- Moral aspects in human-robot communication

- Lack of morality in human-robot communication (robot abuse)

- Robot mal-use by tele-operators (abuse, harassment, etc.)

- Privacy in human-robot communication

- Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impacts on users interacting with
social robots

*Technologies towards socially well-accepted avatars*

- Technologies for reducing and preventing robot mal-use

- Moral computing

- Developing social robots with ethical consciousness

- Technologies for protecting user privacy in using social robots

- Platforms and specifications for socially well-accepted robots



*4. Important Dates*

Paper submission: July 17, 2022

Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2022

Camera ready: August 8, 2022

Workshop: September 2, 2022



*5. Organizers*

Yukiko Nakano (Seikei University, Japan) contact: y.nakano[at]
st.seikei.ac.jp

Takayuki Kanda (Kyoto University, Japan)

Minao Kukita (Nagoya University, Japan)

Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University & The Advanced Telecommunications
Research Institute (ATR), Japan)
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