*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/


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