<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-76239b98-7fff-6106-6c34-c0f6b98b6add" class="gmail-" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">******************************************************************************************</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Second International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2021, (on-line) Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 21-25, 2021</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: </span><a href="https://caesar2020.di.unito.it/index.html" class="gmail-" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://caesar2021.di.unito.it/index.html</span></a><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">******************************************************************************************</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission: March 26, 2021 (23:59 AoE time)</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification to authors: April 19, 2021</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 07, 2021</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">******************************************************************************************</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="white-space:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library.</span><br></font></span></div></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations. </span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">++Topics++</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to):</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- User modeling in social HRI</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Adaptation strategies for social HRI</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Affective interaction with robots</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Machine learning for social robots</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Natural Language Interaction with social robots</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Emotion detection in social HRI</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Assistive Robots</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Robots in Education</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Robots in the real world</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- User-centered Design in social HRI</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Behavior Transparency for Social Robot</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">++Submissions++</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Submissions in EasyChair by selecting the track "Workshop-cAESAR": </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021" class="gmail-" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021</span></a></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including references.</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review.</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG CHI proceedings template: </span><a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" class="gmail-" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</span></a><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (the paper format, not the extended abstract format).</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">++ Organizing committee ++</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:berardina.decarolis@uniba.it" class="gmail-">berardina.decarolis@uniba.it</a></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:cgena@di.unito.it" class="gmail-">cgena@di.unito.it</a></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Antonio Lieto, University of Torino, Italy, </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:lieto@di.unito.it" class="gmail-">lieto@di.unito.it</a></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it" class="gmail-">silvia.rossi@unina.it</a></span></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" class="gmail-">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</a></span></div></span><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><div dir="auto" class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-" style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div class="gmail-">---------------------------------------------------<br class="gmail-">Silvia Rossi, PhD<br class="gmail-">Associate Professor</div><div class="gmail-">Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - D.I.E.T.I.<br class="gmail-"><br class="gmail-">University of Naples Federico II<br class="gmail-">Via Claudio, 21, 80125 - Naples, Italy<br class="gmail-">phone:  +39 081 679963<br class="gmail-">skypeid: silvross<br class="gmail-">w-page: <a href="http://wpage.unina.it/silrossi/" class="gmail-" style="text-align:-webkit-auto">http://wpage.unina.it/silrossi/</a></div><div class="gmail-">e-mail: <a href="mailto:silvia.rossi@unina.it" class="gmail-">silvia.rossi@unina.it</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>