[iva] [cfp] [meetings] IEEE RO-MAN 2023 GROUND workshop: "advancing GROup UNderstanding and robots' aDaptive behavior"

[Ana Tanevska]

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CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE RO-MAN 2023 GROUND workshop
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Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the first edition of the workshop GROUND (advancing GROup UNderstanding and robots' aDaptive behavior) that will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2023) and will be in a hybrid format. The workshop will take place on August 28th, 2023, both in-presence in Busan, South Corea, as well as virtually on Zoom.


=== Important dates ===

Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: July 15th, 2023
Camera Ready: August 5th, 2023

Workshop website: https://ground-workshop.github.io/ground-workshop/


=== Workshop Objectives ===

As social and cognitive robots become increasingly integrated into our daily lives and are introduced into multi-party contexts such as schools, care facilities, and workplaces, it is crucial to ensure that their behavior considers the complex social dynamics present in these scenarios. However, studying group dynamics in HRI entails inherent challenges from both a technical (e.g., tracking multiple users simultaneously) and a theoretical point of view (e.g., modeling multiple agents who dynamically influence each other).

New challenges, therefore, await the HRI community, such as ensuring that social robots can adapt to the needs of individual group members while also considering the group as a whole, susceptible to subtle and hidden social norms and balances. Furthermore, it is crucial that robots do not exhibit biases or unethical behavior in these contexts, eventually leading to negative consequences such as social exclusion. One possible approach to overcome these challenges is through experimental designs based on gamification. This approach can favor an unbiased way of behaving in laboratory experiments, mitigating the Hawthorne effect (i.e., the variations in behavior due to the presence of an observer).

Participants are invited to share innovative strategies for exploring group-robot interactions, with approaches focused on - but not limited to – gamification, providing a fresh and insightful viewpoint to (1) using social robots for understanding group dynamics; (2) designing social agents able to interact with groups. Additionally, the discussion will involve the ethical implications of researching group dynamics, including potential negative outcomes such as biases toward group members.


=== Call for Contributions ===

We encourage the submission of short papers (2-4 pages) presenting innovative strategies for exploring group-robot interactions. The contributions may include work in progress with preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

Understanding group dynamics through the use of social robots.
Designing social robots able to interact with groups.
Gamification in multiparty human-robot interactions.
Promoting natural communication, mutual understanding and trust in human-robot mixed groups.
Exploring different robot’s roles (e.g., peer, teacher, helper or friend) in group interactions.
Interdisciplinary collaborations between roboticists, game designers, psychologists, and sociologists.
Novel experimental designs for conducting group-robot interaction research.
Ethical considerations in researching group dynamics and potential biases or negative consequences.
Adaptation and personalization to groups.
Learning strategies for autonomous behaviors of robots in groups.
Modelling, understanding and predicting group behaviors.


More information about the topics and the call for papers can be found here: https://ground-workshop.github.io/ground-workshop/call

To accommodate the different time zones of attendees, the workshop will be held in a hybrid format and recorded for later viewing.

Should you need more information, we are available to answer all your questions.

We look forward to meeting you at the workshop!

Kind regards,

the GROUND workshop organizers



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Dr. Ana Tanevska (they/them)

Postdoctoral Researcher
Uppsala Social Robotics Lab
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University, Sweden

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