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<b><a>IJCAI 2017 </a></b></span><b><a>WORKSHOP</a></b> </div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b><a>HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT in the Home, Workplace and
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<div><a href="http://ijcai-17.org/" target="_blank">26th International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence</a><br>
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</span><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-">Melbourne, Australia — Aug 19-25 2017<br>
Workshop Date to be Advised: August 19, 20 or 21, 2017</span></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><br></span></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><b>{INVITED SPEAKERS}</b><br></span></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><b><a href="http://www.cs.uml.edu/~holly/" target="_blank">Holly Yanco</a></b>, Founder of the <a href="http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/" target="_blank">Robotics Lab</a>, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> </span>University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Director New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (<a href="http://nerve.uml.edu/" target="_blank">NERVE</a>)</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><a href="http://www.amitkpandey.com/" target="_blank"><b>Amit Kumar Pandey</b>,</a> Chief Scientist, <a href="http://www.softbank.jp/en/robot/" target="_blank">Softbank Robotics</a> Europe</span></div><div><span class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><br>
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</b></span><div><div class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-h5"><b>{IMPORTANT DATES}<br>
</b>Submissions open: <b>March 10, 2017 </b><br>
Paper Submission Deadline: <b>June 15, 2017 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)</b><div>Acceptance Notification: <b>June 20, 2017</b></div>
<div>Camera-Ready Version: <b>June 22, 2017<br>
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<div>Website: <a href="http://ijcaihumanrobotengagement.webnode.com/" target="_blank">http://ijcaihumanrobo<wbr>tengagement.webnode.com</a><br>
Contact: <a href="http://mary-annewilliams.com/" target="_blank">Mary-Anne Williams</a>, <a href="http://themagiclab.org/" target="_blank">The Magic Lab</a>, UTS</div>
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<b>{ABOUT}</b><br>
<div>Social robots are poised to have a profound impact on business,
society and the global economy. They are a disruptive technology.
A self-driving vehicle is an example of a social robot, not only
does it need to drive on the road safely but it must also create
enjoyable experiences for humans inside the vehicle, while at the
same time communicating with and anticipating nearby cars,
pedestrians, city infrastructure, land and space based
technologies. </div>
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<div>The key to success of any social robot is how well it can
engage people around it as it pursues its design goals. The
critical research question is how can we design social robots to
enhance the human experience and improve people's lives?<br>
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The purpose of this workshop is to explore how social robots can
generate value and create engaging experiences for people in the
home, workplace and public spaces. The workshop will focus on
social robots in the home, workplace and public spaces. Robot
encounters in public spaces will be different to those in
workplaces where a robot is a long-term partner and expected to
help humans be more productive. The key research challenges are
autonomy, proactivity and intelligence, sociability.</div>
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Social robotics is a field involving several disciplines. We seek
to bring together research interests that are not traditionally
'close'. In particular, the workshop will provide a venue for
fruitful discussion between artificial intelligence researchers
exploring pervasive computing, social robotics, cognitive science,
software engineering, law, AI planning and knowledge
representation.</div>
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<div>In addition to presented papers the Workshop will involve
practical Design Thinking session and much lively discussion and
debate on the applications and implications of social robotics.<br>
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Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to the following:<br>
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<div>- Human-robot interaction and collaboration</div>
<div>- Social intelligence for proactive autonomous robots</div>
<div>- Law abiding autonomous robots </div>
<div>- Engagement and disengagement in HRI</div>
<div>- Human attention, proactive decision making and behaviour</div>
<div>- Autonomy, learning and intelligence</div>
<div>- Joint attention and emotional connection</div>
<div>- Social robots in an Internet of Things ecosystem</div>
<div>- Privacy and security for Social Robotics</div>
<div>- Legal and ethical implications of social robots</div>
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<div><b>{SUBMISSION DETAILS}</b><br>
Submitted papers must be original work of no more than 6 pages in
length and formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted
electronically through the Workshop submission site:<br>
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Formatting Guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word Template can be
downloaded from the following link:<br>
<a href="http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip" target="_blank"><br></a></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div class="m_5848118479135999566gmail-m_-394480563366908905gmail-m_4496810859393139376gmail-h5"><div><a href="http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip" target="_blank">
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Submissions must be in electronic form. Additional material such
as videos may also be submitted. At least one author of each
accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the
work.
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Submissions received after the deadline or that do not meet the
length or formatting requirements will not be considered for
review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification
of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to
the designated contact author soon after receipt.<br>
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<b>{ORGANIZING COMMITTEE}</b><br>
<b>
Mary-Anne Williams</b>, University of Technology Sydney and
CodeX Stanford University (Chair)<br>
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Benjamin Johnston</b>, University of Technology Sydney<br>
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William Judge</b>, Commonwealth Bank of Australia<br>
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Amit Kumar Pandey</b>, Softbank Robotics Europe<br>
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Meg Tonkin</b>, University of Technology Sydney
<div><b>Jonathan Vitale,</b> University of Technology Sydney</div><div><b>Xun Wang</b>, University of Technology Sydney and Commonwealth Bank of Australia</div>
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<b>{PROGRAM COMMITTEE}</b><br>
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Nic Carey</b>, Harvard University, USA<br>
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Xiaoping Chen</b>, University of Science and Technology of China<br>
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Jesse Clark,</b> University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br>
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Tony Cohn</b>, Leeds University, UK<br>
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Kate Darling</b>, MIT, USA<br>
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Peter Gärdenfors</b>, Lund University, Sweden<br>
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Georg Gottlob</b>, Oxford University, UK<br>
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Daniel Grollman</b>, Sphero, USA<br>
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Michael Genesereth</b>, CodeX and the Dept of Computer Science,
Stanford University, USA<br>
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Hatice Gunes</b>, University of Cambridge, UK<br>
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George Konidaris</b>, Brown University, USA<br>
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Eryk Korfel</b>, Commonwealth Bank of Australia<br>
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Mahya Knox</b>, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br>
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Séverin Lemaignan</b>, University of Plymouth, UK<br>
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William Mailer</b>, Commonwealth Bank of Australia<br>
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Lilia Moshkina</b>, Neato Robotics, USA<br>
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Yukie Naga</b>i, Osaka University, Japan<br>
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Bernhard Nebel</b>, University of Freiburg, Germany<br>
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Suman Ojha</b>, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br>
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David Parkes</b>, Harvard University, USA<br>
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Pavlos Peppas</b>, Patras University, Greece<br>
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Sammy Pfeiffer</b>, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br>
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Brian Scassellati</b>, Yale University, USA<br>
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Julie Shah</b>, MIT, USA
<div><b>Harry Surden,</b> University of Colorado and Stanford
University, USA</div>
<div><b>Manuela Veloso</b>, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div>
<div><b>Roland Vogl</b>, CodeX and the Law School, Stanford
University, USA</div>
<div><b>Holly Yanco</b>, UMass Lowell, USA</div>
<div><b>Xun Wang</b>, University of Technology Sydney and
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
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