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"Ross Mead (USC)" <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:20:23 -0800
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*** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***

Due to the multiple requests, the paper submission deadline for the
HRI-2018 workshop on “Social Robots in the Wild” has been extended to next
Friday, January 26.  Details are below.

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HRI-2018 Workshop -- Social Robots in the Wild

March 5, 2018 -- Chicago, IL, USA

Website: http://socialrobotsinthewild.org

Contact: [log in to unmask]

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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

- Paper Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 (extensions available upon
request)

- Acceptance Notifications: February 9, 2018

- Camera-ready Deadline: February 23, 2018

- Workshop: March 5, 2018

*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***

- Ross Mead, Semio (formerly, USC)

- Daniel H Grollman, Misty Robotics (formerly, Brown University)

- Cynthia Yeung, SoftBank Robotics America (formerly, UPenn)

- Andrew Stout, Jibo (formerly, UMass Amherst)

- Angelica Lim, Simon Fraser University (formerly, SoftBank Robotics Europe)

- Brad Knox, Dash Robotics / Bots Alive (formerly, MIT)

*** OVERVIEW ***

The objective of this workshop is to bring to light issues surrounding the
practical challenges of deploying social robots “in the wild”.

Affordable, mass-produced, autonomous robots are now being deployed and
interacting with the general public in homes, stores, hotels, and other
facilities around the world. Transitioning these social robots and the
theories they represent from academic research to commercial product is
fraught with practical challenges that must be overcome, and rich in new
discoveries and research directions.

With organizers who straddle the commercial/academic divide, this workshop
will focus on the state of social robots in the wild today by bringing
together leaders in both academic and commercial social robotics to foster
conversation and collaboration. These communities have information to share
with each other to help them improve the research being conducted and the
products being offered. Panels and presentations will discuss lessons
learned as well as highlight what can be expected in the near term. A
hands-on interactive session will showcase cutting-edge technology from the
academic research community, as well as the state-of-the-industry in
mass-consumable social robots today.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Best practices and lessons learned from deploying social robots in the
wild

- Design principles for commercial social robots

- Highly accurate and robust perception of humans and environment for
social robots

- Datasets applicable to HRI in the wild

- Achieving long-term interaction with social robots

- Personalization and memory for social robots

- Software architectures to support long-term interaction and scalability

- Acceptance of social robots in the home and in public spaces

- Training of casual users for use of social robots

- Scalability issues in social robotics deployment

- Developer APIs, platforms and communities for social robotics

- Hardware for robust, affordable social robot deployment and maintenance

- Needed areas of research to support adoption of commercial social robotics

*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***

We invite short papers of 2-4 pages (plus additional pages for references
and appendices), including technical reports, case studies, and
state-of-the-art research highlighting its applicability and readiness
level to social robots in the field today. All accepted papers will be
published online on the workshop website.

All papers must be written in English and submitted electronically as a US
letter-sized (8.5” x 11”) PDF format. The workshop review process is single
blind; submissions should NOT be anonymized. Supplementary materials (such
as videos) can be uploaded, or external links to videos and supplementary
material are also allowed in your paper.

- SUBMISSION SITE: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hrisrw2018

- PREPARATION GUIDELINES:
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

- LATEX TEMPLATE: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php

- MS WORD TEMPLATE: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php

- OVERLEAF TEMPLATE:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-new-master-template/pnrfvrrdbfwt

*** PLANNED ACTIVITIES ***

- PANELS: Invited panelists will speak to issues facing social robots in
the wild today, including lessons learned and needed developments.
Moderated discussions will encourage collaborative discussion between
academic and commercial participants.

- PRESENTATIONS: Oral presentations of accepted submissions. Presenters are
strongly encouraged to demonstrate their work in the interactive session to
show effectiveness “in the wild”.

- INTERACTIVE SESSION: Participants selected for poster presentations be
given poster space to showcase their work. Demonstrations of robots and/or
software are highly encouraged, with a hands-on component to show
effectiveness “in the wild”.

- NETWORKING: A large part of this effort is to bring together a community
of commercial robotics professionals and researchers, to strengthen old
connections, and build new ones. Ample time will be provided for networking
and informal discussions.

*** INVITED SPEAKERS ***

The workshop will feature exciting speakers and panelists from both
academia and industry, including those who have bridged the gap between
both. Stay tuned for announcements on invited speakers!

*** MORE INFO ***

For more information, please visit http://socialrobotsinthewild.org or
contact the Workshop Submission Chairs, Ross Mead and Angelica Lim, at
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- Ross

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