[agents] [meeting][news][cfp] Call for Paper for the Special Session on "Mental-Models of the Human User in HRI" at RO-MAN_2022
Mariacarla Staffa
mcstaffa at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 06:11:54 EST 2022
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Special Session on Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI*
within the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication
(RO-MAN 2022)
Napoli, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2022
http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/
Special Session code: *ubm34*
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Mental models refer to the internal representations of the individual's
experiences with the external reality. Research shows that such
representations including their cognitive and affective aspects is crucial
for the design of interactive systems as a preeminent approach to improve
their acceptability and their efficacy for the user. This is particularly
important in the case of social robots who are expected to function
autonomously in real-world social scenes.
The holy grail of social robotics is giving the robots the basic
socio-cognitive skills to 1) detect and interpret human mental states as
well as behavioral responses, 2) adapt their behavior according to the
needs and expectations of the human, and 3) show contextually appropriate
affective and social signals in an intelligent and readable way. From the
mastering of such social skills, an effective human-robot interaction can
emerge, suspending the disbelief of human partners, allowing trust,
partnership, and acceptability.
Among the other social skills, the capability to interpret and adapt to
users' mental states could help in solving the mismatch existing between
expectations of robots (often elicited by the robot's appearance) and their
actual capabilities. This mismatch can lead to ambiguous perceptions and
improper interpretation of robot's actions and intentions by negatively
affecting the robot's acceptance. We envision human-aware social
interaction paradigms allowing robots to automatically detect and correct
inaccurate mental states held by users through adaptive behavior.
This special session intends to bring together theories and practices that
will advance social cognition and user awareness in HRI to enrich the
mutual understanding between humans and the robots. This is especially
desirable for socially assistive robots in the context of education,
entertainment and especially in healthcare, where the target user groups
often include vulnerable people (e.g., elderly people or children with
diseases compromising attentional or emotional responses) and acceptability
of the robots is of paramount importance.
Specific attention will be given to the state-of-the-art methods in user
modeling through evaluation of overt (e.g., behavior and speech) and covert
information (e.g. cognitive states and emotional reactions) using tools
such as motion capture, eye-tracking, bio-signals, etc.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Mental models of human users in HRI
· Human-aware perception-action loop
· Affective and emotional HRI
· Empathy and Theory of Mind in Robotics
· Mutual affective understanding
· Internal state monitoring and interpretation
· Detection of non-verbal behavioral cues
· Emotion and intention recognition
· Real-time detection of mental states
· Online adaptive behavior
· Acceptability and personalization
· Physiological monitoring and biofeedback systems
· BCI (brain-computer interfaces)-enabled adaptive interaction with
artificial agents
· Neural outcomes of interaction with robots
· Objective metrics and scales for evaluation of HRI
· Human partnership and trust
This Special Session will target broad research fields including robotics,
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and social psychology. By
putting the user at the center of the design of social HRI interfaces
(including background factors such as gender, age, personality, and
pathology), this special issue brings together recent theoretical and
methodological advances for detecting users' mental states and dispositions
during human-robot interaction.
*IMPORTANT DATES:*
- 15th March 2022: Deadline for paper submission (we will ask for possible
extension to ROMAN2022's PC)
- 30th May 2022: Notification of acceptance for papers
- 15th June 2022: Deadline for camera-ready paper submission
- 28th August – 2nd September 2022: ROMAN-2022 Conference (
http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/)
*SUBMISSION:*
Manuscripts submitted to this special session should be done through the
paper submission website of the main conference: https://ras.papercept.net/
All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same
peer-review procedure as the regular papers. Please refer to the main
conference website to have additional details.
To submit a paper to this Special Session authors should adhere to the
following steps:
· Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ , to create a
PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they
do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs
(this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).
· Go to Support Menu (
http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php ) and depending on
how you are preparing your paper, download a template for US LETTER PAPER
SIZE : LaTeX (http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php ) or US
LETTER PAPER SIZE MS-Word, (
http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php )
· Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF
format.
· Upload the paper: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ and click on
"submit a contribution to Ro-Man 2022".
· Submit *special session paper*
· *Make sure to insert the code of the Special Session: ubm34*
· Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all
author PINs created in Step 1).
We look forward to welcoming you soon in Naples!
Sincerely Yours,
Special Session Organizing Committee:
*Mariacarla Staffa*, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, (e-mail:
mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it)
*Maryam Alimardani*, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (e-mail:
M.Alimardani at tilburguniversity.edu)
*Salvatore Maria Anzalone* Paris 8 University, France (e-mail:
sanzalone at univ-paris8.fr)
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Il giorno gio 3 feb 2022 alle ore 17:13 Mariacarla Staffa <
mcstaffa at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> =================================================================
>
> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
> *Special Session on Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI*
>
> within the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human
> Interactive Communication
>
> (RO-MAN 2022)
>
> Napoli, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2022
>
> http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/accepted-special-sessions/
>
> Special Session code: *ubm34*
>
>
> =================================================================
>
> Mental models refer to the internal representations of the individual's
> experiences with the external reality. Research shows that such
> representations including their cognitive and affective aspects is crucial
> for the design of interactive systems as a preeminent approach to improve
> their acceptability and their efficacy for the user. This is particularly
> important in the case of social robots who are expected to function
> autonomously in real-world social scenes.
>
>
>
> The holy grail of social robotics is giving the robots the basic
> socio-cognitive skills to 1) detect and interpret human mental states as
> well as behavioral responses, 2) adapt their behavior according to the
> needs and expectations of the human, and 3) show contextually appropriate
> affective and social signals in an intelligent and readable way. From the
> mastering of such social skills, an effective human-robot interaction can
> emerge, suspending the disbelief of human partners, allowing trust,
> partnership, and acceptability.
>
>
>
> Among the other social skills, the capability to interpret and adapt to
> users' mental states could help in solving the mismatch existing between
> expectations of robots (often elicited by the robot's appearance) and their
> actual capabilities. This mismatch can lead to ambiguous perceptions and
> improper interpretation of robot's actions and intentions by negatively
> affecting the robot's acceptance. We envision human-aware social
> interaction paradigms allowing robots to automatically detect and correct
> inaccurate mental states held by users through adaptive behavior.
>
>
>
> This special session intends to bring together theories and practices that
> will advance social cognition and user awareness in HRI to enrich the
> mutual understanding between humans and the robots. This is especially
> desirable for socially assistive robots in the context of education,
> entertainment and especially in healthcare, where the target user groups
> often include vulnerable people (e.g., elderly people or children with
> diseases compromising attentional or emotional responses) and acceptability
> of the robots is of paramount importance.
>
>
>
> Specific attention will be given to the state-of-the-art methods in user
> modeling through evaluation of overt (e.g., behavior and speech) and covert
> information (e.g. cognitive states and emotional reactions) using tools
> such as motion capture, eye-tracking, bio-signals, etc.
>
>
>
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
> · Mental models of human users in HRI
>
> · Human-aware perception-action loop
>
> · Affective and emotional HRI
>
> · Empathy and Theory of Mind in Robotics
>
> · Mutual affective understanding
>
> · Internal state monitoring and interpretation
>
> · Detection of non-verbal behavioral cues
>
> · Emotion and intention recognition
>
> · Real-time detection of mental states
>
> · Online adaptive behavior
>
> · Acceptability and personalization
>
> · Physiological monitoring and biofeedback systems
>
> · BCI (brain-computer interfaces)-enabled adaptive interaction with
> artificial agents
>
> · Neural outcomes of interaction with robots
>
> · Objective metrics and scales for evaluation of HRI
>
> · Human partnership and trust
>
>
>
> This Special Session will target broad research fields including robotics,
> artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and social psychology. By
> putting the user at the center of the design of social HRI interfaces
> (including background factors such as gender, age, personality, and
> pathology), this special issue brings together recent theoretical and
> methodological advances for detecting users' mental states and dispositions
> during human-robot interaction.
>
>
>
> *IMPORTANT DATES:*
> - 15th March 2022: Deadline for paper submission
> - 30th May 2022: Notification of acceptance for papers
> - 15th June 2022: Deadline for camera-ready paper submission
> - 28th August – 2nd September 2022: ROMAN-2022 Conference (
> http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/)
>
>
>
> *SUBMISSION:*
> Manuscripts submitted to this special session should be done through the
> paper submission website of the main conference:
> https://ras.papercept.net/
> All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same
> peer-review procedure as the regular papers. Please refer to the main
> conference website to have additional details.
>
> To submit a paper to this Special Session authors should adhere to the
> following steps:
>
> · Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ , to create a
> PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they
> do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs
> (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).
>
> · Go to Support Menu (
> http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php ) and depending
> on how you are preparing your paper, download a template for US LETTER
> PAPER SIZE : LaTeX (http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php )
> or US LETTER PAPER SIZE MS-Word, (
> http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php )
>
> · Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in
> PDF format.
>
> · Upload the paper: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ and click on
> "submit a contribution to Ro-Man 2022".
>
> · Submit *special session paper*
>
> · *Make sure to insert the code of the Special Session: ubm34*
>
> · Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter
> all author PINs created in Step 1).
>
>
>
> We look forward to welcoming you soon in Naples!
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Special Session Organizing Committee:
>
> *Mariacarla Staffa*, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, (e-mail:
> mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it)
>
> *Maryam Alimardani*, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (e-mail:
> M.Alimardani at tilburguniversity.edu)
>
> *Salvatore Maria Anzalone* Paris 8 University, France (e-mail:
> sanzalone at univ-paris8.fr)
> =================================================================
>
>
>
> *Mariacarla Staffa, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Science and
> Technologies*
> *University of Naples "Parthenope"*
> *address: Centro Direzionale, Isola C, 4° Piano, Lato Nord, Stanza 428,
> 80143, Napoli*
>
> *tel: 081-5476580institutional e-mail: mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it
> <mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it>*
>
>
--
*Mariacarla Staffa, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Science and
Technologies*
*University of Naples "Parthenope"*
*address: Centro Direzionale, Isola C, 4° Piano, Lato Nord, Stanza 428,
80143, Napoli*
*tel: 081-5476580institutional e-mail: mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it
<mariacarla.staffa at uniparthenope.it>*
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