[agents] [CFP] IEEE RO-MAN 2024 Special Session on “Human Modeling for Adaptive Interactions and Robot Autonomy”

Alessandro Umbrico umbrico.alessandro at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 12:22:58 EST 2024 

[Apologies for multiple posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE RO-MAN 2024 Special Session on “Human Modeling for Adaptive 
Interactions and Robot Autonomy”

Important Information:

     Paper submission deadline: March 10th, 2024

     Code of the special session: 248v8

     Submissions should be made through the IEEE RO-MAN conference site 
on PaperCept: https://ras.papercept.net/

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Aim

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The growing reliability, efficiency, and computational capabilities of 
robotic platforms are pushing the design of innovative services that see 
robots acting and interacting with humans in both common-life and 
working scenarios. The effective use of robots in ecological 
environments is strictly connected to the capability of synthesizing 
safe and socially compliant robot behaviors as well as the skills, 
expectations, and needs of the humans they act or interact with. It is 
an emerging necessity to create human-mediated systems where a robot 
executes interactive or productive tasks autonomously under the human’s 
supervision, possibly requiring the (occasional) intervention of users. 
Human knowledge is expected to directly (e.g., through shared control 
and shared autonomy) or indirectly (e.g., through requisite 
specification) guide robot autonomy to realize behaviors that are in 
line with the desired domain objectives, safe and acceptable by involved 
human users. Furthermore, robots need models of behavioral dynamics, 
mental states, expectations, and intentions of humans to realize smooth 
and acceptable interactions by tailoring their general skills to the 
specific needs and features of users and social contexts. The design of 
effective models capable of characterizing physical, cognitive, and 
behavioral features of humans, and combining them with the control and 
interacting strategies of robots still pose open research challenges. In 
this respect, research should investigate novel technologies, and 
methodologies facilitating communication, and sharing knowledge among 
the different stakeholders (e.g., roboticists, psychologists, cognitive 
scientists, domain experts, and end-users). This special session, 
therefore, aims at fostering the dialogue among the different 
stakeholders involved in the design and deployment of novel 
human-mediated and socially aware robots with particular attention to 
the following topics: a) co-design and definition of requirements; b) 
modeling of human cognition and physical states as well as social 
dynamics; c) metrics and benchmarks to evaluate acceptability and 
efficacy of human-robot interactions; d) ethical regulations; e) hybrid 
approaches to improve legibility of robot behaviors and communication 
with humans in general. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the 
proposed Special Session and the scientific, technological, and ethical 
impact of such emerging human-robot interaction paradigms, it perfectly 
fits with the audience of RO-MAN and with the theme of the current 
edition focusing on Human-Centered HRI

Topics of interest (but not limited to)

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Here is a list of (some) relevant topics for the special session:o

     Adaptive and Personalized Interaction with Human

     Models of human behaviors, skills, and cognition, contextualized to 
Human-Robot Interaction

     Methods and Protocols for Safe and effective robot autonomy in 
human-centered studies, including semi-autonomous approaches (e.g., 
shared control, shared autonomy)

     Metrics for assessing custom human-robot interaction (e.g., based 
on the users’ preference, culture, and attitude, but not limited to)

     Metrics to evaluate the acceptance and social compliance of 
semi-autonomous robot behaviors

     Situation awareness and human intention recognition

     Social navigation

     Human-Aware Robot Behaviors

     Theory of Mind and Cognitive Theories Applied to Robotics

Instructions for authors

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Papers submitted to the special sessions will undergo the same review 
process as the regular papers and will appear in the main conference 
proceedings if accepted.

Submissions should be made through the IEEE RO-MAN conference website on 
PaperCept: https://ras.papercept.net/.

Authors should specify the code of the special session when submitting 
their contributions (248v8).

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.

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 or MSWord

Please refer to the call for papers of the conference for additional 
instructions about the length and the formatting style: 
https://www.ro-man2024.org/

Special Session code: 248v8

Paper Submission: March 10, 2024

Conference: August 26-30, 2024

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

Organizers

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     Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS, France

     Gloria Beraldo, CNR-ISTC, Italy

     Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR-ISTC, Italy

     Francesca Fracasso, CNR-ISTC, Italy

     Alessandra Sciutti, IIT, Italy

     Phani Teja Singamaneni, LAAS-CNRS, France

     Alessandro Umbrico, CNR-ISTC, Italy

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