[robocup-legged] HRI08 Workshop: Coding Behavioral Video Data and Reasoning Data in Human-Robot Interaction: Call for submission

[Takayuki Kanda]

Dear colleagues,

A following workshop will be held at HRI'08 conference.
The submission deadline (for Presenters) is December 14, 2007.
We are pleased to invite your participation!

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Workshop for HRI '08 (http://www.hri2008.org)
Title: Coding Behavioral Video Data and Reasoning Data in Human-Robot
Interaction
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Purpose: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together HRI researchers
and designers from across the world who are actively engaged - or would like
to be - in coding behavioral and/or reasoning data in HRI.  We'll share
methods from our respective laboratories, and discuss problems encountered
and potential solutions.  By the end of the workshop:
*       Participants will understand different approaches toward
constructing coding systems.
*       Participants will be positioned better to analyze their own HRI
data.
*       We will have begun to establish a community of researchers and
designers who can share related ideas with one another in the years to come.
*       We will move forward with publishing proceedings from the workshop.

Deadline for Submission (for Presenters): December 14, 2007

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Organizers
Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
University of Washington, USA

Takayuki Kanda
Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR), Japan

Nathan G. Freier
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Rachel L. Severson
University of Washington, USA

Hiroshi Ishiguro
Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) and Osaka University, Japan
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Overview
As the field of human-robot interaction begins to mature, researchers and
designers are recognizing the need for systematic, comprehensive, and
theoretically-grounded methodologies for investigating people's social
interactions with robots.  One attractive approach entails the collection of
behavioral video data in naturalistic or experimental settings.  Another
attractive approach entails interviewing participants about their
conceptions of human-robot interaction (e.g., during or immediately
following an interaction with a specific robot).  With behavioral video data
and/or reasoning data in hand, the question then emerges: How does one code
and analyze such data?

The workshop is divided into two main parts.

Morning.  Our collaborative laboratories (from the University of Washington
and ATR) will share in some depth the coding system we have developed for
coding 90 children's social and moral behavior with and reasoning about a
humanoid robot (ATR's Robovie).  This coding manual builds from other
systems we have developed and disseminated elsewhere as technical reports
(Friedman, et al, 2005; Kahn et al., 2003, 2005, 2005).  Key issues
presented in the morning include:
*       What is a Coding Manual?
*       Getting Started - Iterating between Data and Theory
*       Building on Previous Systems, when Applicable
*       Hierarchical Organization of Categories
*       Time Segmentation of Behavior
*       Behavior in Response to Robot-Initiated and Experimenter-Initiated
Stimulus
*       Coding Social and Moral Reasoning
*       How to Deal with Multiple Ways of Coding a Single Behavioral Event
or Reason
*       Reliability Coding
We'll have plenty of time for discussion of issues as they emerge.

Afternoon:  Following a group lunch, we'll then have up to 5 participants
present for 20 minutes each (followed by 20 minutes of discussion after each
presentation).  Presenters will provide a brief overview of one of their HRI
research projects (hopefully with some video data or interview data in
hand), and then explicate three problems they encountered in coding the
data, and then (if at all) how they sought to solve the problems.  The 20
minute discussion periods will provide time for participants to discuss the
nature of the problems and other possible solution strategies.

Two Types of Participation
There will be two types of participation:

5 Presenters (in addition to the 5 organizers):  Presenters will be actively
involved in HRI research that involves behavioral and/or reasoning data.  As
noted above, each presenter will have 20 minutes to present an overview of
one of their HRI research projects, and to present three problems
encountered and possible solutions.

Other Workshop Participants:  Participants will join in the workshop and
participate in discussions.  The prerequisite is simply an interest in the
topic.

Submission Guidelines
As noted above, there will be two types of participation: (1) workshop
presenters, and (2) workshop participants.  Submission guidelines differ
depending on your interests in participating:

(1) Workshop Presenter:  Send a one-page single-spaced summary of your HRI
research project, and three possible coding problems encountered and
possible solutions.  Indicate whether you anticipate having some actual data
to share (video clips or interview transcripts) that illustrate your issues
at hand.  Include an additional paragraph that summarizes your background in
HRI.  These submissions will be peer-reviewed.  The deadline for submission
is December 14, 2007.

(2) Workshop Participant:  Send a one-paragraph summary of your background
in HRI and interest in the workshop.  Participants will be accepted on a
first-come-first-admitted basis.

The workshop will take place March 12, 2008, at the HRI '08 conference site,
the beautiful Felix Meritis cultural center in central Amsterdam.

Workshop Proceedings
We plan to publish proceedings of the workshop in the form of a technical
report.  At this junction, the technical report will include the full coding
system for the UW-ATR study on Children's Social and Moral Relationships
with a Humanoid Robot.  We would also like to include full coding systems
from the other 5 presenters in the workshop.  Together, then, we would have
created a vibrant initial repository of coding systems for other researchers
to draw upon.  However, if not all of the presenters have full systems, then
we will include a written version of their summary of their project and
their 3 problems and solutions presented during the workshop.


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Biographical Sketches and Contact Information of Organizers:

Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Associate
Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.  He
received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.  His
publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development,
Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Journal of Systems
Software, as well as in such proceedings as CHI, Ubicomp, and Ro-Man.  His
1999 book (MIT Press) is titled The Human Relationship with Nature:
Development and Culture.  His research projects - funded by the National
Science Foundation - focus on human interaction with nature and
technological systems, including (a) social and moral relationships with
personified robots, and (b) the psychological effects of digitized natural
information.

Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206-616-9395
pkahn at u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/pkahn/


Takayuki Kanda
is Senior Researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication
Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.  He received his Ph.D. in computer science from
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2003.  His publications have appeared in
such journals as Autonomous Robots, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Robotics, and Human-Computer interaction, as well as in such
proceedings as IJCAI, ICRA, IROS, HRI, Humanoids, and Ro-Man.  His current
research interests include intelligent robotics and human-robot interaction.

Takayuki Kanda
Senior research scientist
ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs.
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seikacho, Sorakugun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
Tel: +81 774 95 1424
Fax: +81 774 95 1408
kanda at atr.jp
http://www.irc.atr.jp/~kanda/



Nathan G. Freier
is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He received
his Ph.D. in Information Science from the Information School at the
University of Washington.  His research focuses on children's social and
moral interactions with personified technologies, including graphical
avatars and social robots.  One of his questions is how to use such
psychological findings to improve from an ethical standpoint the design of
technology.

Nathan G. Freier
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St., Sage 4508
Troy, NY 12180-3590
518-276-6467
freien at rpi.edu
http://www.rpi.edu/~freien


Rachel L. Severson
is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology at the University of
Washington.  Her research focuses on children's conceptions of "other",
whether the other is biological (e.g., animal or human) or computational
(e.g., robotic).  One of her questions is whether new ontological categories
are emerging for Homo sapiens that move beyond long-standing canonical
categories (e.g., between animate and inanimate).

Rachel L. Severson
Department of Psychology
Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206-616-6986
raches at u.washington.edu
http://staff.washington.edu/raches


Hiroshi Ishiguro
is Professor in the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka
University and Visiting Group Leader at ATR, Japan.  He received his B.Eng.
and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Yamanashi University, Japan in 1986 and
1988, respectively, and his D.Eng in Systems Engineering from Osaka
University, Japan in 1991.  His research interests include distributed
vision systems, robotics, and android science.

Hiroshi Ishiguro
Department of Adaptive Machine Systems
Osaka University
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita
Osaka 565-0871 Japan
ishiguro at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp