[robocup-worldwide] AAAI Fall Symposium on AI and HRI ! Submission: June 13, 2014

Manuela Veloso mmv at cs.cmu.edu
Fri May 23 09:57:24 EDT 2014




AAAI Fall Symposium:
AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI)
Nov 13-15, 2014 -- Arlington, VA

http://ai-hri.github.io/

2 page abstracts due June 13
Email as a pdf to <ai-hri-symposium-submissions at googlegroups.com>


This symposium will bring together and strengthen the community of
researchers working on the AI challenges inherent to Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI). Humans and human environments bring with them inherent
uncertainty in dynamics, structure, and interaction. HRI aims to develop
robots that are intelligent, autonomous, and capable of interacting with,
modeling, and learning from humans. These goals are at the core of AI.

The field of HRI is a broad community encompassing robotics, AI, HCI,
psychology and social science.  In this meeting we aim to specifically
bring together the subset of this community that are focused on the AI
problems of HRI.  Currently this type of HRI work is seen across such a
variety of venues (HRI, RSS, ICRA, IROS, Ro-Man, RoboCup, and more), that
we lack a cohesive core community.  Building this community is the central
purpose of this symposium.

Planned activities:

- Keynote talks “How is HRI an AI problem?”: We will have keynotes giving
eight different perspectives about how AI research is going to bring us
closer to the reality of humans interacting with robots on everyday tasks.

- Breakout groups + panel discussions: these discussions will be focused
on (1) defining a road map of grand challenges for this research area, and
(2) what is the core venue for this community.

- Poster session: This session will highlight state-of-the-art work and
approaches to AI-HRI.

- Team building: Given the diverse set of venues that this type of
research is presented, it is very rare that members of the AI-HRI
community get together in the same room. As such, a large part of this
effort is to bring together a community of researchers, strengthen old
connections and build new ones. Ample time will be provided for networking
and informal discussions.

Confirmed speakers:

- Cynthia Breazeal
- Henrik Christensen
- Maja Mataric
- Manuela Veloso


Important dates:
- To have your work featured in the poster session, submit a two-page
abstract by June 13, 2014.  Email your submission as a pdf to
<ai-hri-symposium-submissions at googlegroups.com>

- Decisions will be returned by July 11, 2014

- The symposium will be held Nov 13-15, 2014 in Arlington, VA.

Organizing committee:
- Andrea L. Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology  (chair)
- Kris Hauser, Indiana University
- Chad Jenkins, Brown University
- Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California
- Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University





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