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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="color: black;" class=""><br class="">1st Workshop on Closeness with Robots as Social Partners</span></b><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class="">Held in conjunction with HRI 2019 Conference in Daegu, South Korea</span></b><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;" class=""><a href="https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class="">Time: March 11th, 2019 from 13:30 – 17:30</span></b><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">Important Dates:</span></b><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">Extended to February 22nd, 2019 (11:59 PM PT): Submission deadline<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">Monday Feb 18th, 2019: Notification of acceptance<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">Thursday Feb 28th, 2019: Camera-ready deadline<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">What to Submit: </span></b><span style="color: black;" class="">2 to 4 pages written abstract, or video, or audio clip, or demo</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">HRI researchers have explored how people behave toward technology agents, advancing the concept that people can attain “closeness” with technology itself in addition to a living social partner. Yet the topic of closeness with robots has not been fully explored or organized into a discrete area of study. This seems particularly important as people’s social connections change, new social signal processing technologies emerge and new embodied media afford agents novel interactions including reciprocal social touch. This workshop is a forum to discuss the future of “closeness” with robots, conversational agents, autonomous vehicles, Internet of Things devices and other technologies that act as social partners—designs, long-term relationships, applications, societal concerns. This half-day workshop’s focus is closeness with robots, but the range of technologies, roles and effects of closeness is broad.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">We invite participants to join the HRI workshop “Closeness with Robots”. Topics include:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Psychological closeness with robots<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Physical closeness and touch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Emotional closeness<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Design of socially-expressive robots or agents<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Theater or performing arts methods to help design agents people feel close to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Long-term interaction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Anthropomorphism<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Human Vulnerabilities in relation to robots as social partners<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Case studies of useful applications of closeness<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Special populations’ closeness with technology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Social acceptability of closeness<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">Organizers:</span></b><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;" class="">Jamy Li (Twente), David Sirkin (Stanford), Jan van Erp (Twente), Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="m6570376446836486031gmail-m6396963687371566714xxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class=""> </span><span style="color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;" class="">Website</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;" class="">: <a href="https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://closenesswithrobots.wordpress.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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