International Conference on Social Robotics...

 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2012) (Expired)
Mary-Anne Williams | Thursday May 24, 2012 | Conferences | Research

Date/Time: 12:00AM Monday October 29, 2012 - 12:00AM Wednesday October 31, 2012
Location: Chengdu, China
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The International Conference on Social Robotics brings researchers and practitioners together to report and discuss the latest progress in the field of social robotics. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots and the integration of robots into our society.

The theme of the 2012 conference is "Wellness." This theme gives focus on the potential and capabilities of social robots to assist humans achieve better physical, mental and emotional health and wellness. The conference aims to foster discussion on the development of computational models, robotic embodiments, and behavior that enable social robots to have an impact on the human partner's health and well-being.

The conference welcomes original, peer reviewed papers and contributions describing technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances in social robots, and their interactions and communications with humans, especially innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its interaction and communication with human being and its social impact on our society.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments

- Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities

- Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life

- Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots

- Personal robots for the home

- Social acceptance and impact in the society

- Robot ethics in human society

- Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding

- Control architectures for social robotics

- Socially appealing design methodologies

- Safety in robots working in human spaces

- Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots

- Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES

Invited Session Proposal Submission: 20 May 2012 [extended]

Regular/Invited Paper Submission: 7 June 2012  [extended]

Demonstration Proposal Submission: 30 June 2012

Notification of Paper Acceptance: 15 July 2012

Final Manuscript Submission: 15 August 2012

Registration, Social Tour and Reception Party: 28 October 2012

Conference: 29-31 October 2012

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Submissions must be made in the PDF format and follow the Springer LNCS/LNAI style for the layout. LNCS style templates are available on the Springer LNCS website. Manuscripts are limited to ten (10) A4 size papers. Detailed instructions for paper submission are available at www.icsoro.org. All papers will be refereed by the program committee.

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer. Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Participants can submit proposals for invited sessions that consist of a collection of invited papers with a common theme. Proposals for invited sessions consist of (1) a proposed title for the session; (2) a brief 2-3 paragraph summary for the session explaining the goal of the session and the overarching themes of the invited papers; and (3) a list of papers with contributing authors and tentative abstracts for the papers.

EXHIBITIONS

Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at the conference site please prepare 1 page summary about the demonstration and email sec.icsr@gmail.com. Exhibition booth will be allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2012 organizing committee.

ROBOT DESIGN COMPETITION

There will be a competition to draw creative ideas on industrial designs in social or service robotics. Prizes will be awarded to the shortlisted designs.

Information about the submission of proposals, templates and arrangement information are available at the conference's website www.icsoro.org.

 

General Chairs:

Shuzhi Sam Ge National University of Singapore, and  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Oussama Khatib Stanford University, USA

Program Chairs:

John-John Cabibihan National University of Singapore, Singapore

Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Mary-Anne Williams University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Organizing Committee Chair:

Kaiyu Qin University of Electronics Science and Technology of China

Publicity Chairs:

Ravindra De Silva Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN

Guido Herrmann University of Bristol, UK

Publication Chairs:

Martin Saerbeck Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Hongsheng He National University of Singapore, Singapore

Special Session Chairs:

Gordon Cheng Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Adriana Tapus Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris, France

Robot Design Competition Chair:

Ho Seok Ahn TR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Japan

Adrian Hwang Jian Tay Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Finance Chair:

Wei He National University of Singapore, Singapore

International Sponsorship Chairs:

Xiaolin Dai University of Electronics Science and Technology of China

Michio Okada Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

 

Program Committee

Arvin Agah The University of Kansas Lawrence, USA

Brenna Argall Northwestern University, USA

Luca Brayda Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Maria Chiara Carrozza Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy

Ryad Chellali Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Dieter Fox University of Washington, USA

Takayuki Kanda ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland, New Zealand

Selma Šabanovi? Indiana University, USA

Siddhartha Srinivasa Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Yeow Kee Tan Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Agnieszka Wykowska Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Xianggang Zhang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Marcelo H. Ang, Jr. National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kai O. Arras Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Frank Broz University of Hertfordshire, UK

So Wing Chee, Catherine National University of Singapore

Xiaoping Chen University of Science and Technology of China

Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Jaap Ham Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Kolja Kühnlenz Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Ben Robins The University of Hertfordshire, UK

Miguel A Salichs University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Aaron Steinfeld Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Keng Peng Tee A*Star, Singapore

Astrid Weiss University of Salzburg, Austria

Wenzeng Zhang Tsinghua University, China