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Dear colleagues,


You are all invited to submit to the first Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction, co-located with the 2022 International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022) in Nara, Japan.


Submission deadline is on June 24, 2022. We are working on a potential special issue with several journals, namely IJSR (International Journal of Social Robotics), Interaction Study, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, regarding publishing submissions accepted to our workshop as a special issue at one of these journals.


We are also excited to announce that we have six confirmed speakers: Prof. Dana Kulić, Prof. Hatice Gunes, Prof. Johnathan Mell, Prof. Adriana Tapus, Prof. Aiguo Song, and Prof. Xiaofeng Liu!


Please see below for more detail or visit our website www.a-hri.me<http://www.a-hri.me>. We look forward to seeing you in our workshop!


[The workshop committee would like to express its sincere gratitude to Hohai University and UKRI Node on Trust for their great support.]

Rationale and Scope

In recent years, robotic applications have entered various aspects of our lives, especially healthcare services. It is common in these applications that a user interacts directly with a robot.


In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), trust and mutual adaption are established and maintained through a positive social relationship between the robot and the human interactor and rely on the perceived competence of a robot on the social-emotional dimension. How a user perceives a robot's social intelligence and their social relationship with the robot can have a direct influence on the outcomes of an HRI system. Moreover, in many HRI applications, social-emotional interaction with the intended users is the main goal of the system or a core strategy to achieve the desired outcomes. For example, in HRI techniques can be further applied to various human external behaviours and internal states understanding applications for various, such as gesture and facial expression recognition, emotion/dimensional affect analysis, as well as mental health (e.g., depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc.) and personality recognition. Thus, such affective HRI applications require emotion-awareness and social-emotional competence in the robot's functions to deliver acceptable services. In addition, for robots deployed in shared spaces with humans, even when direct HRI is not expected to occur, social intelligence of robots, such as the ability to follow certain social norms or to predict human intentions, is key to safe and effective deployment.

Research Questions

The first AHRI workshop will focus on discussing the following research questions:

  *   How to perceive unimodal or multimodal affective human behaviour adaptively / accurately in HRI?

  *   How to efficiently generate natural and affective robot behaviour in HRI?

  *   How to advantageously facilitate human users’ mental and physical well-being with affective HRI applications?

Research Topics (including, but not limited to):

  *   Human emotion recognition

  *   Mental rehabilitation with robot

  *   Multimodal mental health and personality recognition

  *   Emotion-aware Human–Robot Interaction

  *   Emotion Recognition in the wild

  *   Emotional human-robot interaction

  *   Robot emotional verbal behaviour generation

  *   Robot emotional nonverbal behaviour generation

  *   Robot co-speech gesture generation

  *   Robot co-speech face action generation

  *   Non-verbal human-robot interaction

  *   Multimodal emotion recognition

  *   Emotion in human-robot trust

  *   Human-robot humour

  *   Emotion response mechanism in HRI

  *   Social robotics

  *   Assistive robotics

  *   Affective intelligence in healthcare and elderly care robot

  *   Microexpressions recognition

  *   Robot microexpressions generation

  *   Emotion-driven robot learning

Invited Speakers

  *   Prof. Dana Kulić<https://www.monash.edu/engineering/danakulic> (Monash University, Australia)

  *   Prof. Hatice Gunes<https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/> (University of Cambridge, UK)

  *   Prof. Johnathan Mell<https://jtmell.com/> (University of Central Florida, USA)

  *   Prof. Adriana Tapus <https://perso.ensta-paris.fr/~tapus/eng/> (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, UK)

  *   Prof. Aiguo Song<https://www.seu.edu.cn/english/2019/0322/c11844a266520/page.htm> (Southeast University)

  *   Prof. Xiaofeng Liu<https://jszy.hhu.edu.cn/lxf100_en/> (Hohai University)

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 24 June 2022

Notification of acceptance: 22 July 2022

Camera-ready: 15 Aug 2022

Workshop date: 21 Oct 2022 (TBC)

Submission

Our workshop will accept two types of submission:


  1.  Full papers (6 pages + up to 2 pages of references) which will be presented as oral presentations at the workshop

  2.  Short papers (up to 4 pages including references) which will be presented as posters at the workshop


Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner by the workshop organisers and other workshop members, and each submission will receive 2 to 3 reviews.


Please see the workshop website for the submission process.

Sponsor

Hohai University<https://en.hhu.edu.cn/>, Nanjing, China

UKRI TAS Node on Trust<https://trust.tas.ac.uk/>, UK

Organisers

  *   Dr. Chuang Yu <https://www.chuangyu.me/> (University of Manchester, UK)

  *   Dr. Siyang Song<https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/ss2796> (University of Cambridge, UK)

  *   Dr. Leimin Tian<https://tianleimin.github.io/> (Monash University, Australia)

  *   Dr. Zhao Han<https://zhaohanphd.com/> (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

  *   Prof. Xiaofeng Liu<https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaofeng-liu-39089a58/> (Hohai University, China)

  *   Prof. Aiguo Song<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RjQ5TrEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> (Southeast University, China)

  *   Prof. Adriana Tapus<https://perso.ensta-paris.fr/~tapus/eng/> (Institut Polytechnique of Paris, France)





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Zhao Han, Ph.D.<https://zhaohanphd.com/> (he/him)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Computer Science, Brown Hall, 280M
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
zhaohanphd.com<https://zhaohanphd.com/> | @hanzhao<https://twitter.com/hanzhao> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaohan-robotics/>

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