<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>[Apologies for multiple list broadcast]</div><div><br></div><div>FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (ICSR 2014) <br>
Conference Theme: Social Intelligence <br><a href="http://icsr2014.org" target="_blank">http://icsr2014.org</a><br>October 27th - 29th, 2014 </div><div>Sydney Australia</div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 18, 2014<div>
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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, social knowledge and skills for robots, robot services, social impact of robots and the integration of robots into society.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:<br><br> - Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments<br> - Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities<br>
- Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life<br> - Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots<br> - Personal robots for the home<br> - Social acceptance and impact in society<br> - Robot ethics in human society and legal implications<br>
- Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding<br> - Control architectures for social robotics<br> - Socially appealing design methodologies<br> - Safety in robots working in human spaces<br> - Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots<br>
- Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming<br> - Knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence<br> - Cognitive Architectures that support social intelligence for robots<br>
- Robots in the workplace.<br> - Human-Robot Interaction<br> - Creative and Entertaining Robots<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br></div> Special Session Proposal Submission: *15 April 15, 2014*<br> Workshop Proposal Submission: *2 May 2014*<br>
Paper Submission: *18 June 2014*<div><br> Notification of Paper Acceptance: 16 July 2014<br> Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 30 July 2014<br></div> Competitions and Exhibitions Submission Deadline: 12 September 2013<br>
Competitions and Exhibitions Notification of Acceptance: 26 September 2014<div><br><br>INVITED SPEAKERS<br> Tony Cohn, Leeds University, UK<br> Peter Gardenförs, Lund University, Sweden<br>
Guy Hoffman, IDC Media Invention Lab<br> Oussama Khatib, Stanford University<br><br>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS<br>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>
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<br>PUBLICATION<br>The papers published in ICSR2014 will appear in a volume of the LNCS/LNAI series by Springer. The conference's proceedings are indexed by EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, and Scopus.<div>
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<br>SUBMISSION OF SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS<br></div>We invited you to arrange a special session in the main Conference Program. Please send the following information (no more than three pages) to the conference chair. Session title, description of the topic, a case as to why this topic is important to social robotics and/or the theme social intelligence, a list of potential contributors (10 authors who you have approached and who commit to submitting a high quality paper to the session).<br>
<br>EXHIBITIONS<br>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, if required.<div>
<br>WORKSHOPS<br>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 'SocialIntelligence'. Outlines of intended workshops are to be submitted to <a href="mailto:workshops@icsr2014.org" target="_blank">workshops@icsr2014.org</a>.<br>
<br></div>SOCIAL ROBOT COMPETITION<br>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>
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<br><br>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION<br><br>General Chair<br> Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br>Program Chairs<br> Michael Beetz, University fo Bremen, Germany <br> Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney<br>
<br>Advisory Board<br> Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA <br> Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy <br> Shuzhi Sam Ge, The National University of Singapore and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China <br>
Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University <br> Jong Hwan Kim, KAIST, South Korea <br> Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore <br> Maja Mataric, University of South California, USA<br>
<br>Workshop Chairs<br> Alen Alempijevic, University of Technology, Sydney<br> Giuseppe Boccignone, Università degli Studi di Milano<br> Bruce MacDonald, The University of Auckland<br><br>Exhibition Chairs<br>
Gavin Paul, University of Technology, Sydney<br> Greg Peters, Sabre Autonomous Solutions (SABRE)<br><br>Local Organisation Chairs<br> Teresa Vidal Calleja, University of Technology, Sydney<br> Xun Wang, University of Technology, Sydney<br>
<br><br>VENUE<br>The conference and workshops will be held in Sydney at the Powerhouse Museum, 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. The welcome event which is expected to include robot demos is planned for the new Engineering and IT Building at the University of Technology, Sydney.<br>
<br>The Powerhouse Museum 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.<br>
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