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DRAFT PROGRAMME IS NOW AVAILABLE****
Kerstin
Dautenhahn, René te Boekhorst (Adaptive Systems Research Group, The University
of Hertfordshire, UK)
A
two-day symposium running on 14 and 15 April 2005 as part of the AISB 2005 Convention, 12-15 April
2005. The convention will comprise a number of symposia related to the theme
of Social
Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents. The
convention will be hosted by the Adaptive
Systems Research Group at University of Hertfordshire, on behalf of The
Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of
Behaviour (SSAISB) which is the largest
Artificial Intelligence Society in the United Kingdom.
University
of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI) is a growing and increasingly popular research area at the
intersection of research field such as robotics, psychology, ethology and
cognitive science. Robots moving out of
laboratory and manufacturing environments face hard problems of
perception, action and cognition. Application areas that heavily involve human
contact are a particularly challenging domain. Interaction and communication of
embodied physical robots with humans is multimodal, and involves deep issues of
social intelligence and interaction that have traditionally been studied e.g.
in psychology. The design of a robot’s behaviour, appearance, and cognitive and
social skills is highly challenging, and requires interdisciplinary
collaborations across the traditional boundaries of established disciplines. It
addresses deep issues into the nature of human social intelligence, as well as
sensitive ethical issues in domains where robots are interacting with
vulnerable people (e.g. children, elderly, people with special needs).
Assuming
that the future will indeed give us a variety of different robots that inhabit
our homes, it is at present not quite clear what roles the robots will adopt.
Will they be effective machines performing tasks on our behalf, assistants,
companions, or even friends? What social skills are desirable and necessary for
such robots? People have often used technology very differently from what the
designers originally envisaged, so the development of robots designed to
interact with people requires a careful analysis and study of how people
interact with robots and what roles a new generation of robot companions should
adopt.
The
symposium will present state-of-the-art in the field of HRI, focussing on hard
problems and open challenges involved in studying ‘robot companions’. The
symposium will consist of invited talks
as well as regular presentations. All contributions will be reviewed by the
programme committee, presenters (talks and posters) will have contributions in
the AISB proceedings. The authors of the best technical papers will be
encouraged to submit to a special section/issue of an international journal.
• Design of social robots for HRI
research
• Requirement for socially interactive
robots for HRI research
• Cognitive skills for robot companions
• Evaluation methods in HRI research
• Ethical issues in HRI research
• Creating relationships with social
robots
• Developmental aspects of human-robot
interaction
• Roles of robots in the home
• others
Christoph
Bartneck (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Aude
Billard (EPFL, Switzerland)
Guido
Bugmann (University of Plymouth, UK)
Henrik
I. Christensen (KTH, Sweden)
Takayuki
Kanda (ATR Intelligent Robotics - Communication Labs, Japan)
Gerhard
Sagerer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Takanori
Shibata (AIST, Japan)
14th April 2005, Thursday
8.30-9.00 Coffee
9.00-10.0
Plenary talk III: Hiroshi Ishiguro: From
inter-personal to social relationships with robots - Studies on interactive
humanoids and androids
10.00-10.30 Coffee & walking to session rooms
10.30-12.30 Session (2 hours): Challenges in Embodied Interaction
10.30-10.40 Introduction (Kerstin Dautenhahn)
10.40-11.20 Invited talk: Embodied social interaction with robots, Henrik I. Christensen (KTH, Sweden)
11.20-12.00 Invited talk: Bringing it all together:
Integration to study embodied interaction with a robot companion, Gerhard
Sagerer, Jannik Fritsch, Britta Wrede (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
12.00-12.30 Discussion of Session + poster spotlights (one minute for each poster presenter – one overhead transparency)
12.30-1.45 Lunch & Posters (in parallel SSAISB AGM meeting)
1.45-2.45 Plenary talk IV:
Alison Jolly: Social Intelligence in Primates and Primatologists Session (1.5 hours): The Human Perspective in Social Robotics
Walking to session rooms
2.55-4.25 Session (1.5 hours): The Human Perspective in Social Robotics
2.55-3.25 Do we need social robots? Challenges of a human-centred perspective, Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
3.25-3.45 Coping strategies and technology in later life, M. V. Giuliani, M. Scopelliti, F. Fornara (ISTC-CNR & University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)
3.45-4.05 Ontological and anthropological dimensions of social robotics, Jutta Weber (University of Vienna, Austria)
4.05-4.25 Discussion of Session
4.25-4.45 Coffee
4.45– 6.45 Session (2 hours): Robots in Assistive Technology
4.45-5.25 Invited talk: Human Interactive Robot for Psychological Enrichment and Therapy, Takanori Shibata, Kazuyoshi Wada, Tomoko Saito, Kazuo Tanie (AIST, Japan)
5.25-5.45 My Gym robot, P. Marti, T. Shibata, F. Fano, V. Palma, A. Pollini, A. Rullo (University of Siena, Italy & AIST, Japan)
5.45-6.05 Robots
as Isolators or Mediators for Children with Autism? – A Cautionary Tale, B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, J. Dubowski (Univ.
Hertfordshire & Univ. Surrey Roehampton, UK)
6.05-6.25 “Robotic rich” environments for supporting elderly people at home: the RobotCare experience, A. Cesta, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi, R. Leone, D. Nardi, F. Pecora, R. Rasconi (Universita di Roma “La Sapienza” & Italian National Research Council, Italy)
6.25-6.45 Discussion of Session
7.30-10.00 Excursion with dinner (optional)
15th April 2005, Friday
8.30-9.00 Coffee
9.00-10.00 Plenary
talk V: Luc Steels: Stages and challenges in evolving language-like
communication for robotic agents
10.00-10.30 Coffee & walking to session rooms
10.30-12.30 Session (2 hours): Human-Robot Interfaces
10.30-11.10 Invited talk: Communication robots for elementary schools, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro (ATR, Japan)
11.10-11.50 Invited talk: Effective spoken interfaces to service robots: Open problems, Guido Bugmann (University of Plymouth, UK)
11.50-12.10 Evaluation criteria for human robot interaction, Catherina Burghart, Roger Haeussling (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
12.10-12.30 Discussion of Session
12.30-1.45 Lunch & Posters
1.45-3.45 Session (2 hours): Attitudes and Perspectives on Robot Design
1.45-2.25 Invited talk: Cultural differences in attitudes towards robots, C. Bartneck, T. Nomura, T. Kanda, T. Suzuki, K. Kato (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands & Ryukoku University & ATR & Toyo University & Osaka University, Japan)
2.25-3.05 Invited talk: Challenges in designing the body and the mind of an interactive robot, Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland)
3.05-3.25 Child and adults’ perspectives on robot appearance, S. Woods, K. Dautenhahn, J. Schulz (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
3.25-3.45 Discussion of Session
3.45-4.15 Coffee
4.15-5.45 Sessions (1.5 hours)
4.15-4.35 Alternative model-building for the study of socially interactive robots, M. Beynon, A. Harfield, S. Chang (University of Warwick UK)
4.35-4.50 Practical and Methodological Challenges in Designing and Conducting Interaction Studies with Human Subjects, M. Walters, Sarah Woods, K. L. Koay, K. Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
4.50-5.10 Discussion of Session
5.10-5.45 Panel and Final Discussion
End of Symposium
Poster
presentations
**Ethical issues in human-robot interaction
Blay Whitby (University of Sussex, UK)
**The necessity of enforcing multidisciplinary research and development of embodied socially intelligent agents
Julie Hillan (University of Washington, USA)
**Human-robot interaction experiments: Lessons learnt
Cory D. Kidd, Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media
Lab, USA)
You
can register for the symposium as part of the AISB’05 convention
registration. The 31 January 2005 is the early registration deadline. See
the AISB’05
webpage for other related symposia running during the first half of the
convention.
Please
send PDF versions of extended abstracts (2-4 pages maximum) by 31 October 2004
to “K.Dautenhahn AT herts.ac.uk” AND “R.teBoekhorst AT herts.ac.uk”.
Submissions
reporting on innovative HRI experiments and implementations are particularly
encouraged. Conceptual papers, reviews,
project overviews, or discussion papers identifying innovative
approaches/perspectives in the area of HRI are also welcome (please identify
clearly in your submission the nature of the paper).
Please
send a PDF version to “K.Dautenhahn AT
herts.ac.uk”. Additionally, please send a hardcopy to the following address:
Prof.
K. Dautenhahn (AISB-HRI)
School
of Computer Science
University
of Hertfordshire
College
Lane
Hatfield,
Herts, AL10 9AB
United
Kingdom
PDF
file and hardcopy must arrive by 14 January 2005.
Formatting
instructions for the camera-ready copies of accepted papers can be found on the
AISB’05 webpage.
• Christoph Bartneck (Eindhoven
University of Technology The Netherlands)
• Rene te Boekhorst (Adaptive Systems
Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)
• Henrik I. Christensen (KTH, Sweden)
• Guido Bugmann (University of Plymouth,
UK)
• Kerstin Dautenhahn (Adaptive Systems
Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)
• Takayuki Kanda (ATR Intelligent
Robotics - Communication Labs, Japan)
• Tatsuya Nomura (Ryukoku University,
Japan)
• Gerhard Sagerer (University of
Bielefeld, Germany)
• Takanori Shibata (AIST, Japan)
**31
October 2004: Submissions due
**22
November 2004: Notification deadline
**14
January 2005: camera ready copies due
(PDF and hardcopy)
**31
January 2005: early registration deadline
**12-15
April 2005: AISB 2005 convention