[agents] [CFP] AVI 2024’s workshop Robots For Humans (R4H) - Embracing Human-Centred Robot Design– 3rd or 4th June 2024

[Eleonora Zedda]

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop Robots for Humans (R4H)

Co-located within the 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual 
Interfaces (AVI2024)

Arenzano (Genoa), Italy

June 3rd or 4th 2024

Workshop website: https://r4h-workshop.github.io/

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  AIMS AND SCOPE

The "Robots for Humans" (R4H) workshop bridges the Human-Computer 
Interaction (HCI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) communities.

With this workshop, we want to bring together these communities by 
highlighting the commonalities of the two, stressing their differences, 
and encouraging the contamination of their methods and results. We aim 
to do so by recognising that human beings can be the bridge between 
these two communities and the main objective for a human-centred design 
approach.

With these reflections in mind, our workshop invites HCI and HRI 
researchers to develop proposals for theoretical, technical and design 
ideas that highlight thoughts on empowerment and the new challenges 
posed by the design of robots. We ask researchers to propose both 
perspectives: the utopian, which imagines ideal scenarios, and the 
dystopian, which explores potential challenges, reflecting on the role 
of artefact design and interaction in shaping these visions.

Join us to explore the intricate bond between humans and robots for 
thoughtful HRI advancements.

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  TOPICS



Topics included in the workshop, but not limited to, are the following:

HCI theories and methods and novel approaches applied to HRI, Cognitive 
Architectures for HRI.

Concept papers on the role of technology and robots in empowering or 
challenging human well-being.

Empirical studies for human empowerment with technology (e.g., SAR, 
Health care, educational context).

Participatory design approaches for HRI applications (e.g., user-centred 
design for computer and robotic applications, human-centred, and 
interaction-based design)

Research methods and challenges for different contexts (e.g., assistive 
and education) in the HRI field.

Interaction with virtual or physical embodied agents, human factors and 
human-in-the-loop in HRI, group dynamics in HRI.

Design relationship between humans and robots (multi-modal 
communication, robot personalities, gender robotics, empathy).

Diversity, power dynamics, gender, racism, social stereotypes and 
vulnerable targets of users in HRI.

Trust, acceptance and explainability in HRI; personalisation and 
end-user development of robot applications.

Ethical issues (e.g. privacy, misuse and abusive interactions), social 
risks and fairness in HRI.



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ORGANISATION AND DURATION



We plan to conduct a half-day workshop including the following activities:

Welcome and opening (10 min.).

Keynote speaker: Dr Giulia Perugia (confirmed) (30 min.) and Q&A (10 min.).

Papers/Poster presentations (1.15 min.).

Coffee Break (15 min).

Focus groups (60 min.) moderated by Dr Carlo Mazzola.

Closing remarks (15 min.).

The workshop is planned to be in-person.

Participants will propose discussion topics for a focus group session in 
the workshop's second part.

Led by moderators, subgroups will facilitate idea exchange in designing 
HRI applications.

Participants will then identify the most significant topics for the 
workshop at the session's conclusion.

  AVI workshops are scheduled for either the 3rd or 4th of June, 2024. 
Please check back the workshop website soon for the exact dates and 
scheduling information.



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SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION CRITERIA



Workshop participants are invited to submit a position papers (max 6 
pages excluding references)

The accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings on 
CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by Scopus.

All submissions should be submitted by mail to r4hworkshop at gmail.com in 
PDF format using the “CEUR Template”: 
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX 
users is also available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt

All submissions will be subjected to a thorough peer-review process, 
focusing on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance.

The workshop will use a double-blind review process, with three members 
of the program committee reviewing each submitted paper.


Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be 
required to attend the workshop.

  Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a 
Special Issue of a relevant human-robot interaction journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES


Submission Deadline: 27 March

Notification of Acceptance: 23 April

Camera Ready: 03 May 2024

Registration deadline: 10 May 2024



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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS



Francesca Cocchella, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

Omar Eldardeer, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

Marco Manca, Institute of Information Science and Technologies 
"Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR)  
(Italy)

Marco Matarese, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bolzano (Italy)

Eleonora Zedda, Institute of Information Science and Technologies 
"Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR)  
(Italy)
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