[AISWorld] Call for Papers : Inclusive HRI - Special Session at RO-MAN 2021

[Shruti Chandra]

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Inclusive HRI - Special Session at RO-MAN 2021

August 8-12, 2021 -- Virtual

Website: <https://ro-man2021.org/callforpapers/>
https://ro-man2021.org/full-papers/

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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

- Paper Submission: March 21, 2021 (regular paper submission deadline)

- Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2021

- Camera ready papers due: June 20, 2021

- Conference: August 8-12, 2021


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*** OVERVIEW ***

How can we improve robots' capacity to interact successfully with all
segments of the population? How can we prevent the implicit transfer of our
bias into robots while designing interactions and related artificial
intelligence software? Interactive robots are being deployed into homes,
schools, shopping malls, hospitals, and retirement homes worldwide. Many of
these robots use perception systems to recognize aspects of a user, and
algorithmic bias can result in varying levels of interaction success,
depending on race, culture, age, gender and other factors. Roboticists, in
particular, burdened with real-time constraints and integration of many
different skills onto one robot, often still use off-the-shelf solutions,
which work with limited populations and situations. This special session on
Inclusive HRI highlights the opportunity for roboticists to study the
limitations and opportunities for inclusive HRI and build new perception,
design and interaction techniques, towards robots capable of handling
real-life, diverse populations.

We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer
science, psychology, robotics, neuroscience, cognitive science, and others,
on topics including, but not limited to:


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   Cross-cultural or culture-inclusive HRI
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   Gender and HRI
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   Ethnicity and HRI
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   Age-inclusive HRI
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   HRI for people with disabilities
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   Inclusive perception, e.g. computer vision, speech recognition
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   Algorithmic bias in HRI
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   Transparency for inclusive HRI
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   Roboethics



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*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***

Authors should follow the regular paper guidelines for RO-MAN
<http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, and during
submission select "Inclusive HRI" for consideration in this Special Session
category.

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***REVIEW and PUBLICATION***

Papers submitted to special sessions will undergo the same review process
as the main conference submissions <https://ro-man2021.org/full-papers/>
and will appear in the main conference proceedings.

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***CONTACT***

For any questions, please contact the Inclusion @ HRI organisers Angelica
Lim (angelica at sfu.ca) and June Kang (june.kang at empathy-research.org)

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***ORGANIZING COMMITTEE***

Angelica Lim, Simon Fraser University

June Kang, Korea University

Janderson Borges, Polytechnic University of Pernambuco

Shruti Chandra, University of Waterloo