[agents] [meetings][CFP] RO-MAN 2023 - Special Session "To err is robotic: Understanding, preventing and resolving robots' failures in HRI"

[Alessandra Rossi]

*Apologies for any cross-posting*

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to the Special Session called *To err is
robotic: Understanding, preventing and resolving robots' failures in HRI *(
code u3f1h)*.*

This special session welcomes works: 1) focusing on how people from
perceive robot's failures in short- and long-term interactions, and
highlight how different failures influence their perceptions and emotions
toward the robots, and 2) exploring different techniques (e.g. inner
speech, predictability and transparency of robotic behaviours, Theory of
Mind, robot etiquette, Verification Methods, explanations) can foster a natural
human-robot communication to reduce the perception of failures and/or help
people understand the implications, risks, and goals of robot behaviour.

This Special Session is organised within the 32nd IEEE International
Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2023)
will be held at Paradise Hotel in Busan, South Korea from August 28 to 31,
2023.

Please find attached the full call for papers for the Special Session "*To
err is robotic: Understanding, preventing and resolving robots' failures in
HRI*".

Kindest regards

Alessandra Rossi, Kheng Lee Koay, Kerstin S. Haring


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SPECIAL SESSION

To err is robotic: Understanding, preventing and resolving robots' failures
in HRI

Code u3f1h

Robots placed in human-oriented dynamic environments, such as private
homes, shopping malls, healthcare facilities, are likely to exhibit
occasional behaviours which are perceived by people as unexpected,
failures, or actual errors. Robots' errors can negatively affect people's
perception of the robotic behaviours, in terms of usefulness,
functionalities and capabilities, trustworthiness and acceptability.
Robotics errors and how these are perceived by people do not only depend on
robot self, but they are also a consequence of other factors. For example,
they may be a consequence of human errors, or an unclear and
non-transparent communication, or they may depend on a misunderstanding and
miscommunication of the social, psychological and cognitive conventions
expected by people. Moreover, there are also some cases in which these
behaviours may be perceived as if robots intentionally deceive or cheat
people. As a consequence, these may result in people wrongly interpreting
and predicting the robots’ intents and behaviours, and negatively affecting
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

This session will focus on examine how people from perceive robot's
failures in short- and long-term interactions, and highlight how different
failures influence their perceptions and emotions toward the robots.

This will help with subject related to classifying of robot errors from the
aspect of human (e.g. intentional, voluntarily, perceived vs. real errors
-- recklessness, forgetfulness, poor motivation --)  and robot dimensions
(e.g. actual error - algorithms, sensors, actuators). Moreover, while
dealing with robotic failures, it is fundamental to consider two different
strategies. The first one is oriented to prevent robots from exhibiting
unintended behaviours, which in some extreme cases may even endanger
people’s, pets’ safety, or break objects. Some examples are meant to enable
robots to adapt and recover from any erroneous behaviour, such as the use
of Software Verification Methods, Theory of Mind, robot etiquette. Others
are focused on mitigating the effects of robot errors with apologies,
promises or creating transparent robotic behaviours.

This session will explore how different techniques can be used to enhancing
natural human-robot communication (such as inner speech, legibility,
predictability and transparency of robotic behaviours, explicit and
non-explicit strategies) to help people understand the implications, risks,
and goals of robots' behaviours and to mitigate the perception of the
failures. In this session, we also want to explore strategies both to
prevent robots from exhibiting unintended behaviours, and to mitigate the
effects of robot errors on human-robot interaction.

The topics covered in this special session are in line with the main theme
of the conference (i.e., “Design New Bridge for H-R-I”). In particular, we
want to start by fostering the [R] Robotic Recovery and Reconnection to
allow [I] Intelligent Interface and Interaction for the [H] Human Health,
Happiness and Hope. Notably, accepted topics include, but are not limited
to:

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   Explainable AI (XAI) in HRI
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   Multi-modal situation awareness and spatial cognition
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   Social intelligence for robots in interactive and non-interactive tasks
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   Verifications Methods for autonomous agents
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   Legibility, Predictability and Transparency in HRI
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   Cognitive robotics
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   Deception in HRI
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   Robot cheating in HRI
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   Theory of Mind, Mental models in HRI
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   Robot etiquette
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   Modelling Trust and Acceptance in HRI


Important Dates

All dates are in UTC Time Standard

Initial Paper Submission Deadline: March 17, 2023

Notification of Acceptance: May 26, 2023

Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2023

How to submit

Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via the
Papercept submission site. For the initial submission, a manuscript can be
of 6-8 pages including references. For the final submission, a manuscript
should be of 6 pages, With 2 additional pages allowed with an extra charge
(TBA). All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process.

All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors
declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to
see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors
receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.

Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic submission
system. The templates for US Letter format paper should be used. Please use
the following templates:

Templates: LaTeX <https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or
MSWord <https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>

Papers should be submitted on http://ras.papercept.net/ under the "Submit a
contribution to RO-MAN 2023", by selecting special session paper, and use
the code: u3f1h

Do not forget the code and to select the special session paper.

Organisers

Dr. Alessandra Rossi - University of Naples Federico II, Italy -
alessandra.rossi at unina.it

Kheng Lee Koay - University of Hertfordshire, UK - k.l.koay at herts.ac.uk

Kerstin Sophie Haring - University of Denver, USA - b.d.researcher at ieee.org

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us!
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