[Amdnl] Deadline extension: HRI 2014 Workshop on HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience

Sat Jan 11 10:38:38 EST 2014

Dear Yukie,
here I attach my Abstract for the workshop.
Please send me the Format to fill and I will transpose it on the regular
format.
My thanks and regards.
Alberto Rovetta

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        POLITECNICO DI MILANO

DIPARTIMENTO DI MECCANICA

*New perspective with emotional control of an intelligent mobile robotic
platform Locobot with neurological basis*

*The neurology of intelligent robotics has become pervasive in the years
1990-2000 , and led to the emergence of Biorobotics , which , as indicated
by the report of the UN in 2001, has become a key issue for the
biomechanics and bioengineering . The human brain structure is complex and
not copyable by modern computer, although theoretically every possibility
seems open .*

*The neurology pursues a more exact science and determined, both for humans
and for animals, and can be a reference.*

*In July 1992, Prof. John Eccles , Nobel Prize for Medicine, the visit to
the Robotics Laboratory at Politecnico di Milano , launched the commitment
and the challenge of achieving no more than the usual robot controlled by a
control computer, but the contrary to interpret the signals as human
neurological operating model to act on robotic systems in a natural way .
In practice, rebuild some way mechatronics operational schemes and
transferring it to the human robot.*

*Today, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano
has performed the intelligent platform “POLIMI Intelligent Platform for
Locobot," which was selected  on May 4, 2013 as an example of great
European project in the Open Doors Day in Brussels for the European Union .*

*Locobot is a Low Cost Robot intended to act in interaction with humans,
taking into account the latest secure dictates of psychology that shows how
the humanoid appearance is very disturbing for the workers and the people
in general, especially in unfamiliar environments, and go avoided. The
intelligent platform uses the results of the neurology of language (see
bibliography and studies with Prof. Pinelli) according to the most valid
experiments and dates back to the emotions expressed by words, to interact
with the robot.*

*This paper reports the integrated activities between neurology and
neurobiology theoretical skills that are part of the Robotics Laboratory of
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with the principles of operation
and the operational activity of Locobot.*

*Sensory integration also provides the emotional participation in the
presence of the operator. Among intelligent robotic platform and the human
operator is established operational co-operation, adaptable to human
behavior, which allows a great deal of safety operations and positive
elements of improving the quality of work.*

*The neurological aspects are also linked to the formation of words and the
expression of speech, which are partly physiological partly neurological,
which are suitable for the detection of emotional speech to control a
"human" robot intelligent and sensitive.*

*Alberto Rovetta*

*Prof. Ing. Alberto Rovetta - Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di
Meccanica – Via La Masa 1, 20156  Milano (Italy)  email
**alberto.rovetta at polimi.it
<alberto.rovetta at polimi.it>*   *Tel. **+39-02-2399.8407
<%2B39-02-2399.8407>**; gsm **+39-335-463866 <%2B39-335-463866>** skype
rovettaalbi*

2014/1/10 Yukie Nagai <yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp>

> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> Due to several requests, we have extended the submission deadline to
> January 20th.
>
> ==============================================================
> Workshop “HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience”, at HRI 2014,
> Bielefeld, DE
> ==============================================================
> Workshop: March 3, 2014
> Submission deadline: January 20, 2014 (extended)
> Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014
> Website: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~kl360/HRI2014W/
> ==============================================================
>
> INVITED SPEAKERS
> ---------------
>
> - Prof. Malinda Carpenter, University of St Andrews on research leave at
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
> - Prof. Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology
> - Prof. Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology
> - Prof. Brian Scassellati, Yale University
>
> A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural
> social skills to the interaction with a robot. At the same time,
> neuroscience and psychology are still investigating the mechanisms
> behind the development of human-human interaction. HRI becomes therefore
> an ideal contact point for these different disciplines, as the robot can
> join these two research streams by serving different roles. From a
> robotics perspective, the study of interaction is used to implement
> cognitive architectures and develop cognitive models, which can then be
> tested in real world environments.
>
>  From a neuroscientific perspective, robots could represent an ideal
> stimulus to establish an interaction with human partners in a controlled
> manner and make it possible studying quantitatively the behavioral and
> neural underpinnings of both cognitive and physical interaction.
> Ideally, the integration of these two approaches could lead to a
> positive loop: the implementation of new cognitive architectures may
> raise new interesting questions for neuroscientists, and the behavioral
> and neuroscientific results of the human-robot interaction studies could
> validate or give new inputs for robotics engineers. However, the
> integration of two different disciplines is always difficult, as often
> even similar goals are masked by difference in language or methodologies
> across fields. The aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for
> researchers of different disciplines to discuss and present the possible
> point of contacts, to address the issues and highlight the advantages of
> bridging the two disciplines in the context of the study of interaction.
>
> LIST OF TOPICS
> -------------
>
> - Human Robot Interaction
> - Cognitive Models
> - Development of Social Cognition
> - Neural bases of Interaction
> - Cognitive and Physical Interaction
> - Social Signals
>
> FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
> -----------------------
>
> The workshop will consist of invited keynotes, time for discussions and
> will also feature a poster session.
>
> Prospective participants are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) or
> short papers (2 pages). Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only,
> using the HRI formatting guidelines and including author names. Authors
> should send their papers to hri2014workshop at gmail.com. All submissions
> will be peer-reviewed. Upon available time, selected contributions may
> have the opportunity to be presented in the oral session. The other
> selected contributions will be presented as posters during a dedicated
> session.
>
> Accepted publications will be published on our workshop web page.
> Depending on the overall quality of the contributions, we might consider
> proposing a Special Issue to journal in the near future.
>
> Authors will have the option of opting out from including their reports
> in the website. Information on the opt-out option will be provided along
> with the acceptance notice for the papers.
>
> In addition to the submission  participants have to answer one of the
> following questions:
>
> - Which outcomes should provide neuroscientific research to be useful to
> robotics? And vice versa? Can descriptive results be enough or a
> modelling is necessary for a positive communication to exist?
> - How can robotics research contribute to/influence neuroscience and/or
> psychology? Although there are many robotics studies inspired by
> evidences obtained in neuroscience and/or psychology, the impact of
> robotics on neuroscience or psychology is less evident, especially the
> modelling research. What can roboticists do to cause a paradigm shift?
> - Where the bridge between robotics and neuroscience is more useful, and
> where is it not (or less)? E.g., very useful for social robotics, less
> useful for algorithm design (or not?)
> - How this bridge should be built? At the level of the single individual
> (i.e. a person with multidisciplinary background), at the level of a
> group (i.e., a group of people with different backgrounds), at the level
> of a department (with different labs meeting once in a while) or a mix
> of the previous?
>
> Upon available time, those questions/answers will be used to "drive" a
> final discussion.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
> ----------------
>
> Submission deadline: January 20, 2014 (extended)
> Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014
> Workshop at HRI 2014: March 3, 2014
>
> ORGANIZERS
> -----------
>
> - Alessandra Sciutti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
> - Katrin Solveig Lohan, Heriot-Watt University
> - Yukie Nagai, Osaka University
>
>
> --
> Yukie Nagai, Ph.D.
> Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University
> Visiting Researcher, Bielefeld University
> yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
> http://cnr.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yukie/
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-- 
Prof. Eng. Alberto Rovetta, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di
Meccanica  - Via Lamasa 1 - 20156 Milano tel. +39022399.8407 mobile  + 39
335463866  Fax +39 0223998460 email alberto.rovetta at polimi.it website
http://robotica.mecc.polimi.it      skype rovettaalbi
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