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IROS 2016 Workshop on <b>*Artistically Skilled Robots*</b><br>
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<b>*Second call for papers*</b><br>
<br>
We kindly invite you to submit your contributions to the Workshop on
Artistically Skilled Robots to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, on
Oct. 10, 2016.<br>
The event is attached to the IEEE/RSJ IROS conference which runs
Oct. 11-13.<br>
<br>
The goal of the workshop is to discuss the state of the art and the
future of artistic applications in robotics. This is a maturing, but
still novel area of R&D in robotics, which involves modeling and
understanding a complex and multifaceted human behaviour that
includes: (i) perceptual abilities, (ii) generative abilities, (iii)
creativity, (iv) reflective abilities, (v) pedagogical abilities,
and (vi) social skills. The workshop will concentrate on
developments in robotic systems that can have the capacity to
understand artistic styles through practice, to simulate the human
art creation process, to produce artworks with a given style, and
further explore and develop novel styles, alone or in collaboration
with other robots or humans. The proposed theme also involves to
jointly deepen our understanding of human creativity, while
advancing robotic systems capable of producing and evaluating
distinctive artistic styles, and having the capacity to interact
with the world through embodied creative actions.<br>
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The workshop will discuss (but is not limited to) visual art
practice, including sketching, painting, calligraphy, sculpting and
novel forms of digital fabrication (e.g. ceramics, additive
manufacturing). Arts provide a testbed for the embodiment of complex
skills in robots, such as natural gestures and complex interactions
with the environment and humans. This interdisciplinary topic of
research is at the crossroad of Robot Control, Movement Science,
A.I./Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, the
Visual Arts, Psychology and Neuroscience. <br>
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Topics of interest include:<br>
<ul>
<li>Robotic creativity</li>
<li>Embodied A.I.</li>
<li>Creative agents</li>
<li>Human/artist robot collaboration</li>
<li>Natural movement generation in robots</li>
<li>Transfer of artistic skills to robots</li>
<li>Public perception of robotic generated art</li>
<li>Understanding/study of human artistic skills via robots</li>
<li>Robot manipulation of artistic tools/media</li>
</ul>
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<b>*Invited speakers*</b> <br>
<ul>
<li><span class="external-link">Kendra Byrne</span>, X, Google,
USA (previous: Google Robotics, Bot&Dolly, Intel)</li>
<li><span class="external-link">Katsushi</span><span
class="external-link"> Ikeuchi</span>, Microsoft Research
Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan</li>
<li><span class="external-link">Ajay</span><span
class="external-link"> Kapur</span>, <span>California
Institute of the Arts, USA</span></li>
<li><span><span class="external-link"><span></span></span><span
class="external-link">Seiichiro Katsura</span></span>, Keio
University, Japan</li>
<li><span><span class="external-link"><span></span></span><span
class="external-link">Heather Knight</span></span>, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA</li>
<li class="external-link" title=""><span class="external-link">Jean-Paul</span><span
class="external-link"> Laumond</span>, LAAS-CNRS, France</li>
<li><span><span class="external-link"><span class="external-link"><span><span></span></span></span></span><span
class="external-link"><span class="external-link">Katsuyoshi
Tsujita<span></span></span></span></span><span>, Osaka <span
class="st">Institute of Technology,</span> Japan</span></li>
</ul>
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<b>*Call for contributions*</b><br>
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Participants are invited to submit a contribution as:<br>
<ul>
<li>Full paper (maximum 6 pages in length)</li>
<li>Extended abstract (maximum 2 pages in length)</li>
</ul>
Selected contributions will be presented during the workshop as
spotlight talks and in a poster and demo session. You may add a demo
video to your submission.<br>
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Submissions must be in PDF following the IEEE conference style in
two-columns. Send your PDF manuscript indicating [IROS 2016] in the
subject, and indicate the URL of your demo video (if available), to
the email: iros[at]creativemachine.org.uk<br>
<br>
The workshop contributions will appear as online proceedings.
Contributors to the workshop will be invited to submit extended
versions of the manuscripts to a special issue (publisher to be
announced, deadline will be in January 2017).<br>
<b><br>
</b><b> *Important dates*</b><br>
<br>
August 15, 2016 - Submission deadline<br>
August 31, 2016 - Notification of acceptance<br>
October 10, 2016 - Workshop<br>
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<b>*Organizers*</b><br>
<br>
Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK<br>
Sylvain Calinon, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland<br>
Daniel Berio, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK<br>
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Dr Sylvain Calinon,
Idiap Research Institute,
Martigny, Switzerland
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://calinon.ch">http://calinon.ch</a></pre>
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