Due to multiple requests, the deadline for submissions to ICSR 2013 WS
on "Taking Care of Each Other: Synchronisation and Reciprocity for
Social Companion Robots" has been extended to August 31st 2013
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Call for Position Statements
ICSR 2013: full-day workshop on Taking Care of Each Other:
Synchronisation and Reciprocity for Social Companion Robots
Deadline: 31.08.2013
http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/specialsession.php#Workshop3
27 October 2013, Bristol, UK
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Recent studies of compassion argue that in human-human interaction
actual compassion exists, which is not inherently motivated by
self-interest. This research suggests that compassion is based on
reciprocity and synchronisation and is rooted in our brain and biology
as well as in our socialisation and culture. In a nutshell compassion
can be considered as one of the building blocks for sociality. When we
are developing robots as companions we have to wonder in how far we can
integrate synchronisation and reciprocity in our systems in order to
achieve a perceived compassionateness, which leads to mutual care
between the user and the robot, as this fosters a sustainable long-term
interaction with the system accompanying the user.
Companion robots are considered for various application areas, such as
school education, elderly care, therapy etc. and in all these contexts
we are aware that a give-and-take relationship can be crucial for the
success of the individual. Therefore, companion robots must communicate
a feeling of social coupling, relate to the human counterpart, share
perceptions and intentions and thereby achieve synchronized and
reciprocal behaviour to be considered an actual companion.
Addressing these aspects demands joint effort from the HRI community of
various disciplinary backgrounds, such as amongst others cognitive
sciences, sociology, and social/ behaviour-based robotics. We believe
that this workshop can offer the space to discuss companionship in/for
robotics as an interaction pattern of give-and-take and create the
much-needed interdisciplinary network to explore this unifying social
HRI theme.
***Submissions***
Potential participants are invited to submit a position statement. The
position statement (min 800 words, but no longer than 4 A4 pages in
Springer LNCS format) can be on the following potential (but not
restricted) topics:
Companion robots
Household companion robots
Elderly care companion robots
Companion robots for therapy
Companion robots for education
Synchronicity
Joint attention
Joint action
Action observation and imitation
Reciprocity
Perceived intentionality
Human-robot relationship
Social acceptance of robots
Submissions are accepted in PDF format only, using the ICSR formatting
guidelines (http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php) and including author
names. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors should send their
papers to [log in to unmask]
Important Dates
31 August 2013, Position statement submission
20 September 2013, Notification of acceptance
27 October 2013, Workshop at ICSR 2013
Organizing Committee
• Astrid Weiss (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Tamara Lorenz (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany)
• Ben Robins (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
• Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Markus Vincze (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
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Dr. Astrid Weiss
HRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ACIN Insitute of Automation and Control
Vienna University of Technology
(DVR-Number 0005886)
Gusshausstraße 27-29/E376,
1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 (1) 58801-376 618
Fax: +43 (1) 58801-376 97
Email:[log in to unmask]
http://astridweiss.wordpress.com/
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