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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The 8th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://icsoro.org/icsr2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The 8th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and robots and on the integration of robots into our society.
The theme of the 2016 conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots interacting with each other and humans. Robots will improve quality of human life through assistance, enabling for instance independent living or providing
support in work-intensive, difficult and possibly complex situations. The conference aims to foster discussion on the development of computational models, robotic embodiments, and behavior that enable social robots to have an impact on the degree of personalized
companionship with humans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Robots with personality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Robots that can adapt to different users<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Personal robots for the home<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Social acceptance and impact in the society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Robot ethics in human society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Control architectures for social robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Socially appealing design methodologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Safety in robots working in human spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">* Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">SUBMISSION OF PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Full papers are limited to ten pages. Detailed instructions
for paper submission are available on the conference web site. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">EXHIBITIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Participants who would like to exhibit their relevant products during the conference site should submit a summary describing the demonstration. Exhibition space will be allocated to those approved by the ICSR
2016 organizing committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Participants are invited to hold a half day workshops and/or special sessions on topics relevant to social robotics. Proposals on workshops and special sessions will be considered by the organizing committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">COMPETITION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Social robot designs from practitioners from any discipline, and in any format, and designs, prototypes, performances or demos selected by the organizing committee will be invited for exhibition during the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PUBLISHER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Social Robotics (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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics (Fall 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Arvin Agah, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John-John Cabibihan, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Miguel A. Salichs, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Publication Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hongsheng He, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hae Won Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Maryam Mahani, Ricoh Americas Corp., Boulder, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Special Session Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Chung Hyuk Park, George Washington University, Washington, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">David Harvie, United States Military Academy, West Point, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Agnieszka Wykowska, Technische Universit?t München, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Competition Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Amit Kumar Pandey, Aldebaran, Paris, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Andrew Williams, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Publicity Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alan R Wagner, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Zhengchen Zhang, ASTAR, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">STANDING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, Stanford, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Maja Mataric, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Haizhou Li, A*Star, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jong Hwan Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pontedera, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Special Session proposal submission: April 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Special Session proposal notification: April 12, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Workshop proposal submission: April 19, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Workshop proposal notification: April 26, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paper submission (Regular & Special): June 7, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paper notification: July 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Final camera-ready paper submission: July 26, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Competition submission: September 20, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Competition notification: October 3, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Conference: November 1-3, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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