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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">We are pleased to invite you to submit your work on the topic of context-awareness in human-robot interaction at the workshop

</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">"Context-Awareness in Human-Robot Interaction: Approaches and Challenges" at HRI'22.</span></font></div>

<div><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Please find the description and important information below.</span></font></div>

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 be seamlessly integrated in human-centered environments, robots are expected to have

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent"><b>intelligent social capabilities

</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">on top of their physical abilities. To this end, research in artificial intelligence and human-robot

 interaction face two major challenges. Firstly, </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent"><b>robots need to cope with uncertainty during interaction</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">,

 especially when dealing with factors that are not fully observable and hard to infer such as the states representing the dynamic environment and human behavior (e.g., intents, goals, preferences). Secondly,

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent"><b>robots need to communicate their behaviors to agents</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">

(humans and other robots in the environment) <font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">in a clear and understandable manner<font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">.

 Therefore, robots need to be </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent"><b>context-aware</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">:

 being able to perceive and understand their surroundings, and adapt their functionalities accordingly.</span></font></div>

<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Our workshop aims at gathering the latest theoretical and practical research studies and expertise in intelligent social

 robotics that investigate the applications and challenges of </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>bringing the ability to robots to perceive and understand their environment in the context

 of Human-Robot interactions</b></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">

 Besides, the workshop will allow participants and renowned researchers from academia and industry to discuss, in a multidisciplinary panel discussion, the current and long-term challenges for context-awareness in human-robot interactions. </span></font></div>

<div style="margin-top:14pt; margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="5"><b>List of Topics (but are not limited to):</b></font></div>

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<li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Robot behavior adaption and personalization</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Decision-making under

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">context-</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">uncertainty</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">AI and machine learning approaches applied to

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">context-awareness in

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">human-robot interaction</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Perception for human-robot interaction</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Modeling

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">and understanding of

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">human behaviour</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">

 in human-robot interaction</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">User studies and evaluation</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">

 of robots with a degree of context-awareness</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Adaptive robot behavior generation </span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Cognitive architectures

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">to improve context awareness in human-robot interaction

</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt">Situation awareness for context-dependent human-robot interaction</span></font></li></ul>

<div style="margin-top:14pt; margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="5"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></font></div>

<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Submissions types for this workshop include:</span></font></div>

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 of 2-6 </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">camera-ready

</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">pages</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">and

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<div style="margin-top:14pt; margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="5"><b>Important dates</b></font></div>

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<li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Submission deadline: January, 24th 2022</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Notification of Acceptance: February, 7th 2022</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Camera-ready version: February, 21th 2022</span></font></li></ul>

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<li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Pauline Chevalier (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Bob Schadenberg (University of Twente, The Netherlands)</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Amir Aly (University of Plymouth, UK)</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Angelo Cangelosi (University of Manchester, UK)</span></font></li><li><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">Adriana Tapus (ENSTA Paris, France)</span></font></li></ul>

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<li><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Henny Admoni (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Takayuki Kanda (Kyoto University, Japan)</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Bilge Multu (University of Wisconsin�Madison, USA)</span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Paulo Alvito (IDMind, Portugal)</span></font></li></ul>

<div style="margin-top:14pt; margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="5"><b>Venue</b></font></div>

<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" color="#1C1C1C"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">The workshop will be fully virtual and will be held on March, 7th 2022, from

 9am to 6pm JST, at the </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt">ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.</span></font></div>

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<td><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202112141306260176784&URLID=2&ESV=10.0.10.6443&IV=71FD2B8F82251B84161314D8CC97836B&TT=1639487186628&ESN=K*2Byh9J*2B*2Fzf6HOhR6cOZ7Y*2Bw423rrV74G4dLDb0l93eg*3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly9lYXN5Y2hhaXIub3JnL2NvbmZlcmVuY2VzLz9jb25mPWNvbmF3YTIwMjI&HK=ABE74144B36DF0EA45EBA7CF95FFFD66D91AF578B8BF986DD7641C80DD4519F6__;JSUlJSU!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!5uCm0A4rgEg_3i5pCEBt-Syxw0LBmlfz95UPwu2VWP4ZSHMUJTqDet_4yNLBXYDGMtY7KjB0$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=conawa2022</a></td>

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