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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We welcome you to submit to our special session,
<b>HRD-BOND: The What, Why, How of Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads</b>, at the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024) Conference in Glasgow, UK (15-18 September):
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Description:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are heading towards a society where interactions between humans and social robots will no longer be reserved
for rare occasions (e.g., in research facilities, exhibitions, or a one-shot experience in a public space). Rather, it will be a collaborative and assistive co-existence across many domains: including healthcare services, education, public spaces, and assisted
transportation. The improvements in autonomy, intelligence, and behavioral capabilities of these social agents over time, combined with our ever-increasing (collaborative) interactions with them and our disposition as a social species, bring about the potential
for humans to form strong, meaningful relationships with social robots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In human-human and even human-animal dyads, social attachments, bonds, or relationships serve powerful regulatory
roles on our emotions, behaviors, and mental and physical states. Forming social bonds is associated with increased levels of trust and perceived competence of our partners, increased levels of cooperation and collaboration between partners, and providing
means for affective regulation (e.g., reducing anxiety). If these are qualities we are looking to imbue in social robots, and if they are to advance to the next stage as long-term collaborative, assistive social partners, then the phenomenology of our relationships
with these artificial agents requires a deeper scholarly focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the HRD-BOND Special Session, we aim to provide a focused forum to collate work, ideas, and discourse on theoretical
or applied work on this phenomenon. We welcome discussion on, for instance, understanding if, how, and why social bonds can form in human-robot dyads, establishing frameworks and methods to measure and evaluate their quality and functionality, and discourse
on the ontology and epistemology of social interaction and bonding between humans and artificial systems, as well as ethical and legal considerations of these relationships with social robots. We also particularly encourage and welcome transdisciplinary approaches
(for example, work inspired by social psychology, ethology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, or other related disciplines), applied work related to social bonding in (long-term) human-robot studies, and position papers providing novel perspectives
or challenges to existing ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applied work on social bonding or attachment in long-term human-robot (dyadic) interactions.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Adaptive) functionality of social bonding or attachments in human-robot scenarios e.g. personalization of robot
interactions </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Behavioral consequences or expressions of social bonding/attachment dynamics in human-robot dyads (e.g. changes
in spatial proximity, frequency of interactions, ‘personality’ changes of robot or human).</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Novel (theoretical or applied) frameworks, tools or metrics to evaluating/measuring quantifying dynamics of social
bonding or attachment in human-robot dyads. </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Discussions on ontology and epistemology of social bonding, attachment or forming of relationships between human-robot
dyads. </span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Contextual (human) factors affecting social attachment dynamics or characteristics in human-robot interaction scenarios,
e.g. cultural, social, and gender norms.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Work discussing ethical, moral, and legal considerations and implications of social bonding
or attachments with social robots or other (social) autonomous agents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Submissions:</b> 15 March 2024</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Camera-ready submission for the main track:
</b>19 July 2024</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Glasgow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Imy Khan, PhD: University of Gothenburg (imran.khan@ait.gu.se)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Lowe, PhD: University of Gothenburg (robert.lowe@ait.gu.se)</span></div>
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Marie-Skùodowska Curie Actions EUTOPIA-SIF Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
Department of Applied IT | Division of Cognition & Communication | Forskningsgången 6, 417 56 Göteborg<br>
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