RO-MAN 2023 Special Session on “HRI in Academia and Industry: Bridging the Gap”

SPECIAL SESSION on “HRI in Academia and Industry: Bridging the Gap” @ IEEE RO-MAN 2023

 

IMPORTANT DATES

  • *NEW* Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023 (AoE)

  • Notification of Acceptance: May 26, 2023

  • Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2023

 

AIM AND SCOPE

The use of robots that operate in spaces where humans are present is growing at a dramatic rate. We are seeing more and more robots in warehouses, on streets, and even in our homes. All of these robots will, as part of their primary function, interact with humans in some way. In order to be successful, their interactions with humans will have to be carefully designed. The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has been growing at the intersection of robotics, AI, psychology, and a number of other fields. However, until quite recently, it has been a largely academic area, with university researchers proposing, implementing, and reporting on experiments at a limited scale. With the current increase of commercially-available robots, HRI is starting to make its way into industry in a meaningful way.

This special session is intended to bring together HRI researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, to discuss how these areas are different in their needs and approaches, and to figure out how HRI researchers and practitioners in these areas can work together – How can we make academic HRI research and education more relevant to industrial needs? How can industry support and contribute to more science-focused HRI? The special session will attract contributions on four broad themes, outlined below, in an attempt to build a new community interested in how these two active areas of HRI research and practice can work more closely together, and support each other in practical terms. We welcome research and case study papers with at least one section devoted to addressing some of the questions outlined below in the discussion section. We also invite survey and position paper contributions that directly surveys or discusses some of the below questions.

  • The Constraints and Needs of HRI in Industry

    • What are the constraints of deploying HRI at scale in consumer robots?

    • What are the pressing HRI problems that the industry wants to solve? Why?

    • How do we measure the success of HRI in a consumer product?

    • What HRI research can we do in an industry setting that we can’t do in academia?

  • The Relevance and Innovation of Academic HRI

    • What are the constraints of HRI research in an academic environment?

    • What industrial or consumer applications drive interesting academic HRI research?

    • How do we measure the success of academic HRI beyond controlled experiments and p-values?

    • What HRI research can we do in an academic setting that we can’t do in industry?

  • Interaction between Academic and Industrial HRI: Publications, Conferences, Tools/Technology Resources, and Experiments

    • What are the constraints of publishing in industry, and how do we address them?

    • How can academic & industrial HRI researchers collaborate meaningfully across the IP boundary?

    • How can industry HRI research benefit more from science-driven approaches?

    • How can academic HRI research benefit more from real-world problems?

  • HRI Education and Training: What does Academia and Industry Need?

    • What does it mean to be an HRI researcher? What are required skill sets in industry & academia?

    • How should we be training future HRI researchers for industry and academic career paths?

    • Since HRI can touch on all aspects of a robot system, how much HRI should robot hardware and software developers know?

    • How can HRI researchers with interdisciplinary backgrounds integrate successfully with hardware and software development teams? How much technical background do they need to know?

 

Contributions

The special session contributions will go through the same peer review process as regular track papers, and the accepted manuscripts will appear in the Ro-Man23 proceedings. 

Please follow the directions as provided in the conference website: http://ro-man2023.org/paperSubmission/papersubmission

In Steps 3 and 4, select “Special Session Paper” under the First Submission category, and enter the following code to submit to our session.

  • Special Session Submission Code: an7c7

Organizers

  • Hae Won Park (Amazon Lab126 and MIT)

  • Bill Smart (Amazon Lab126 and Oregon State University)

  • Ross Mead (Semio)

  • Chien-Ming Huang (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Anastasia K. Ostrowski (MIT)

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InfoWare 2023 Program Posted

 

InfoWare 2023 Program Posted

 

 

Dear Chairs, Speakers, Contributors, and Committee Members,

The program for the InfoWare 2023 Congress is now posted with links to presentations, videos where available, and direct link to the articles in the ThinkMind Digital Library. The program sites will be permanently available, so feel free to access the material at your leisure. Any additional material that arrives will be added to the program

https://www.iaria.org/conferences2023/ProgramICCGI23.html

This takes place at the same time with the InfoSys 2023 Congress with the program available at

https://www.iaria.org/conferences2023/ProgramICNS23.html

 

We would like to thank everyone involved in this event. There are still some challenges that we face as we try to get back to normal on site conferences. The event will be a mix of on site, live events, and presentations available online.

To that respect we would like to point scheduled live presentations:

 

1. SIGNAL 2023 Article: Comparison of Different Speech Features for Connected Number Recognition of Indian Vernacular Languages

Authors: Mayurakshi Mukherji, Shreyas Kulkarni, Vivek Kumar, Senthil Raja G, Thiruvengadam Samon, Kingshuk Banerjee, Yuichi Nonaka

Date: Wednesday, March 15
Time: 2pm – 3pm Barcelona // 9am – 10am Ney York // 3pm – 4pm Athens // 9pm – 10pm Beijing
Meeting ID: 825 5113 2742
Passcode: 60064
Zoom access link

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2. SIGNAL 2023 Article: A Refined ERR-based Method for Nonlinear System Identification. Application to Epilepsy.

Authors: Marc Greige, Ahmad Karfoul, Isabelle Merlet, Régine Le Bouquin Jeannès

Date: Wednesday, March 15
Time: 3pm – 4pm Barcelona // 10am – 11am Ney York // 4pm – 5pm Athens // 10pm – 11pm Beijing
Meeting ID: 915 9158 0425
Passcode: 2023
Zoom access link

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3. VEHICULAR 2023 Keynote: Optimal and Secured Control using V2V Information: from Powertrain to Multiple Autonomous Vehicles

Prof. Dr. Hong Wang, ORNL USA

Date: Thursday, March 16
Time: 4pm – 5pm Barcelona // 11am – 12pm Ney York // 5pm – 6pm Athens // 11pm – 12am Beijing
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4. ENERGY 2023 Keynote: Cybersecurity in Power Systems

Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany

Date: Friday, March 17
Time: 3pm – 4pm Barcelona // 10am – 11am Ney York // 4pm – 5pm Athens // 10pm – 11pm Beijing
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We hope that you can make time for these presentations.

 

Best wishes,

7th WorldS4 2023 – ( Proceedings by Springer ) : London, UK

http://www.worlds4.co.uk/

Important Date: 

April 7th 2023 [ Early Bird Paper Submission ]

May 5th 2023 [ Regular Paper Submission ]

Platform & Venue  : Physical – London, UK & Digital : Zoom

Publication : All World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability 2023 accepted/selected from Conference Tracks [ Track 1 – Track 4 ] will be published in volumes of LNNS Book series by Springer **. 

Indexing : The accepted papers are Indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. All books published in the series are submitted for consideration in Web of Science.

Previous Publication : Past conference proceedings are already Published & Indexed in these databases : https://worlds4.co.uk/publication.html

Papers Submission : Authors are kindly invited to submit their formatted full papers including results, tables, figures and references. All submissions are handled through the Worlds4 Conference Portal at : https://www.worlds4.co.uk/call-for-paper.html#section03

Organizing & Associated Partners : Global Knowledge Research Foundation, G R Scholastic LLP, Springer, Springer Nature

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Original contributions from researchers describing their original, unpublished, research contribution which is not currently under review by another conference or journal and addressing state-of-the-art research are invited to share their work in all areas of Systems, Security and Sustainability and its applications in field OF engineering and management but not limited to the conference tracks : https://worlds4.co.uk/call-for-paper.html#section04

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

  • Track 1: INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMPUTATION
  • Track 2: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
  • Track 3: E-GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNMENT
  • Track 4: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND HEALTH INFORMATICS 

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