[robocup-legged] CFP: Human-robot interaction 2008 - Warning of no extensions

[Takayuki Kanda]

Dear colleagues,

Let us remind you that only 10 days remain for submissions for HRI2008.
The submission deadline is firm and will NOT be extended. Please be
sure to make your submissions before the deadline of 10 September 2007
at 11:59pm EDT (11 September 2007 at 3:59am UTC).

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

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Call For Paper : 
2008 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 08) 
http://www.hri2008.org 
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Dear colleagues,

The organizing committee of the 2008 ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Human Robot  
Interaction (HRI 2008) is pleased to invite your participation. The
conference will take  
place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on the 12-15 of March, 2008. This year's
theme is  
"Living With Robots," but contributions are encouraged in a wide range of
topics related to  
people's interaction with robots.  Submissions are encouraged for papers,
videos and  
tutorial workshop proposals.  The submission deadline is 10 September 2007.
Please note that  
this is a firm deadline and will not be extended.

Three outstanding individuals will be giving invited talks at the
conference.
They are: 
- Professor Harold Bekkering, Nijmegen Institue for Cognition and
Information 
- Professor Raja Chatila, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique 
- Professor Herbert Clark, Stanford University 

Papers on all aspects of human-robot interaction are welcome, including -
but not limited to  
- the following topics:
- Socially intelligent robots
- Robot companions
- Lifelike robots
- Assistive (health & personal care) robotics
- Remote robots
- Mixed initiative interaction
- Multi-modal interaction
- Long-term interaction with robots
- Awareness and monitoring of humans
- Task allocation and coordination
- Autonomy and trust
- Robot-team learning User studies of HRI
- Experiments on HRI collaboration
- Ethnography and field studies
- HRI software architectures
- HRI foundations
- Metrics for teamwork
- HRI group dynamics
- Individual vs. group HRI
- Robot intermediaries
- Risks such as privacy or safety
- Ethical issues of HRI
- Organizational/society impact

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.hri2008.org. If
you have  
questions or concerns, please email hri2008 at hri2008.org.

Sincerely,

The HRI 2008 Publicity Committee:
Takayuki Kanda, ATR
Vanessa Evers, University of Amsterdam
Geb Thomas, the University of Iowa