APR 2018: ICRA 2018 Workshop on Animated and Real Life Personal Robots The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Venue Brisbane, Australia, May 21, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/site/icra2018workshop/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apr2018 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2018 |
Notification of acceptation | April 30, 2018 |
The vision of the personal robot has generally been shaped by human perceptions of robots through media and animation. The movie industry has produced animated robot movies for generation across genres with great successes while the advancement in AI is narrowing the gap between fiction and reality.
To animate, and the related words, animation, animated and animator all derive from the Latin verb, animare, which means ‘to give life to'. In the context of robotics, this involves the design and programming of attributes in order to create the illusion of life. Anthropomorphism, the suspension of disbelief, aesthetics, observation, storytelling, performance, articulation of personality through movement and gesture, and the physiological and psychological nature of character are all aspects of animation that animators deal with on a daily basis. In the meantime, researchers have been working relentlessly in the pursuit of bringing human-like capabilities to machines through AI.
In this workshop we would like to explore the principals and practice of animators drawing in from their experience that delivered us robot characters we come to love and adore. Their skills together with the techniques of robotics can contribute immensely in giving ‘the illusion of life’ to personal robots and assist in enhancing human-robot interaction experience.
Submission Guidelines
We invite interested researchers to submit your work or ideas addressing topics related to the workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically with two-column format in the IEEE style. The length of submitted Paper should be up to 6 pages. The reviewing process is single blind. The accepted papers will have the opportunity to present your work/ideas in a poster session or oral presentation. We are currently considering the publication of the accepted papers to a special issue or a book chapter.
List of Topics
• Animation in robotics design
• Aesthetics, Movement and the Uncanny Valley
• Anthropomorphism, hyper realism and robotics: to be or not to be
• The principles of animation and Human-robotic interaction
• The performative robot
• Facial animation and communication
• Attributes and emotion
• Designing for Empathy
• Emotional Affordance and the animator's toolkit
• Socially Intelligent Robots
• Collaborative Robotics
• Human Robot Interaction
• Human Behaviour Modeling
• Affective Computing
• Mutual shaping of robots and human
• Performance metrics and benchmarking
• Designing and animating life
• Body language and communication
• Suspension of Disbelief
• Evaluation of the affects of mimicry and originality in robot design
• Paralanguage and the communicative robot
• Navigating the languages of science and design in robotics
Organizing committee
Randy Gomez , Honda Research Institute Japan
Deborah Szapiro, University of Technology Sydney
Luis Merino , University of Pablo Olavide
Guangliang Li , Ocean University of China
Keisuke Nakamura , Honda Research Institute Japan
Manuel Muehlig , Honda Research Institute Europe
Bert Bongers , University of Technology Sydney
Hiroshi Okuno , Waseda University and Kyoto University
Venue
The conference will be held at The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Venue in Brisbane Austrialia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Guangliang Li (guangliangli@ouc.edu.cn)