<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style=""><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://icsoro.org/icsr2016">International Social Robotics Conference 2016</a></span></div><div style="">Kansas City, USA </div><div style="">1-3 November 2016</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 on 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 our society.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Robots with personality</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Robots that can adapt to different user</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Personal robots for the home</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Social acceptance and impact in the society</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Robot ethics in human society</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Control architectures for social robotics</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Socially appealing design methodologies</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Safety in robots working in human spaces</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The Proceedings of ICSR 2016 will be published by Springer International Publishing as part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics (Fall 2017). </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Special Session proposal submission: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">April 5, 2016</span></div><div><b>Special Session proposal notification: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">April 12, 2016</span></div><div><b>Workshop proposal submission: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">April 19, 2016</span></div><div><b>Workshop proposal notification: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">April 26, 2016</span></div><div><b>Paper submission (Regular & Special): </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">June 7, 2016</span></div><div><b>Paper notification: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">July 5, 2015</span></div><div><b>Final camera-ready paper submission: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">July 26, 2016</span></div><div><b>Competition submission: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">September 20, 2016</span></div><div><b>Competition notification: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">October 3, 2016</span></div><div><b>Conference: </b><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="">November 1st</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">-</span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="">3rd, 2016</span></span></div><div><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class=""><br></span></span></div><div><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class=""><br></span></span></div></div></div><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><u><font color="#666666"> </font></u></b></div><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#e69138" size="1"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#e69138">Professor Mary-Anne Williams</font></b><br></font></div><div><b><font color="#e69138" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Director, Disruptive Innovation,</b> University of Technology Sydney (UTS)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Founder and Director,</font><font color="#999999"> </font><a href="http://themagiclab.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#e69138">Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab</font></a></font><font color="#999999" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#666666">QCIS, </font><font color="#666666" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">UTS</font><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#666666"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Faculty Fellow, </font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font>CodeX<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, Stanford University</font></font><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.voice-project.eu" target="_blank"><font color="#e69138">The VOICE Project</font></a><font color="#666666"> - building a global start-up ecosystem</font></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Twitter:</span><font size="2"> </font></font></font><a href="https://twitter.com/SwizzleFish" style="outline:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:11.2px;text-decoration:none!important;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank"><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff9900">@<span style="text-decoration:underline!important">SwizzleFish</span></font></a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#e69138">“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become”</font><font color="#b45f06"> </font><font color="#666666">― Dr. Seuss</font></font><br></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#666666"><br></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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