<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">UMUAI Special issue on Personalization and Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactive Communication</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">The Journal of Personalization Research. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">*** Apologies for cross-postings***</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><b class="">MOTIVATION AND SCOPE</b><br class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">In order to make Human-Robot interactive communication socially acceptable, legible, and natural from the user’s point of view, it is of paramount importance to endow a robot with the ability to model the users’ preferences, needs, and motivations. Creating robotic systems capable of correctly recognizing, and consequently, modelling the human behavior and preferences is a very critical and challenging task, especially in the domain of assistive and social robotics and when working with vulnerable user populations. A robot should be able to cope with local uncertainties of the environment, variations of the human desires and motivations, and volatilities of the interaction itself. The embodiment condition of a robot requires the abilities to extract such relevant information from the interaction history but also from the indirect observation of the user. Thus, a user modeling component should cope with these challenging and evolving requirements. With respect to software agents, the embodiment condition requires also to consider the physical characteristics of the interaction, such as the user preferences regarding robot’s physical movements in the space (e.g., proxemics, speed, and trajectories).</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">A personalized and adaptive interaction, differently from pure reactive strategies, strongly relies on the learning of such computational model of human behavior and on the integration of these into the decision-making algorithms of the robot. This includes also the possibility of endowing the robot with meta-cognition capabilities such as the capability of reasoning on the other individuals’ intentions, desires, and beliefs, as well as their internal states, personality, and emotions (often referred to as Theory of Mind - ToM). The ability of a robot to adapt its behavior according to social expectations, specific cultural norms, and possible individual preferences, will determine the success and large-scale use of such robotics application.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">This Special Issue aims at examining and promoting recent developments in the Personalized and Adaptive interactive communication in robotics, so providing to the UMUAI journal with a different perspective related to the specific characteristics of the interaction with a physical robot. The submitted papers will undergo peer review process before they can be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">LIST OF TOPICS</b><br class=""><br class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Context and situation awareness for robots</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">• User modelling for HRI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• User cognitive state assessment and monitoring</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Activity, intention, and emotion recognition</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Engagement evaluation and re-engagement strategies</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Adaptation in physical interaction</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Personalized dialogue with robots</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Socially Aware Navigation</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Adaptive Task Planning</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Cognitive Architectures and Theory of Mind for adaptive interaction</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Reinforcement learning for robotic adaptation</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Adaptation in multimodal interaction</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Non-verbal social signals in adaptation</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Affective and emotion-adapted HRI</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">• Personalized Social Assistive Robotics</font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">• Performance evaluation for adaptive robotic behavior<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">SUBMISSION</b><br class="">Authors must submit an extended abstract via EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. It must be at most 3 pages long, not counting references, and formatted according to the journal template. The guest editors of the special issue will then screen all submitted extended abstracts and will invite authors of submissions that pass this screening to submit a full manuscript to be submitted via the journal’s submission system.<br class=""><br class="">UMUAI formatting guidelines are available here: </span><a href="http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class="">The abstract submission needs to be done through EasyChair at: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siumuai2020" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siumuai2020</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class="">After abstracts have been accepted, the final full submission needs to be done through the UMUAI journal submission system: </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">SCHEDULE</b><br class="">Extended abstract deadline – November 1st, 2020 </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Deadline for abstract review - November 15th, 2020 </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Full Paper Submission – January 15th, 2021<br class="">First review notification – March 15th, 2021 </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Deadline for revised manuscript– June 15th, 2021 </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Final notice of acceptance/rejection – July 15th, 2021 </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Camera-ready Deadline – September 15th, 2021 </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Publication – October, 2021<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">GUEST EDITORS</b><br class="">Silvia Rossi – University of Naples Federico II (Italy), </span><a href="mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">silvia.rossi@unina.it</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">Mariacarla Staffa – University of Naples Federico II (Italy), </span><a href="mailto:mariacarla.staffa@unina.it" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">mariacarla.staffa@unina.it</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Maartje De Graaf – Utrecht University (Netherlands), </span><a href="mailto:m.m.a.degraaf@uu.nl" target="_blank" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class="">m.m.a.degraaf@uu.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">Cristina Gena - University of Turin (Italy), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;" class=""><a href="mailto:cristina.gena@unito.it" class="">cristina.gena@unito.it</a></span></font></div><br class=""><br class="">
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