<div dir="ltr"><div>CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font><font size="2">**<span style="font-size:10pt">Apologies for cross posting ** <br><br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">The international full day workshop:<br></span></font><div>
<b><br></b>"<b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Towards Intelligent Social Robots: Social Cognitive Systems in Smart Environments</span></b>"<b><br>
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</b>In conjunction with the <b>26th</b> <b>IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)</b> <b>-</b> <b>Lisbon - Portugal - August 28, 2017<br><br></b></div><div><b>Website: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.intelligent-social-robots-ws.com" target="_blank">www.intelligent-social-robots-<wbr>ws.com</a></span><br></b></div><div><br><font size="2">
</font><b><font size="2">I. Aim and Scope </font><br>
<br></b>A “smart” environment represents the concept of the environment
that incorporates intelligent systems and appliances (e.g., smart home,
smart factory, smart city, etc.) employing heterogeneous devices, such
as: sensors, actuators, cameras, networks, and screens. Within such a
smart environment, robots can take on an important mediating role
between human users and the environment if high-level cognitive
functions and computational intelligence are employed to handle the
uncertainty of the complex environment so as to act appropriately within
different contexts of interaction.<br><br>Using robots in smart
environments opens the door to several socio-cognitive applications,
such as: reducing cognitive load for individuals interacting with a
smart environment, assisting the elderly and people with cognitive
disabilities in mobility and daily tasks (which requires robots to learn
the multimodal characteristics of human behavior and to spatially
perceive the environment containing other smart objects so as to decide
the best way to employ/manipulate them in order to successfully perform
tasks), and developing a cloud-connected robot system to incrementally
share knowledge between robots in different smart environments about the
behavioral characteristics of human users in order to interact with
them adaptively. To meet the requirements of these target applications,
robots need to be able to learn how to use the capabilities of their
smart environments so as to best address the needs of the human
co-inhabitants.<br><br>This workshop aims to shed light on the
intersection between cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and
robotics research both from the theoretical and technical perspectives
covering basic research and applications. Recent advances and possible
avenues for future research in the field of “smart” robotics are
principal topics of discussion during the workshop.<br>
<br><b>II. Keynote Speakers
<br></b><ol><li><b> </b><b>Alessandro Saffiotti </b>– University of Orebro – Sweden</li><li> <b>Friederike Eyssel </b>–<b> </b>Bielefeld University – Germany
</li><li> <b>Fulvio Mastrogiovanni </b>– University of Genoa – Italy</li><li><b> Komei Sugiura </b>–<b> </b>National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) – Japan <b><br></b></li></ol>
<b><font size="2">III. Submission </font></b><br><ol><li>For paper submission, use the following EasyChair web link: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icogrob2017" target="_blank">Paper Submission</a></b></span>.</li><li>Use the IEEE style (two-column format – US letter): <b><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">IEEE Templates</a></b>.</li><li>Submitted papers should be limited to 3-6 pages maximum.</li></ol><p> The primary list of topics covers the following points (but not limited to):</p><ul><li>Social robotics</li><li>Multimodal human robot interaction</li><li>Cognitive modeling of human behavior</li><li>Cognitive architectures and strategies for intelligent interaction with the environment</li><li>AI and machine learning approaches applied to human-robot-environment interaction</li><li>Cloud robotics</li><li>Ambient assisted living <br></li><li>Ubiquitous computing <br></li><li>Natural user interface design <br></li><li>Internet of things<br></li></ul><b>
<font size="2">IV. Important Dates</font></b><br><ol><li>Paper submission: <b>19-June-2017</b></li><li>Notification of acceptance: <b>10-July-2017</b></li><li>Camera-ready version: <b>24-July-2017</b></li><li>Workshop: <b>28-August-2017</b><br></li></ol><b>V. Organizers <br></b><ol><li><b> </b><b>Amir Aly </b>– Ritsumeikan University – Japan<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma;font-size:17.5px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><br></span></li><li> <b>Sascha Griffiths </b>– Hamburg University – Germany</li><li> <b>Verena Nitsch </b>– Bundeswehr University – Germany</li><li><b> Tadahiro Taniguchi </b>– Ritsumeikan University – Japan</li><li><b> Stefan Wermter </b>– Hamburg University – Germany</li><li><b> Adriana Tapus </b>– ENSTA ParisTech – France <br></li></ol></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span>-----<b><br>Amir Aly, Ph.D.</b><br></span></font><font size="2"><span>Senior Researcher</span></font><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><br></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span>Emergent Systems Laboratory</span></font><br><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span></span></font></span></span></font></span>College of Information Science and Engineering</span></font><br><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span>Ritsumeikan University<br></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span>1-1-1 Noji Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577<br>Japan</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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