[robocup-worldwide] HRI workshop on Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions

[Justin W Hart]

CALL FOR PAPERS

You are invited to submit your research on Nonverbal Human-Robot
Interaction (nHRI) to this year’s HRI Workshop on Exploring Applications
for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions.

Submission deadline: February 21, 2021

Website: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fnon-verbal-hri-2021%2Fhome&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cfd2567df5151464d3f7b08d8cd71413b%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637485233602037624%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QyS0g3unX6Ryt3ClbUkoZj%2FegY8Otzjw30fsTvCrSJ4%3D&reserved=0

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Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) encompasses factors such as: gaze,
gesture, touch, body language, the expression of affect, paralinguistics,
and facial expression. nHRI has advanced beyond theoretical and
computational contributions. Progress has been made through a variety of
user studies and laboratory experiments as well as practical efforts such
as integration of nonverbal inputs with other HRI modalities including
domain specific implementations. This workshop seeks to promote
collaboration between two threads of research: experimental nHRI, and
application domains that can benefit from its use.

The workshop will link researchers working on new approaches to nHRI in the
laboratory to applied roboticists who present challenges in specific
domains, such as: service robots, field robotics, socially-assistive
robotics, and human-robot collaborative work that could benefit from richer
nHRI. This workshop will draw participation from diverse areas to evaluate
best practices and integration efforts across different research domains.
We will target a broad, cross-disciplinary audience, and provide a venue
for recent efforts related to multimodal interaction, system integration,
data collection, and user studies.

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Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Michael Neff

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Michael Neff is a professor of Computer Science and Cinema & Digital Media
at the University of California, Davis where he directs the Motion Lab, an
interdisciplinary research effort in character animation and embodied
input. His Ph.D. is from the University of Toronto and he is also a
Certified Laban Movement Analyst. His interests include character animation
tools, especially modeling expressive movement, physics-based animation,
gesture and applying performing arts knowledge to animation. At Davis, he
is working to bridge the art and technology communities on campus,
collaborating with computer scientists, dancers, choreographers and
geologists. He received an NSF CAREER Award (2009-14), the Alain Fournier
Award for his dissertation (2005), a best paper award from Intelligent
Virtual Agents (2007) and the Isadora Duncan Award for Visual Design
(2009). He currently serves as the chair for the Department of Cinema and
Digital Media.


Doris Aschenbrenner

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Doris Aschenbrenner is an assistant professor at TU Delft. Before 2017, she
was a researcher at the research institute "Zentrum für Telematik" at
Würzburg. She received her computer science diploma at the University of
Würzburg in 2012 and holds a doctorate degree (Dr. rer. nat) from the same
university covering a work about remote maintenance of industrial robots.
The work was developed together with examples from production provided by
mainly Procter & Gamble and KUKA Industries. Doris works on robotics and
automation, cognitive systems and advanced human-machine interfaces like
Augmented and Virtual Reality. Her main research interest is to create
sustainable employment within the fourth industrial revolution. This is
possible if we are able to develop the "Operator 4.0" who is supported by
technology so that he or she can enhance the physical, sensing and
cognitive abilities. The intelligent production system can be described as
a smart cyber-physical system which works in an interdependent teamwork
configuration together with human workers (Human Cyber-Physical Production
System HCPPS). She is a member of the GI, the ASME, and the IEEE.

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The workshop will comprise three focus areas:

1) Theory, User Studies, and Laboratory Experimentation;

2) Applications and Application Domains; and

3) Domain-Specific Challenges.

Papers will include short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages)
and long-format

integration and experimental papers (4-6 pages).

This workshop will facilitate cross-pollination from disparate efforts and
improve our

collective ability to evaluate future nHRI contributions.

Please see our website for more details.

Important Dates:

February 21: Submission deadline for second round of papers

March 1: Notification for second deadline

March 8: ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, first workshop day

March 8: nHRI Workshop

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- Advantages of systems that leverage nHRI in teamwork, companionship, and
other applications

- Theories and perspectives of non-verbal communication

- Exchange of gesture

- Studies of the interpretation of gesture and facial expression

- Microexpressions and affect

- Theory of mind approaches to non-verbal communication

- Variations of nonverbal expression across cultures

- Physical, mental, age, and gender specific expressions

On behalf of the organizing committee,

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Nick DePalma - Visiting Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Pittsburgh

Justin Hart - Assistant Professor of Practice, The University of Texas at
Austin

Bradley Hayes - Assistant Professor, The University of Colorado Boulder

Karl Kruusamäe - Associate Professor, The University of Tartu

Reuth Mirsky - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin

Mitch Pryor - Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin

Xuesu Xiao - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
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