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IEEE RO-MAN 2021 Virtual Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction for Beginners: Supporting New Researchers (CRIB 2021)

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The first-ever half-day workshop on Child-Robot Interaction for Beginners: Supporting New Researchers (CRIB 2021) will be held online as part of IEEE RO-MAN 2021 (https://ro-man2021.org) on Sunday August 8th @ 2:00 PM (GMT).

Workshop Website: https://cs.umanitoba.ca/crib

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 9, 2021

Notification of Acceptance: July 19, 2021

Workshop date: Sunday August 8, 2021 @ 2:00 PM (GMT) 

Call for Participation

We invite researchers to participate in the first workshop on Child-Robot Interaction for Beginners: Supporting New Researchers (CRIB 2021). This workshop will provide a forum for experienced researchers in Child-Robot Interaction to pass down their knowledge to researchers new to the field. We welcome two types of submissions:

1. Researchers with experience conducting research in Child-Robot Interaction should submit 2-page abstracts (excluding references) providing lessons learned, guidelines, advice, or experiences related to Child-Robot Interaction research
2. Researchers new to the field of Child-Robot Interaction are welcome to submit 1-page questions, discussion points, or planned/ongoing research to be explored during the workshop

Selected submissions will be presented by the authors during the workshop, with the opportunity for attendees to ask questions and engage in discussion. Authors should keep in mind the objectives of the workshop as stated below.

The objectives of the workshop are as follows:

• To discuss the highs and lows of conducting research in Child-Robot Interaction, sharing lessons and advice
• To develop a set of guidelines for new researchers in Child-Robot interaction, to act as a reference when designing and planning research
• To support the creation of a welcoming community of researchers in times when it may be difficult for junior researchers to reach out, and create a network of advice amongst senior and junior researchers who are currently or would like to conduct studies with children and robots
• To discuss different methodological approaches that experienced researchers use to conduct research in child-robot interaction, and arrive at key unified principles for research in this area

Submissions can be within, but are not limited to, the following themes in Child-Robot Interaction:

• Research methods
• Experimental design
• Interdisciplinary science
• Reproducible science
• Ethical concerns

Keynote Speakers:

Tony Belpaeme (Ghent University, Plymouth University)

Vicky Charisi (European Commission, JRC, Centre for Advanced Studies)

Sofia Serholt (University of Gothenburg)

Submissions should follow the IEEE two-column format, using one of the following templates: MS-Word or LaTeX. Submissions should be formatted as PDFs and submitted through EasyChair.

Organizers

Denise Geiskkovitch (University of Manitoba, Simon Fraser University

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa (Chalmers University of Technology)

Nils Frederik Tolksdorf (Paderborn University)

David Cameron (The University of Sheffield)

Rebecca Stower(Jacobs University Bremen)