<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Call For Papers <o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">"The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An interdisciplinary workshop on the role of failure in HRI" co-located with HRI 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="NL">Website: https://sites.google.com/view/hri-failure-ws/home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">What happens when robots fail? How does this impact human expectations of social robots? What if encountering a robot who is a little less than perfect might actually make it more relatable?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Focusing on failure as a way to improve human-robot interactions represents a novel approach that calls into question human expectations of robots, as well as posing ethical and methodological challenges to researchers. </span><span lang="EN-GB">In this space, interdisciplinary conversations are the key to untangling these challenges and bringing themes of power and context into view. </span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">We welcome authors and participants from multiple fields including, but not limited to, Social Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Science & Technology Studies, Media Studies and Gender Studies.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Topics for discussion at this half-day workshop might include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Methods for studying failure (both robotic failures, but also ways of understanding human multimodal responses to failure) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Failures as a way to explore norms around assumed bodies and behaviours in the human-robot interaction <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Detecting failure – how can a robot know it has failed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Different kinds of failures – recognition, proximity, mechanical – and the impact on the interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Human tolerance for robotic failure – precise measurements for industrial robots (target radius, for example) as compared to social robots where what counts as “failure” may be harder to define <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Popular culture representations of robots and user assumptions – the gap between fiction and reality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Too good to be true? The uncanny valley, likeability and warts on the noses of our robots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Cross-cultural studies on failures exploring how failures might be sanctioned differently in different cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Affective “scaffolding” performed by other humans: helping us to interact with failing robots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The normalization of failure in the robotics community: when does failure become an issue and when is it just “business as usual”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Planning for failure “in the wild”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Abstracts (2-4 pages in length, including references) must be submitted in PDF format. All submissions must follow the ACM/IEEE HRI template. Templates are available at this <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">link (US letter)</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness. Submissions do not need to be anonymized. All accepted papers will be linked to the workshop website. We require at least one author to be registered for and attend the workshop for all accepted papers. Papers should be submitted via Easychair: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imprr2023" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imprr2023</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Please feel free to reach out if you have questions to: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:failure.ws2023@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span lang="EN-US">failure.ws2023@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Important dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Decisions on abstract acceptance: 14 February 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for accepted authors to upload a 2 minute “teaser” presentation: 6 March 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop: 13 March 2023, at HRI ’23, in Stockholm, Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Katherine Harrison, Linköping University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Giulia Perugia, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Kavyaa Somasundaram, Örebro University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Filipa Correia, Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Sanne van Waveren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="PT">Ana Paiva, GAIPS, INESC-ID, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Amy Loutfi, Örebro University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="SV"> </span></p></body></html><br>
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