We invite contributed papers for the workshop “Socially acceptable robots (SOLAR): concepts, techniques, and applications”, planned for ICRA 2023 on May 29 in London.

Website: https://www.sociallyhri-icra2023.unimore.it/

The workshop aims to bring together roboticists from academia and industry to share their latest developments and vision on socially acceptable robots. To this end, we have identified four main pathways for enhancing social acceptance in the design of next-generation robotic systems: user profiling, modelling, and understanding; interaction and communication modalities; implementation of socially acceptable behaviours; and characterisation of relevant application scenarios. The discussion will be focused on the following themes:

• How can robots model, profile and understand users?
• How should interaction and communication happen?
• How can socially acceptable robots be implemented?
• Where can socially acceptable robots be implemented?

Prospective participants are welcome to submit full papers (4 to 6 pages) or extended abstracts (2 pages), to be presented as posters. Submissions must be in PDF format (max 8 MB) following the IEEE Conference paper template (https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php). The submitted papers must be emailed to solar.icra23@gmail.com. All submissions will be peer-reviewed to assess their contribution and relevance to the workshop themes. Accepted submissions will be archived on the workshop website. We also welcome submissions that include material that is already published or under review in other venues. In this case, if accepted, manuscripts will not be published on the workshop website.

Important dates

Submission deadline: March 20th 2023

Author notification: April 1st 2023

Camera-ready version deadline: April 30th 2023

Workshop: May 29th 2023 

Registration and attendance:

For each accepted poster in the workshop, at least one author must be registered for the workshop sessions of the main ICRA conference (https://www.icra2023.org/registration). 

Workshop organisers: 

Valeria Villani, Department of Science and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Lorenzo Sabattini, Department of Science and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Oya Celiktutan, Department of Engineering, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Alessandro Giusti, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), USI-SUPSI Lugano, Switzerland

The workshop organizers are reachable at solar.icra23@gmail.com