++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++

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Fifth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR), in conjunction with UMAP 2024, 1 - 4 July, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Website: https://caesar2024.di.unito.it/

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This Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations. 

++Topics++

Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to):

- Personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

- User modeling in social HRI

- Adaptation strategies for social HRI

- Affective interaction with robots

- Machine learning for social robots

- Natural Language Interaction with social robots

- Emotion detection in social HRI

- Social Assistive Robots

- Social Robots in Education

- Social HRI and Cognitive Impairments

- Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems

- Social Robots in the real world

- User-centered Design in social HRI

- Behavior Transparency for Social Robot

- Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots

++Submissions++

Paper Submissions in EasyChair https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap24, selecting the track associated with this workshop "Workshop CAESAR": 

Page limits: Long papers up to 10 pages including references; Short papers up to 6 pages including references; Position paper/Demo paper 2 pages including references.

Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.

ACM will publish a conference adjunct proceedings where all the workshop papers will be published.

Workshop papers must follow the formatting guidelines and templates of the main conference. (https://www.um.org/umap2024/call-for-full-and-short-papers/).

Papers exceeding page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review.

An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: April 24, 2024

Notification: May 8, 2024

Accepted Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 16, 2024

++ Organizing committee ++

Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy, berardina.decarolis@uniba.it

Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena@di.unito.it

Antonio Lieto, University of Salerno, Italy, alieto@unisa.it

Silvia Rossi, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy silvia.rossi@unina.it

Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, alessandra.sciutti@iit.it