PLOT-HRI19: Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction workshop EXCO Convention Center Daegu, South Korea, March 11, 2019 |
Conference website | https://longtermpersonalizationhri.github.io/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plothri19 |
Submission deadline | January 25, 2019 |
Call for Submissions to the full-day HRI 2019 Workshop on Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (PLOT-HRI19)
The full-day workshop will be held in Daegu, Korea on Monday on March 11, 2019 in conjunction with the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Website: https://longtermpersonalizationhri.github.io
Important Dates
Submission deadline: Feb 12th, 2019 (11:59 PM PT)
Notification of acceptance: Feb 26th, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: March 4th, 2019
Overview
Long-term human-robot interaction is essential in many areas, such as for companion robots, rehabilitation, and education. However, interactions based on fixed collections of behaviors can become repetitive over time, causing user engagement to decrease after the novelty effect wears off. Personalization can help improve user engagement in long-term interactions, by adapting to the user’s personality, preferences, needs, or by recalling shared memories with the user. Moreover, personalizing the interaction can facilitate establishing rapport and trust between the user and the robot. However, long-term studies in human-robot interaction require a substantial amount of resources, especially if the robots are deployed “in the wild”, and do not always provide generalizable results due to the variability of subject needs, which makes it challenging for researchers to publish their results.
The “Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction” workshop focuses on studies on adaptivity to users, context, environment, and tasks in long-term interactions in a variety of fields (e.g. companion robots, collaborative tasks, education, rehabilitation, elderly care). We intend to create a medium for researchers to share their work in progress, to introduce their preliminary results, and to share and discuss with other researchers about the problems they have encountered during their studies and their respective solutions. Consequently, the workshop will consist of presentations of the accepted papers through short (for 2 page papers) and full talks (for 3-4 pages), keynotes and interactive brainstorming activities to identify the problems that can arise in long-term HRI and find solutions using available technologies.
Submission Guidelines
We invite short papers of 2-4 pages (plus additional pages for references and appendices), including work in progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys and state-of-the-art research of personal robots in a variety of fields (e.g. companion robots, education, rehabilitation, elderly care) and long-term studies in any of these fields. The short papers should consist of an abstract, introduction underlying the main research question or the motivation of the work, related work, methodology, and the (preliminary) results if any, along with a description of future work. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for their relevance, novelty and scientific and technical soundness. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal. Accepted papers will require at least one author to be registered for and attend the workshop.
All manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair, using IEEE format provided below. Supplementary materials (such as videos) can be uploaded or they can be provided as external links within the submission.
Submission site (EasyChair): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plothri19
IEEE templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ieee-conference-template-example/nsncsyjfmpxy
List of Topics
We encourage researchers and students from HRI, robotics, cognitive science, rehabilitation and educational backgrounds to contribute.
The workshop welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:
- Personalization in HRI for companion robots, collaborative tasks, education, rehabilitation, elderly care
- Adaptation algorithms for long-term interactions
- User modeling
- Long-term memory (episodic, semantic, associative)
- User recognition
- Long-term HRI studies
- Conversational agents in long-term interactions
- Engagement in long-term HRI
- Evaluation in long-term HRI
- Challenges/Guidelines for field studies in long-term HRI
- Design and methodologies for repeated human-robot interactions
- Autonomy in long-term interaction
Invited Speakers
- Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan
- Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France
- Hae Won Park, MIT Media Lab Personal Robots Group, USA
- Ognjen Rudovic, MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Group, USA
Organizing Committee
- Bahar Irfan, Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth, UK
- Aditi Ramachadran, Social Robotics Lab, Yale University, USA
- Samuel Spaulding, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab, USA
- Dylan F. Glas, Futurewei Technologies, Huawei, USA
- Iolanda Leite, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
- Kheng Lee Koay, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizers at: aditi.ramachandran AT yale DOT edu, bahar.irfan AT plymouth DOT ac DOT uk