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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (ICSR 2014)
Conference Theme: Social Intelligence
http://icsr2014.org
October 27th - 29th, 2014
Sydney Australia
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 18, 2014

The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) brings researchers
and practitioners together to report and discuss advances in the exciting
and emerging field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the
interaction between humans and robots, social knowledge and skills for
robots, robot services, social impact of robots and the integration of
robots into society.

The theme of the 2014 conference is "Social Intelligence". Robots will
improve the quality of human life through assistance, enabling for instance
independent living or providing support in work-intensive, difficult and
complex situations. Fluent interaction and collaboration with people will
require that robots develop social intelligence a critical capacity for
negotiating complex social relationships and environments. The conference
aims to foster discussion on the development of computational models,
robotic embodiments, and behaviour that will enable social robots to
develop sophisticated levels of social intelligence. The conference
welcomes original contributions describing technically rigorous scientific
and philosophical advances in the area of social robotics: Innovative ideas
and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, novel applications of the
latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone
of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as
seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social
impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its interaction and
communication with human beings and its social impact on society.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

   - Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments
   - Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities
   - Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life
   - Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots
   - Personal robots for the home
   - Social acceptance and impact in society
   - Robot ethics in human society and legal implications
   - Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding
   - Control architectures for social robotics
   - Socially appealing design methodologies
   - Safety in robots working in human spaces
   - Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots
   - Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming
   - Knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social
intelligence
   - Cognitive Architectures that support social intelligence for robots
   - Robots in the workplace.
   - Human-Robot Interaction
   - Creative and Entertaining Robots

IMPORTANT DATES
     Special Session Proposal Submission: *15 April 15, 2014*
     Workshop Proposal Submission: *2 May 2014*
     Paper Submission: *18 June 2014*

     Notification of Paper Acceptance: 16 July 2014
     Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 30 July 2014
     Competitions and Exhibitions Submission Deadline: 12 September 2013
     Competitions and Exhibitions Notification of Acceptance: 26 September
2014

INVITED SPEAKERS
    Tony Cohn, Leeds University, UK
    Peter Gardenförs, Lund University, Sweden
    Guy Hoffman, IDC Media Invention Lab
    Oussama Khatib, Stanford University

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer
LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. LNCS style templates are available on the
Springer LNCS website. Full papers are limited to ten A4 size papers,
extended abstracts to two A4 pages. Detailed instructions for paper
submission are available at http://www.icsr2014.org. All papers will be
refereed by the program committee.

PUBLICATION
The papers published in ICSR2014 will appear in a volume of the LNCS/LNAI
series by Springer. The conference's proceedings are indexed by EI
Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library,
and Scopus.

SUBMISSION OF SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
We invited you to arrange a special session in the main Conference Program.
Please send the following information (no more than three pages) to the
conference chair. Session title, description of the topic, a case as to why
this topic is important to social robotics and/or the theme social
intelligence, a list of potential contributors (10 authors who you have
approached and who commit to submitting a high quality paper to the
session).

EXHIBITIONS
Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at
the conference site please prepare 1 page summary describing the
demonstration and email exhibitions at icsr2014.org. Exhibition booth will be
allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2014 organizing committee.
The University of Technology, Sydney will make its PR2, Turtle Bots and NAO
robots available to accepted demonstrations, if required.

WORKSHOPS
Participants are invited to hold a full/half day workshop on 27 October
2013 on a topic relevant to social robotics and the general theme
'SocialIntelligence'. Outlines of intended workshops are to be submitted to
workshops at icsr2014.org.

SOCIAL ROBOT COMPETITION
Social Robot Design Competition: A search for creative ideas about what a
social robot could be. This year we are accepting designs from
practitioners from any discipline, and in any format: designs, prototypes,
performances, videos or demos are invited for exhibition at the conference.
Please send submissions to competition at icsr2014.org.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair
    Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney

Program Chairs
    Michael Beetz, University fo Bremen, Germany
    Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney

Advisory Board
    Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA
    Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy
    Shuzhi Sam Ge, The National University of Singapore and University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University
    Jong Hwan Kim, KAIST, South Korea
    Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore
    Maja Mataric, University of South California, USA

Workshop Chairs
    Alen Alempijevic, University of Technology, Sydney
    Giuseppe Boccignone, Università degli Studi di Milano
    Bruce MacDonald, The University of Auckland

Exhibition Chairs
    Gavin Paul, University of Technology, Sydney
    Greg Peters, Sabre Autonomous Solutions (SABRE)

Local Organisation Chairs
    Teresa Vidal Calleja, University of Technology, Sydney
    Xun Wang, University of Technology, Sydney

VENUE
The conference and workshops will be held in Sydney at the Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney's museum of technology, design and industry. Located within
walking distance of Darling harbour, Chinatown and Central station, the
area is well served by hotels, restaurants and public transport. The
welcome event which is expected to include robot demos is planned for the
new Engineering and IT Building at the University of Technology, Sydney.

The Powerhouse Museum was opened in 1988 on the site of the old (but
refurbished) Ultimo power station that originally powered Sydney's former
tram network. While the modern museum opened in 1988, its collection
started as early as 1878 and continued as exhibitions and technical
museums. Today, there are estimated to be well over 500,000 separate items
in the Museum's collection, including a massive 200 tonne locomotive, a
flying boat and the Boulton and Watt rotative engine.
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