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<div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions </b></div>
<span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>ACM</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>PETRA
Conference (June 26 - 29), Corfu Island Greece</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Paper Submission: </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Mar 02,
2018</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>
</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Paper Notification: </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Mar 19, 2018</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>
</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Camera-Ready Paper: </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Mar 30, 2018</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">(including
references) </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">and follow the SIGCHI format: </span></font><a href="https://sigchi.org/templates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk452073" previewremoved="true"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">https://sigchi.org/templates/</span></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
All accepted submissions will be integrated in the ACM Digital Library.</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Background, Best Paper Awards and Springer Book</span></font></b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">This workshop is co-funded by AGYA, the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The best paper will receive
an award of € 1.000. The best student paper will receive an award of € 300. We aim to create extended versions of the best workshop papers, which are to become chapters in a Springer book with publication aimed for 2019. These articles will be proofread and
all contributors will receive a small award. </span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Topics & Motivation</span></font></b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces but also follow us into much more personal settings
like home and health care. <span tabindex="0" class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-border-color-neutralTertiary ident_1464_1568 ms-bg-color-neutralLighter" id="KP1">Does this imply that social robots should be able to interpret and adequately respond to
human emotions?</span> <span tabindex="0" class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-border-color-neutralTertiary ms-bg-color-neutralLighter ident_1569_1599" id="KP2">Should they simulate emotions?</span></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">The workshop aims to cover the phenomenon of social robots from the historic roots over today’s best practices to future
perspectives. Thus, it is interdisciplinary, welcoming contributions not only computer scientists but also researchers from other disciplines like psychology, medicine, law, history, and the arts and humanities.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">For developments like robots in health care and domestic areas, we will discuss both the technological and the ethical
challenges arising. The aim is to create a guideline, an intended design space for future developments in social robotics. </span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">A long version of the call can be found under:</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><a href="http://affective-lab.org/social-robots-a-workshop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk178112" previewremoved="true"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://affective-lab.org/social-robots-a-workshop/</span></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </span></font></span></font></div>
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<li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human-Robot-Interaction</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Social Robots in various Use Cases (e.g. domestic, health)</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">User Studies with Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Societal Acceptance and Rejection of Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Artificial Intelligence and Embodied Agents</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="windowtext"><span style="font-size:10pt">Data management and Data Privacy Issues</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Autonomous Navigation and Locomotion</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Robotic Simulationư, Artificial Emotion Simulation Techniques</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Human Affective Behavior</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Natural Language Processing for Human-Robot-Interaction</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Multi-source Data Fusion Methods for Interaction</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">History of Robots and Automata</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Best (and Worst) Practices of Today’s Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Legal Perspectives on Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Design Space for the Development of Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Ethical Guidelines for the Development of Social Robots</span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Lessons Learned from National or International Projects on Social Robots </span></font></span></font></li></ul>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Workshop-Organizers</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt"><b>Oliver Korn</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt">, </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt">Offenburg
University </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><a href="mailto:oliver.korn@acm.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="de">oliver.korn@acm.org</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Gerald Bieber</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Fraunhofer
Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><a href="mailto:gerald.bieber@igd-r.fraunhofer.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">gerald.bieber@igd-r.fraunhofer.de</font></span></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Christian Fron</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:10pt">, </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">University
of Heidelberg</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><a href="mailto:christian.fron@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="mailto:christian.fron@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de
Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">christian.fron@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de</span></font></a><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12pt"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="windowtext"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt"><b>Dominik Michels</b></span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt">,
KAUST / </span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="windowtext"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt">Standford University</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2" color="windowtext"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="de" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:mail@dmichels.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mail@dmichels.de</a></span></font></span></font></li></ul>
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