[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2023 Human-Robot Interactions Mini-track

[Sangseok You]

**Deadline March 1, 2023 (Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST)**

Mini-track Title: Human-Robot Interactions

Research Track: Cognitive Research in IS (SIG CORE)

AMCIS 2023, Panama City, Panama

August 10-12, 2023

**New this year – we will accept papers for in-person presentations as well as papers for virtual presentations. We still anticipate a strong in-person set of papers and vibrant experience, but we also want to encourage you to submit your best work even if you already know that you will not be able to be physically present. Authors of accepted virtual presentation papers will be provided with an asynchronous platform for their work.

Deadline March 1, 2023 (Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST)

Robots are increasingly being adopted in private and public spaces, leading to a proliferation of human‒robot interactions in the home, workplace, and other public settings. Robots in the home are performing household chores and acting as home companions and home health care providers. Robots at work are fulfilling traditional human roles in logistics, transportation, and manufacturing, serving as both co-workers and supervisors. Robots are also being utilized as tour guides, janitors, and security officers in public spaces such as museums and airports. Although these interactions are often collaborative, they are by no means always cooperative.

Robot interactions with humans across this array of roles and settings pose interesting questions to scholars in various fields such as information systems, robotics, psychology, and sociology. Interaction with robots is distinct from that with other artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies in that robots have a physical body that allows them to manifest physical actions. People cannot only talk to robots but also touch and be touched by robots. This distinguishes interactions with robots from interactions with disembodied AI agents, such as voice agents like Siri by Apple and Alexa by Amazon. Thus, research on human‒robot interaction can differ significantly from that of human interaction with disembodied AI agents.

The mini-track welcomes research papers that explore human‒robot interaction and robot design at any level (i.e., individual, team, organizational, and societal). This mini-track also covers human‒robot interaction as much as possible beyond the notion of "robots as teammates.” Thus, we encourage submissions that examine many facets of interactions in any context (e.g., homes, work, and public services) and role (e.g., companion, co-worker, boss, and adversary).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Promoting cooperative and collaborative interaction with robots
Examining uncooperative and adversarial human interactions with robots
The role of adoption and appropriation in human‒robot interactions
Empirical studies examining the cognitive, psychological, emotional, and social aspects of human‒robot interactions
The impact of haptic feedback and touch on human‒robot interaction
The role of robot attractiveness on human‒robot interaction
Ethics on human‒robot interactions
Social-emotional models of human‒robot interaction
Theoretical frameworks for human‒robot interaction
Case studies of human‒robot interaction
Design implications for robot interactions at home, work, and public spaces
Human-oriented practices that promote human‒robot interactions
New methodological approaches to studying human‒robot interactions
Important Dates:

January 6, 2023: Manuscript submissions begin
March 1, 2023: Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST
May 9, 2023: TREOs, PDS and Workshops, and Panels submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST
Mini-track Co-Chairs:

Sangseok You, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), sangyou at skku.edu <mailto:sangyou at skku.edu>
Lionel Robert, University of Michigan, lprobert at umich.edu <mailto:lprobert at umich.edu>