<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br><span style="background-color:white">The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) </span><br><span style="background-color:white">November 10-13, 2021, Singapore </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><a href="http://www.colips.org/conferences/icsr2021/wp/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">http://www.colips.org/conferences/icsr2021/wp/</a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">========================================================== </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br><br><span style="background-color:white"><span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Robotics in our everyday lives’, emphasizing on the increasing importance of robotics in human daily living.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">ICSR 2021 will take place in Singapore as a hybrid conference on 10-13 November 2021 with half-day and full-day workshops being hosted to provide a stage to discuss emerging research questions and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">challenges in Social Robotics. <span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">We particularly welcome creative, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">interactive workshop formats that aim to achieve one or more of the </span><span style="background-color:white">following: </span><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">(i) increase the number of actively involved participants<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">(ii) generate significant discussion and exchange of ideas between </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">participants<span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">(iii) generate interactions between established experts and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">early-career researchers </span><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">(iv) make connections to fields outside of robotics and/or connect academia </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">to industry </span><br><br><span style="background-color:white">== Important Dates == <span></span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Workshop proposal submission deadline: 19 June 2021<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2021<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Half page abstract and website URL Due: 31 July 2021<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Workshop Date:<span> </span>10 or 13 November 2021<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Conference: 10-13 November 2021 <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">== Submission == </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">Submissions should be PDF documents of no more than 3/4 pages (following the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available on the conference web site. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website) and should include: <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br><span style="background-color:white">1. Title </span><br><span style="background-color:white">2. Workshop duration: half-day or full-day<span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">3. Workshop form: online, hybrid, or on-side <br><span style="background-color:white">4. Organizers: name and the affiliation of the members of your organizing committee (Name, Affiliation, Email address). </span><br><span style="background-color:white">5. Workshop description and objectives: concise description of the </span><span style="background-color:white">content and objectives of the workshop. </span><br><span style="background-color:white">6. Intended audience and plans to solicit participation: describe the </span><span style="background-color:white">intended workshop audience, how you plan to solicit participation</span>: (i) <span style="background-color:white">ahead of the workshop to generate submission and </span>(ii)<span style="background-color:white">within the workshop in encouraging discussions and exchanges between participants. </span><br><span style="background-color:white">7. List of topics: a bulleted list of the topics of interest that will </span><span style="background-color:white">be covered by the workshop. </span><br><span style="background-color:white">8. List of invited speakers: list any invited speakers (if applicable) </span><br><span style="background-color:white">9. Additional information: Any relevant information that could not be </span><span style="background-color:white">captured by the previous sections (e.g. regarding previous workshop </span><span style="background-color:white">organisation) </span><br><br><span style="background-color:white"><span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Proposals on workshops will be considered by the organizing committee.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Interested participants shall contact <a href="mailto:icsr2021.info@gmail.com">icsr2021.info@gmail.com</a> for proposal submission.<br><span style="background-color:white">We look forward to hosting your workshop at ICSR 2021! </span><br><span style="background-color:white">_______________________________________________ </span><br><br><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">== Workshop Chairs of ICSR 2021 == <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Keng Peng Tee,  A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Maartje de Graaf, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Mariacarla Staffa, University of Naples Federico II, Italy<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="#9900ff"><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px">Mariacarla Staffa, PhD</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px">Assistant Professor</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px">Department of Physics, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy</span><br></font></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>