[robocup-worldwide] [meetings] Social Robotics for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, ICRA 2020

[Salvatore Anzalone]

*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***
[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]

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         Workshop on Social Robotics for
           Neurodevelopmental Disorders

                 Paris, France
                 June 2nd, 2020

              In conjunction with
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
                   ICRA 2020

Email: icra2020ndd at easychair.org
Website: https://icra2020ndd.wordpress.com/

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In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person gathering of ICRA
2020 in Paris has been canceled. ICRA 2020 will be held only as a virtual
conference. Therefore, the workshop on “Social Robotics for
Neurodevelopmental Disorders” will be held as virtual event the 2nd of
June, between 15:00 and 17:30 (CEST), according to the new schedule:
https://icra2020ndd.wordpress.com/program/


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REGISTRATION
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Access to the workshop is restricted to registered participants:
https://forms.gle/NfkdxovkVrKdCFRx7
Mandatory registration is open until June 1st, 2020. The participation to
the workshop will be free of charge.


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AIM AND SCOPE
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Neurodevelopmental deficits (NDD) are defined by the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) as impairments on the development
of the brain or of the central nervous system, with a typical onset in
early childhood. These disorders are characterized by specific limitations
on language, attention or motor control abilities and on a global
impairment of social skills (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder, specific learning disorder).
Recent years were characterized by a growing interest on the use of new
technologies for children with NDD. Social robots, in particular, emerged
as tools endowed with a physical embodiment, capable of simplifying the
complexity of the social interactions. Experimental evidence suggests how
such robots could be used by clinicians as instruments capable of achieving
finer diagnoses and as tools for cognitive remediation. Although most
research in this field may be regarded as preliminary, the use of social
robots in NDD has the potential of achieving a continuous long-term
observation of the children, allowing a finer tailoring of the therapies,
treating each “unique” child for his/her “unique” problem.
The emergence of socially assistive robots tailored to the needs of NDDs
lays on an interdisciplinary effort involving engineers, psychiatrists,
psychologists, cognitive scientists, instructors and families. By
presenting scientific advances on the use of social robotics in NDDs, the
goal of this workshop is to foster new ideas, discussions and
interdisciplinary collaborations between all the stakeholders involved in
NDDs caring, as well as between research and the healthcare industry.

The main aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for young
researchers to share their recent advances as well as to listen and
interact with senior researchers with different backgrounds working in
NDDs. This workshop will focus on metrics, models, techniques, algorithms
that enable social robots to be effective tools in the NDD care, in
clinical contexts, as well as outside the hospital.

Topics of interest will include, but will not be limited to:
- Robot-aided diagnosis;
- Robot-assisted therapies;
- Personalized interactions and tailored interventions with robots;
- Social interaction in joint activities with robots;
- Socio-cognitive skills training;
- Robots as communication partners;
- Attention and engagement measures in NDDs;
- Affective interaction and emotional understanding;
- Imitation, perspective taking and empathy;
- Fine motor skills evaluation;
- Social robots in special education;
- Intensive intervention with social robots;
- Assistive social robots at home;
- Specific field applications based on ABA or ESDM approaches.


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Brian Scassellati
Yale Social Robotics Laboratory
Yale University

- David Cohen
Service de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université

- Aida Nazarikhorram
LuxAI Co-founder & CCO

- Charles Tijus
Laboratoire de Cognition Humaine et Artificielle
Université Paris 8


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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- Salvatore Maria Anzalone
Laboratoire de Cognition Humaine et Artificielle
Université Paris 8

- Hoang-Long Cao
Brussels Human Robotics Research Center
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

- Mohamed Chetouani
Institut des Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique
Sorbonne Université

- Kerstin Dautenhahn
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Systems Design
Engineering
University of Waterloo

This workshop is sponsored and partially financed by the French ANR project
iReCheck.


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Paul Baxter, University of Lincoln
Lola Cañamero, University of Hertfordshire
Laurence Chaby, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS
Antonio Chella, Università di Palermo
Pablo Gomez Esteban, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Patrick Henaff, Université de Lorraine, INRIA,CNRS
Giovanni Pioggia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Silvia Rossi, Università di Napoli Federico II
Emmanuel Senft, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Charles Tijus, Université Paris 8
Bram Vanderborght, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Luke Wood, University of Hertfordshire


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CONTACTS
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Email: icra2020ndd at easychair.org
Website: https://icra2020ndd.wordpress.com/
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