Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit to the HRI'2021 workshop "Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions".
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nhri21 Two deadlines: January 24, 2021 & February 21, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to submit your research on Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) to this year’s HRI Workshop on Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions. Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) encompasses factors such as: gaze, gesture, touch, body language, the expression of affect, paralinguistics, and facial expression. nHRI has advanced beyond theoretical and computational contributions. Progress has been made through a variety of user studies and laboratory experiments as well as practical efforts such as integration of nonverbal inputs with other HRI modalities including domain specific implementations. This workshop seeks to promote collaboration between two threads of research: experimental nHRI, and application domains that can benefit from its use. The workshop will link researchers working on new approaches to nHRI in the laboratory to applied roboticists who present challenges in specific domains, such as: service robots, field robotics, socially-assistive robotics, and human-robot collaborative work that could benefit from richer nHRI. This workshop will draw participation from diverse areas to evaluate best practices and integration efforts across different research domains. We will target a broad, cross-disciplinary audience, and provide a venue for recent efforts related to multimodal interaction, system integration, data collection, and user studies. This workshop will facilitate cross-pollination from disparate efforts and improve our collective ability to evaluate future nHRI contributions. The workshop will comprise three focus areas: 1) Theory, User Studies, and Laboratory Experimentation; 2) Applications and Application Domains; and 3) Domain-Specific Challenges. Papers will include short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages) and long-format integration and experimental papers (4-6 pages). Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): * Advantages of systems that leverage nHRI in teamwork, companionship, and other applications * Theories and perspectives of non-verbal communication * Exchange of gesture * Studies of the interpretation of gesture and facial expression * Microexpressions and affect * Theory of mind approaches to non-verbal communication * Variations across cultures of nonverbal expression * Physical, mental, age, and gender specific expressions Important Dates --------------------------- January 24: Early Submission Deadline January 28: Early Notifications January 31: Early Registration Deadline ( https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/registration/) February 21: Second Paper Submission Deadline March 1: Second Notifications March 7: HRI workshops We hope to see you there! Reuth Mirsky, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow The University of Texas at Austin [email protected]
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