[agents] CFP : 1st Workshop on Closeness with Robots as Social Partners : HRI 2019 : Daegu Korea

[M. Birna van Riemsdijk]

1st Workshop on Closeness with Robots as Social Partners

Held in conjunction with HRI 2019 Conference in Daegu, South Korea

 

https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/ <https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/>
 
Time: March 11th, 2019 from 13:30 – 17:30

 

Important Dates:

Extended to February 22nd, 2019 (11:59 PM PT): Submission deadline

Monday Feb 18th, 2019: Notification of acceptance

Thursday Feb 28th, 2019: Camera-ready deadline

 

What to Submit: 2 to 4 pages written abstract, or video, or audio clip, or demo

 

HRI researchers have explored how people behave toward technology agents, advancing the concept that people can attain “closeness” with technology itself in addition to a living social partner. Yet the topic of closeness with robots has not been fully explored or organized into a discrete area of study. This seems particularly important as people’s social connections change, new social signal processing technologies emerge and new embodied media afford agents novel interactions including reciprocal social touch. This workshop is a forum to discuss the future of “closeness” with robots, conversational agents, autonomous vehicles, Internet of Things devices and other technologies that act as social partners—designs, long-term relationships, applications, societal concerns. This half-day workshop’s focus is closeness with robots, but the range of technologies, roles and effects of closeness is broad.

 

We invite participants to join the HRI workshop “Closeness with Robots”. Topics include:

 

Psychological closeness with robots
Physical closeness and touch
Emotional closeness
Design of socially-expressive robots or agents
Theater or performing arts methods to help design agents people feel close to
Long-term interaction
Anthropomorphism
Human Vulnerabilities in relation to robots as social partners
Case studies of useful applications of closeness
Special populations’ closeness with technology
Social acceptability of closeness
 

Organizers:

Jamy Li (Twente), David Sirkin (Stanford), Jan van Erp (Twente), Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft)

 

Website: https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/ <https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/>
 

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Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk - Intimate Computing
associate professor Interactive Intelligence, TU Delft
guest researcher Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
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