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failures in short- and long-term interactions, and highlight how
different failures influence their perceptions and emotions toward the
robots, and 2) exploring different techniques (e.g. inner speech,
predictability and transparency of robotic behaviours, Theory of Mind,
robot etiquette, Verification Methods, explanations) can foster a <span><span>natural
human-robot communication to reduce the perception of failures and/or
help people understand the implications, risks, and goals of robot
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-mark28q1yn5lw">SPECIAL</span> <span class="gmail-mark6ye78dyrh">SESSION</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">To err is robotic: Understanding, preventing and resolving robots' failures in HRI</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:red;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">Code u3f1h</span></p><br aria-hidden="true">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Robots
placed in human-oriented dynamic environments, such as private homes,
shopping malls, healthcare facilities, are likely to exhibit occasional
behaviours which are perceived by people as unexpected, failures, or
actual errors. Robots' errors can negatively affect people's perception
of the robotic behaviours, in terms of usefulness, functionalities and
capabilities, trustworthiness and acceptability. Robotics errors and how
these are perceived by people do not only depend on robot self, but
they are also a consequence of other factors. For example, they may be a
consequence of human errors, or an unclear and non-transparent
communication, or they may depend on a misunderstanding and
miscommunication of the social, psychological and cognitive conventions
expected by people. Moreover, there are also some cases in which these
behaviours may be perceived as if robots intentionally deceive or cheat
people. As a consequence, these may result in people wrongly
interpreting and predicting the robots’ intents and behaviours, and
negatively affecting Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This <span class="gmail-mark6ye78dyrh">session</span>
will focus on examine how people from perceive robot's failures in
short- and long-term interactions, and highlight how different failures
influence their perceptions and emotions toward the robots.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This
will help with subject related to classifying of robot errors from the
aspect of human (e.g. intentional, voluntarily, perceived vs. real
errors -- recklessness, forgetfulness, poor motivation --) and robot
dimensions (e.g. actual error - algorithms, sensors, actuators).
Moreover, while dealing with robotic failures, it is fundamental to
consider two different strategies. The first one is oriented to prevent
robots from exhibiting unintended behaviours, which in some extreme
cases may even endanger people’s, pets’ safety, or break objects. Some
examples are meant to enable robots to adapt and recover from any
erroneous behaviour, such as the use of Software Verification Methods,
Theory of Mind, robot etiquette. Others are focused on mitigating the
effects of robot errors with apologies, promises or creating transparent
robotic behaviours.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This <span class="gmail-mark6ye78dyrh">session</span> will explore how different techniques can be used to enhancing natural human-robot communication (such as </span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">inner speech, legibility, predictability and transparency of robotic behaviours, explicit and non-explicit strategies</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">)
can be used to help people understand the implications, risks, and
goals of robots' behaviours and to mitigate the perception of the
failures. In this <span class="gmail-mark6ye78dyrh">session</span>,
we also want to explore strategies both to prevent robots from
exhibiting unintended behaviours, and to mitigate the effects of robot
errors on human-robot interaction.</span></p><br aria-hidden="true">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The topics covered in this <span class="gmail-mark28q1yn5lw">special</span> <span class="gmail-mark6ye78dyrh">session</span>
are in line with the main theme of the conference (i.e., “Design New
Bridge for H-R-I”). In particular, we want to start by fostering the </span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">[R] Robotic Recovery and Reconnection</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> to allow </span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">[I] Intelligent Interface and Interaction</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> for the </span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">[H] Human Health, Happiness and Hope</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">. Notably, accepted topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Explainable AI (XAI) in HRI</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Multi-modal situation awareness and spatial cognition</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Social intelligence for robots in interactive and non-interactive tasks</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Verifications Methods for autonomous agents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Legibility, Predictability and Transparency in HRI</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Deception in HRI</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Robot cheating in HRI</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span>Modelling Trust and Acceptance in HRI</span></p></li></ul><br aria-hidden="true">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">Important Dates</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Initial Paper Submission Deadline:</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700"> March 17, 2023</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Notification of Acceptance:</span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700"> May 26, 2023</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Dr. Alessandra Rossi - University of Naples Federico II, Italy - </span><a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline">alessandra.rossi@unina.it</span></a></p>
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