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Call for Position Statements<br>
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HRI 2014: full-day workshop on<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Socially assistive robots for the aging population: <br>
Are we trapped in stereotypes?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; "><a href="http://workshops.acin.tuwien.ac.at/HRI2014_Elderly/index.html">http://workshops.acin.tuwien.ac.at/HRI2014_Elderly/index.html</a></span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br>
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03 March 2014, Bielefeld, Germany<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Robots caring for the older population in care facilities and at home is an ongoing theme in HRI research. Research projects on this topic exist all over the globe
in the USA, Europe, and Asia. All of these projects have the overall ambitious goal to increase the well-being of older adults and to enable them to stay at home as long as possible. However, the recent Special Eurobarometer 382 on “Public attitudes towards
robots” revealed that the wider public does not want robots to take care of the older population (even if the wording of the question was questionable), subsequently in this workshop we want to reflect whether the HRI community is trapped in stereotypes when
it comes to socially assistive robots for older adults. Therefore we want to gather and compare findings from user needs analysis, user evaluation studies, as well as interaction scenarios and functionalities of existing care robots. Are our results suggesting
similar scenarios? Do older end users in all countries have similar needs and desires when it comes to assistive robots? What are the challenges and opportunities for future assistive robots (maybe for those we develop for ourselves when we belong to the older
population…) also on an ethical and legal level? In this workshop we want to escape the stereotype trap what socially assistive robots should do. Can socially assistive robots solve the aging population problem on a societal and individual level? Are older
people in general technology opponents? Will robotic helpers be accepted in the home as long as they pretend to be social actors?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Submissions<br>
</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Workshop candidates are requested to send a position statement (no longer than 4 A4 pages, min 800 words) before 10th of January about a research on HRI and the aging population
to <a href="mailto:astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at">astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; ">Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Identified
user needs and desires of older adults at home and in care facilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Requirements
and constraints of socially assistive robots for older adults<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Functionalities
and interaction scenarios of socially assistive robots for older adults<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Moral
accountability and legal issues of care robots for the aging population<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">All position papers must be submitted in PDF format and conform to conference proceedings specifications for Late Breaking Reports </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">and include
author names. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Participants will be selected on the basis of the relevance and comparability/ generalizability of their work. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Authors
should send their papers to <a href="mailto:astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at">astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at</a><br>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; ">Important Dates<br>
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">10
January 2014, Position paper submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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January 2014, Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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March 2014, Workshop at HRI 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Organizing Committee</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Astrid Weiss (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Jenay Beer (University of South California, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Takanori Shibata ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Markus Vincze (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)</span></li></ul>
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