*RO-MAN 2014 - call for special sessions - deadline extended to January 24th* We are inviting proposals for special sessions relevant to the themes of IEEE RO-MAN 2014 (http://rehabilitationrobotics.net/ro-man14/). RO-MAN addresses fundamental issues of co-existence of human and intelligent machines such as robots and recent advancements of technological as well as psychological researches on every aspect of interactive communication and collaboration between robots and humans (http://ro-man.org/). A special session consists of a collection of papers with a common theme. Please submit a pdf to the special session chairs Ben Robins and Ginevra Castellano ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) as soon as possible but not later than the 24th of January 2014, including the following: - Proposed title of the special session - Motivation and goals of the session (a brief 2-3 paragraph summary) - A list of possible papers with contributing authors and tentative titles and abstracts - List of organisers (including short bio) Selected special sessions will be advertised, meaning that everyone is welcome to submit to it, in addition to the authors identified in the proposals. Special sessions' papers will be submitted via the main conference's submission system following the same guidelines as the regular papers, will be peer-reviewed and will appear in the conference proceedings. If accepted, the organisers of the special session will be responsible for the high-quality peer-review of the submitted papers according to IEEE standards (3 anonymous peer-reviews). -- Dr. Ginevra Castellano School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7118 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/castellg/ --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------