<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ROBOTICS (ICSR 2014) Conference Theme: Social Intelligence<br>October 27th - 29th, 2014<br>Sydney, Australia<br><a href="http://icsr2014.org" target="_blank">http://icsr2014.org</a><br><br>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. 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.<br><br><br>The conference will feature plenary talks, single track of presentation, two special sessions, three workshops, a large exhibition program and competition and social activities.<br><br>INVITED SPEAKERS<br><br> Tony Cohn, Leeds University, UK<br><br> Peter Gardenförs, Lund University, Sweden<br><br> Guy Hoffman, IDC Media Invention Lab<br><br> Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University<br><br>SPECIAL SESSIONS<br><br> The conference will feature two special sessions:<br><br> Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics<br><br> Social Robots for Therapeutic Purposes<br><br>WORKSHOPS<br><br> The conference will feature three workshops:<br><br> Robots and Art - Misbehaving Machines<br><br> Attention for Social Intelligence<br><br> Social Robotics for Health Innovation<br><br>REGISTRATION<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Registration for the conference is open at: <a href="http://icsr2014.org/registration.html" target="_blank">http://icsr2014.org/registration.html</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Registration includes participation in all sessions, a choice of one workshop, morning and afternoon teas, as well as the conference banquet.</blockquote><br>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION<br><br>General Chair<br><br> Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br>Program Chairs<br><br> Michael Beetz, University fo Bremen, Germany<br><br> Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br>Advisory Board<br><br> Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Tech, USA<br><br> Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy<br><br> Shuzhi Sam Ge, The National University of Singapore and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China<br><br> Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University<br><br> Jong Hwan Kim, KAIST, South Korea<br><br> Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore<br><br> Maja Mataric, University of South California, USA<br><br>Workshop Chairs<br><br> Alen Alempijevic, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br> Giuseppe Boccignone, Università degli Studi di Milano<br><br> Bruce MacDonald, The University of Auckland<br><br>Exhibition Chairs<br><br> Gavin Paul, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br> Greg Peters, Sabre Autonomous Solutions (SABRE)<br><br>Local Organisation Chairs<br><br> Teresa Vidal Calleja, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br> Xun Wang, University of Technology, Sydney<br><br>VENUE<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">The conference and workshops will be held in Sydney at the Powerhouse Museum. 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.<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><br><br></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><div><div><div>------<br><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Professor Mary-Anne Williams</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab, QCIS</span></div><div><font color="#ff6600">Faculty of Engineering and IT<br></font><div><div><div style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">University of Technology, Sydney</div></div><div><font color="#999999">Faculty Fellow: <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">Guest Professor:</font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><a href="http://en.ustc.edu.cn/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">University of Science and Technology of China</a><font color="#666666"> (USTC)</font></div><div><a href="http://au.linkedin.com/in/maryanne" title="View public profile" name="14876af79176f1f0_148768796d8da754_SafeHtmlFilter_webProfileURL" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:middle;text-decoration:none;line-height:13.1999998092651px;display:inline-block;zoom:1;background:url(https://static.licdn.com/scds/common/u/images/apps/profile/sprite/sprite_profile_top_card_v8.png) 0px -249px no-repeat rgb(246,246,246)" target="_blank">au.linkedin.com/in/maryanne</a><font color="#666666"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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