<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">---------------- Call for Papers: Special Session Educational Robotics</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(EDUCON2016), Abu Dhabi, UAE ----------------------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(Apologies for multiple copies due to cross posting)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear friends of RoboCup,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I would like to draw your attention to a special session in EduCon 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">called Educational Robotics. The IEEE EDUCON2016 will be held in the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">conference will be held in the beautiful Dusit Thani hotel from 11-13</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">April.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">IMPORTANT DATA IN SHORT:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">IEEE EDUCON2016,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">April 11 - 13, 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Paper submission</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.conftool.com/educon/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.conftool.com/educon/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Paper Submission 23 November</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2015</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of Acceptance 18 December 2015</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Author Registration and Payment Deadline 10 January 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Final Paper Due 8 February</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Conference Opening 11 April 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore® which</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ensures a wide dissemination of your valuable work. Once accepted and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">published (which is usually true for this conference), other indexing</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">services evaluate conferences and independently determine what they will</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">index.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For details on paper submission, registration or alike please</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">check our website at</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/proceedings.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/proceedings.php</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Note that the paper submission deadline is 23 November 2015.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In case of questions or doubts do not hesitate to contact the Special</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Session Chair</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tiago Caldeira ( </span><a href="mailto:tiago.caldeira@ibtikar.io" style="font-size:12.8px">tiago.caldeira@ibtikar.io</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> ).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are looking forward to receive your paper(s) and to meet you</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">in person at EduCon2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tiago Caldeira,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Special Session Chair</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">----------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Call for Papers for the EduCon</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> SPECIAL SESSION IN EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2016/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> 11 - 13 April 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Abu Dhabi, UAE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">----------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">:: Introduction</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Robotics is a growing area in the last decades, changing where it is</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">applied. It was more present in the industrial environment but is now</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">expanding itself to many others locations, such as home, offices and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">outdoors. Another relevant change is where robotics is introduced in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">education. It started as a University and Technical College subject but</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">it’s now widely adopted in many High-Schools all over the world, some</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">as an extracurricular activity and others as a support to STE(A)M</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Education. With the increase in the robotics education interest, many</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">competitions started worldwide, as a tool to motivate the students and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">teach them while having fun. One of the key examples of that is</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">RoboCupJunior. With the integration of automatic devices in many aspects</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of the daily life, the robotics related jobs are quickly increasing. In</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">this special Session we intend to focus on the interaction between</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">teachers, students and public when using Robotics platforms for</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">education</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">:: Important Dates</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Paper Submission 23 November</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2015</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of Acceptance 18 December 2015</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Author Registration and Payment Deadline 10 January 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Final Paper Due 8 February</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Conference Opening 11 April 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">:: Submission Procedure</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">When you are sure your paper meets the formatting requirements please go</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">to the conference's submission server: </span><a href="https://www.conftool.com/educon" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.conftool.com/educon</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and create an account if you don't have one and submit your</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">contribution.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Important: Please be careful when entering metadata such as title,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">abstract, author's names etc: verify these data because they are used</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">for creating the conference program, the proceedings, the Xplore entries</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">etc. In the worst case you have wrong data in IEEE Xplore which cannot</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">be modified once submitted!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">:: Sponsor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">IEEE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Khalifa University</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">EBTIC</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abu Dhabi Education Council</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">:: Committee</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Eng. Tiago Caldeira, </span><a href="http://ibtikar.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ibtikar.io</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> , UAE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Amy Eguchi, Bloomfield College, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Eng. Ali Al Marzouqi, EmiratesSkills, UAE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. George Wesley Hitt, Khalifa University, UAE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, UAE</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Teresa Restivo, University of Porto, Portugal</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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