<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">As the submission deadline of RO-MAN 2020 is approaching (April 29, 2020), we would like to renew our invitation to submit your full papers to our </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Special Session </font>"Societal Consequences of Human-Robot Interaction" (see CFP below).</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Please note that the RO-MAN 2020 Steering and Organizing Committees are constantly monitoring the information about the COVID-19 pandemic (Coronavirus) and will follow the advice given by the World Health Organisation and the Governments to arrange the conference.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Feel free to share the call with other potentially interested colleagues. </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">We apologize in advance for cross-posting.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Kindest regards,</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Giulia Perugia </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">================</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Call for Papers for the Special Session "Societal Consequences of Human-Robot Interaction"</b><br>29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communciation (RO-MAN 2020) <br>31 August- 4 September 2020, Naples (Italy)<br><a href="http://ro-man2020.unina.it/special-sessions.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ro-man2020.unina.it/special-sessions.php</a> </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br>==== Important Dates ====</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>Submission deadline: 29th April, 2020<br>Author notification: 15th June 2020<br>Camera ready due: 30th June 2020<br>Conference: 31st August- 4th September 2020 <br> <br>==== Overview ====<br> <br>This special session welcomes papers that address the societal consequences of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). As social robots will become increasingly autonomous and present in our daily life in the years to come, the field of HRI and Social Robotics should investigate the potential challenges that their pervasive presence could bring about, and set legal and ethical boundaries to their use. With this special session, we aim at understanding: how will the pervasive interaction with social robots change human behavior? Do humans comply with norm-violating social robots? Do bias and discrimination observable in human-human interaction extend to HRI? How can we legally and ethically limit the misuse of social robots?</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We accept papers that explore how the exposure to and interaction with norm-violating social robots (e.g., cheating robots, bribing robots, erratic robots) could affect human multimodal behavior (e.g., conformity), and how concepts such as trust, familiarity, and rapport affect people’s reactions to such robots. Moreover, we welcome papers that assess human misconduct with robots in terms of discrimination (e.g., racism/racialization, sexism/sexualization) and mistreatment (e.g., bullying, verbal disinhibition, violent behavior), but also papers that investigate how we, as humans, react to robotic harm. As the debate on the societal consequences of HRI should be addressed from a multidisciplinary point of view, we also accept papers that present legal and ethical frameworks on social robotics’ use and data collection, especially concerning vulnerable populations, such as children and persons with disabilities (e.g., people with dementia). In this sense, topics of interest are liability and accountability, transparency and explainability in HRI, and deception.<br> <br>==== Scope and Topics ====<br> <br>Topics include but are not limited to:</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><ul style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Conformity to social robots </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Social robots violating injunctive norms</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cheating/Bribing robots </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Faulty robots/Erratic social robots </font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deceptive social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Social Engineering in HRI</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Racism/Racialization of social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sexism/Sexualization of robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Unconscious bias towards social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bullyism towards social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Misuse/Abuse of social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Verbal disinhibition towards social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Violent behavior towards social robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Human reactions to robotic harm</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Surveillance capitalism in Social Robotics</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Accountability/Liability in HRI</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Transparency/Explainability in HRI</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deception in HRI</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ethical implications of misbehaving robots</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mapping responsibilities in HRI</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Unintended consequences of HRI</font></li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br>==== Submissions ====<br> <br>Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via Papercept. For the first submission, a manuscript can be of 6-8 pages. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process. To have the paper included in the Special Session, authors should specify the <b>session code 9c434</b> when submitting the paper.<br> <br>For more information about the Special Session, please check the full proposal at this link: <a href="https://giuliaperugia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Full-proposal-Special-Session.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://giuliaperugia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Full-proposal-Special-Session.pdf</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br>==== Organizers ====<br> <br>Dr. Giulia Perugia (Main Organizer), Postdoctoral Researcher (Uppsala University, Sweden) <a href="mailto:giulia.perugia@it.uu.se" target="_blank">giulia.perugia@it.uu.se</a><br>Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Postdoctoral Researcher (Leiden University, Netherlands) <a href="mailto:e.fosch.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl" target="_blank">e.fosch.villaronga@law.leidenuniv.nl</a> <br>Dr. Alexander Mois Aroyo, Postdoctoral researcher (University of Waterloo, Canada) <a href="mailto:alexander.aroyo@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">alexander.aroyo@uwaterloo.ca</a><br>Dr. Alessandra Sciutti, Tenure-track researcher (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) <a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" target="_blank">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</a><br>Prof. Ginevra Castellano, Full Professor (Uppsala University, Sweden) <a href="mailto:ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se" target="_blank">ginevra.castellano@it.uu.se</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div>
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