[robocup-worldwide] International Social Robotics Conference 2016

[Mary-Anne Williams]

International Social Robotics Conference 2016 <http://icsoro.org/icsr2016>
Kansas City, USA
1-3 November 2016

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 on 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 our society.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments
* Robots with personality
* Robots that can adapt to different user
* 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 the society
* Robot ethics in human society
* 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

The Proceedings of ICSR 2016 will be published by Springer International
Publishing as part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series
(LNAI). Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue
in the International Journal of Social Robotics (Fall 2017).

IMPORTANT DATES:

*Special Session proposal submission: *April 5, 2016
*Special Session proposal notification: *April 12, 2016
*Workshop proposal submission: *April 19, 2016
*Workshop proposal notification: *April 26, 2016
*Paper submission (Regular & Special): *June 7, 2016
*Paper notification: *July 5, 2015
*Final camera-ready paper submission: *July 26, 2016
*Competition submission: *September 20, 2016
*Competition notification: *October 3, 2016
*Conference: *November 1st-3rd, 2016




*Professor Mary-Anne Williams*

*Director, Disruptive Innovation,* University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Founder and Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab
<http://themagiclab.org/>, QCIS, UTS
Faculty Fellow,  CodeX, Stanford University
The VOICE Project <http://www.voice-project.eu> - building a global
start-up ecosystem
Twitter: @SwizzleFish <https://twitter.com/SwizzleFish>

“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become” ― Dr. Seuss
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