<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center"><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (ICSR 2014) </font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900"><span style="font-weight:normal">Conference Theme:</span> Social Intelligence </font></div><div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900"><a href="http://icsr2014.org/" target="_blank">http://icsr2014.org</a></font></div>
<div style="font-weight:normal;text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">October 27th - 29th, 2014 </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) brings researchers and practitioners together to report and discuss advances in the exciting and emerging field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots, robot services, and the integration of robots into society.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">The theme of the 2014 conference is "Social Intelligence“. Robots will improve the quality of human life through assistance, enabling for instance independent living or providing support in work-intensive, difficult and complex situations. Fluent interaction and collaboration with people will require that robots develop social intelligence a critical capacity for negotiating complex social relationships and environments. The conference aims to foster discussion on the development of computational models, robotic embodiments, and behaviour that will enable social robots to develop sophisticated levels of social intelligence. 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 of 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 society.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:</div></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div>
<span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Personal robots for the home</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Social acceptance and impact in society</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Robot ethics in human society and legal implications</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Control architectures for social robotics</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Socially appealing design methodologies</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Safety in robots working in human spaces</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming</div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence</div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> - Cognitive Architectures that support social intelligence for robots</div><div style="text-align:left"> - Robots in the workplace.</div></span><div style="text-align:left">
<br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div></h4></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Special Session Proposal Submission: March 15, 2014</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Workshop Proposal Submission: 2 May 2014</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><div style="text-align:left">Regular/Special Session Paper Submission: 18 June 2014</div></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Notification of Paper Acceptance: 16 July 2014</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 30 July 2014</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Competitions Submission Deadline: 12 September 2013</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Competitions Notification of Acceptance: 26 September 2014</div></span></h4></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center">
<h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Conference Dates: 27th to 29th October 2014</div></span></h4></div></div></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr">
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center"><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:4px 0px;float:left;width:840px"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">INVITED SPEAKERS</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"> Tony Cohn<span style="font-weight:normal">, Leeds University, UK</span></div><div style="text-align:left"> Peter Gardenförs<span style="font-weight:normal">, Lund University, Sweden</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"> Oussama Khatib<span style="font-weight:normal">, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">SUBMISSION OF PAPERS</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website. Full papers are limited to ten A4 size papers, extended abstracts to two A4 pages. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available at <a href="http://www.icsr2014.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icsr2014.org</a>. All papers will be refereed by the program committee.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">EXHIBITIONS</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at the conference site please prepare 1 page summary describing the demonstration and email <a href="mailto:exhibitions@icsr2014.org" target="_blank">exhibitions@icsr2014.org</a>. Exhibition booth will be allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2014 organizing committee. The University of Technology, Sydney will make its PR2, Turtle Bots and NAO robots available to accepted demonstrations when required.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">WORKSHOPS</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
Participants are invited to hold a full/half day workshop on 27 October 2013 on a topic relevant to social robotics and the general theme 'Social Intelligence'. Outlines of intended workshops are to be submitted to <a href="mailto:workshops@icsr2014.org" target="_blank">workshops@icsr2014.org</a>.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">COMPETITIONS</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
Social Robot Design Competition: A search for creative ideas about what a social robot could be. This year we are accepting designs from practitioners from any discipline, and in any format: designs, prototypes, performances, videos or demos are invited for exhibition at the conference. Please send submissions to <a href="mailto:competition@icsr2014.org" target="_blank">competition@icsr2014.org</a>.</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#ff9900">CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">General Chair</div>
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<span style="font-weight:normal"> Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney</span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Program Chairs</div><div style="text-align:left">
<span style="font-weight:normal"> Michael Beetz, University fo Bremen, Germany </span><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney</div>
</span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Advisory Board</div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"> Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA </span><br></div><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy </div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> Shuzhi Sam Ge, The National University of Singapore and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China </div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University </div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left">
Jong Hwan Kim, KAIST, South Korea </div>
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore </div></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:left"> Maja Mataric, University of South California, USA</div>
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</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The conference and workshops will be held in Sydney at the</span><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span><a href="http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/" style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900">Powerhouse Museum</font></a><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">. The museum is Sydney's museum of technology, design and industry. Located within walking distance of Darling harbour, Chinatown and Central station, the area is well served by hotels, restaurants and public transport.</span><br>
</div></h4></div></div></div></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:12px 0px;float:left;width:840px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><br><font color="#000000">The </font><font color="#ff9900"><a href="http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900">Powerhouse Museum</font></a> </font><font color="#000000">was opened in 1988 on the site of the old (but refurbished) Ultimo power station that originally powered Sydney's former tram network. While the modern museum opened in 1988, its collection started as early as 1878 and continued as exhibitions and technical museums. Today, there are estimated to be well over 500,000 separate items in the Museum's collection, including a massive 200 tonne locomotive, a flying boat and the Boulton and Watt rotative engine.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">------<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, QCIS</span><div><div><div style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology<br>University of Technology, Sydney</div>
</div><div><font color="#999999">Faculty: <a href="http://codex.stanford.edu/people" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CodeX Stanford University</a> </font></div><div><font color="#999999">Web: <a href="http://themagiclab.org/Mary-Anne" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://TheMagicLab.org/Mary-Anne</a></font></div>
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