<font face="Courier New" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">CALL FOR PAPERS: </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Courier New'">INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (ICSR 2013)</span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> <a href="http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">October 27 </font><font face="Courier New">- 29th October, 2013</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">Deadline for submission of FULL PAPERS, applications for SPECIAL SESSIONS and ROBOTIC DEMONSTRATIONS: </font><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">3rd of July, 2013</span></p>
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<font face="Courier New">Download the call for papers: <a href="http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/html/files/CallForPappersICSR2013Call1.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/html/files/CallForPappersICSR2013Call1.pdf</a></font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">Proceedings to be published in Springer Verlag LNAI/LNCS</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> </font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">SUMMARY:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">The International Conference on Social </font><font face="Courier New">Rob</font><font face="Courier New">otics (ICSR) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the issues of interaction between humans and robots and on the integration of robots into our society. As in previous years there will be an overall theme for the conference, this year it will be "Companionship".</font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">================================================================</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">PAPER SUBMISSION:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">ICSR 2013 invites the submission of full papers from researchers, at any stage in their career, that contain significant findings and advances in all fields of social robotics. We are particularly interested in work that addresses or supports this years conference theme in topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">- </font><font face="Courier New">Rob</font><font face="Courier New">ots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">- Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Personal robots for the home</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">- Social acceptance and impact in the society</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- </font><font face="Courier New">Rob</font><font face="Courier New">ot ethics in human society</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">- Control architectures for social robotics</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Socially appealing design methodologies</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- Safety in robots working in human spaces</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">- Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">- </font><font face="Courier New">Rob</font><font face="Courier New">ot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming</font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">All contributions will be fully peer reviewed and the proceedings will be published with Springer-Verlag as part of their LNAI/LNCS series. Formatting and submission details will be available here:<a href="http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: </font><font face="Courier New">3/7/13</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">SPECIAL SESSION:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New">ICSR 2013 also invites applications for special sessions, whereby a focussed topic in the area of social robotics can be discussed at the conference and represented in the proceedings by approximately 6 papers. For expressions of interest please contact conference organisers </font><font face="Courier New"><a href="mailto:sec.icsr@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sec.icsr@gmail.com</a></font><font face="Courier New"> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: </font><font face="Courier New">3/7/13</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at the conference site please prepare 1 page summary about the demonstration and email </font><font face="Courier New"><a href="mailto:sec.icsr@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sec.icsr@gmail.com</a></font><font face="Courier New">. Exhibition booths will be allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2013 organizing committee. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: </font><font face="Courier New">3/7/13</font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">Participants are invited to hold a full/half day workshop on </font><font face="Courier New">27 October 2013</font><font face="Courier New"> on a topic relevant to social robotics and the general theme 'Companionship'. Outlines of intended workshops are to be submitted by </font><font face="Courier New">6 September 2013</font><font face="Courier New">. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: </font><font face="Courier New">6/9/13</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">There will be a competition to draw creative ideas on industrial designs in social or service robotics. Prizes will be awarded to the shortlisted designs. Full details will be posted on the website later in the year.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#222222" face="Courier New"> Guido Herrmann University of Bristol</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:'Courier New'"> </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Alois Knoll Technische Universität München</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<font color="#222222" face="Courier New"> Martin Pearson Bristol Robotics Laboratory</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><font color="#222222" face="Courier New"> Peter Ford Dominey Inserm - Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute</font></p>
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<font face="Courier New">Workshop Chairs</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Ute Leonards, University of Bristol</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New">Standing Committee:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="Courier New"> Shuzhi </font><font face="Courier New">Sam Ge</font><font face="Courier New">, National </font><font face="Courier New">University</font><font face="Courier New"> of </font><font face="Courier New">Singapore</font><font face="Courier New"> and UESTC. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Oussama Khatib, </font><font face="Courier New">Stanford</font><font face="Courier New"> </font><font face="Courier New">University</font><font face="Courier New">. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Maj Mataric, </font><font face="Courier New">University of South</font><font face="Courier New"></font><font face="Courier New">California</font><font face="Courier New">. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Haizhou Li, A*Star. </font><font face="Courier New">Jong-Hwan Kim</font><font face="Courier New">, KAIST. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Paolo Dario</font><font face="Courier New">, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="Courier New"> Ron Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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</span></font></p><div>------<br><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Professor Mary-Anne Williams</span> <div><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab</span><div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Associate Dean (Research and Development)</span><div>
<div style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology<br>University of Technology, Sydney</div><div><b style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div>Research and Development Office</div>
<div>Building 2 Level 7 Room 7092</div></span></b><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia</span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Phone: <a href="tel:%2B%2061%202%209514%202663" value="+61295142663" target="_blank">+ 61 2 9514 2663</a> (Gunasmin)</span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">
<font color="#999999">Facsimile: <a href="tel:%2B%2061%202%209514%202868" value="+61295142868" target="_blank">+ 61 2 9514 2868</a></font><br></div></div></div><div><font color="#999999">Entrepreneurial Fellow: <a href="http://codex.stanford.edu/people" target="_blank">CodeX Stanford University</a> </font></div>
<div><font color="#999999">Web: <a href="http://themagiclab.org/Mary-Anne" target="_blank">http://TheMagicLab.org/Mary-Anne</a></font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><font color="#999999"><a href="http://themagiclab.org/Mary-Anne" target="_blank"></a></font></div>
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