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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">We would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper to our special session on "<b>Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots</b>" for the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication (RO-MAN 2022). Please find the description below: </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Special Session on Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots </b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">within the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">Napoli, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2022 </span></p>
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<span class="s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(19, 19, 18)">Special session website: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnonverbal-communication-skills.github.io%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ctan_viet_tuyen.nguyen%40kcl.ac.uk%7C65b6925564f94309ab0308d9eb25aa5a%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637799369264554094%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=YsYMVdnB96qpMSE4JhiPOrOEXHgsp3fte0TPejVlrDw%3D&reserved=0"><span class="s5" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 227)">https://nonverbal-communication-skills.github.io/</span></a> </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>*AIM AND SCOPE* </b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">We are approaching a future where social robots will progressively become widespread in many aspects of our daily lives, including education, healthcare, work, and personal use. All such practical applications require
that humans and robots collaborate in human environments, where social interaction is unavoidable. Along with verbal communication, successful social interaction is closely coupled with nonverbal communication. Humans perform nonverbal communication in an
instinctive and adaptive way, with no effort. For robots to be successful in our social landscape, they should therefore engage in social interactions in a human-like manner, with increasing levels of autonomy. Understanding human-human interaction is therefore
the most natural guide to designing human-robot interaction interfaces that can be usable and understandable by everyone. The key aim of this special session is to bring forth efforts to understand mechanisms underlying human-human nonverbal communication
and introduce novel approaches to the design, development, and evaluation of robotic platforms inspired and driven by those mechanisms. This special session will bring together researchers with diverse backgrounds, ranging from social psychology, cognitive
science, machine learning, computer vision, and human-robot interaction, to share innovative ideas, findings, and challenges related to nonverbal communication skills in humans and robots. The special session will foster multidisciplinary discussions among
academic and industrial researchers towards improving robots’ nonverbal communication skills and enhancing human trust and acceptance of robots. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>*TOPICS* </b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Analysis and synthesis of multimodal nonverbal cues, including facial expressions, paralinguistics, eye gaze, head movements, body postures, and hand gestures within an interaction context. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Analysis and synthesis of affective states, such as emotions, empathy, personality, and engagement. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Co-modelling of nonverbal and verbal cues. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Co-speech gesture generation. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Machine learning approaches to nonverbal communication analysis and synthesis. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Societal and ethical considerations of cognitive and social robots, including transparency, bias, fairness, and privacy. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Applications of cognitive and social robots in healthcare, education, workplace, or entertainment. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Databases and tools for nonverbal communication analysis and synthesis. </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>*SUBMISSION PROCEDURE* </b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers. The accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published in the IEEE Xplore. Please
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>*SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS:* </b></span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Oya Celiktutan</b>, King’s College London, United Kingdom </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen</b>, King’s College London, United Kingdom </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Marine Chamoux</b>, SoftBank Robotics Europe, France </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Alexandra Georgescu</b>, King’s College London, United Kingdom </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Mutlu Cukurova</b>, University College London, United Kingdom </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Pierre Lison</b>, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway </span></p>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning:none">On behalf of the Organisers,</span></p>
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