BAILAR 2018: The 3rd Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics Tai'An, China, August 30, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.cogrobotics.unina.it/bailar2018/index.php |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bailar2018 |
Submission deadline | June 25, 2018 |
The 3rd Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics – BAILAR 2018
@Ro-MAN2018 http://ro-man2018.org/
Date: August 30, 2018
Location: Nanjing, China
Website: http://www.cogrobotics.unina.it/bailar2018/index.php
NEWS: Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended/revised version to a Special Issue of Behavior Adaptation and Artificial Perception for Assistive Robotics on the International Journal of Social Robotics
WORKSHOP AIM & SCOPE
With robots getting out of the cages, Human-Robot Interaction applications’ effectiveness has not only to rely on the skills of trained users but also on robots’ ability to adapt on the fly to the users’ behavior, needs, and motivations. In particular, the development of personal robots, as assistive technological tools, challenges researchers to develop socially intelligent and adaptive robots that can collaborate with people.
Personal robots are expected to incrementally learn user preferences, to learn categories of user preferences experienced during past interactions (so that they do not start each new interaction from scratch), and to modify and adapt their behaviors accordingly. This adaptation requires learning a model of human behavior and integrating this model into the decision-making algorithm of the robot. Efficient on the fly adaptation also requires model-free learning abilities to cope with local uncertainties of the environment, variations of the human’s desires and motivations, and volatilities of the interaction itself. Thus, creating robotic systems capable of correctly modeling and recognizing the human behavior and of adapting their behavior to the user is a very critical task, especially in the domain of assistive and social robotics and when working with vulnerable user populations.
Robots should also be able to consider psychological aspects, for instance performing a cognitive assessment via human-robot interaction, to better adapt the robot behavior to the person’s mental status. This is particularly relevant for assisting the elderly and children with developmental disabilities.
Additionally, this workshop aims at examining and promoting recent developments in the robotics field and future directions including the related challenges and how these can be overcome with particular focus on computational intelligence methodologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Social Robots
- Assistive Robotics
- User Profiling
- Adaptive Behavior
- Activity Recognition
- Intention Recognition
- Multi-sensor fusion
- Proxemics
- Learning
- Adaptive Planning
- Ambient Assisted Living
- HRI and Personalization
- Coordination and Communication in Robotic Teams
- Emergent and Adaptive Behaviour in Robotics
- Cognitive Architectures for Robots
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Rachid Alami, Robotics and Interactions group at LAAS, CNRS, Toulouse, (France)
- Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, (Sweden)
- Mark Neerincx, Delft University of Technology, (Nederlands)
IMPORTANT DATES
5th July 2018 – Paper Submission Deadline14th July 2018 – Notification of Acceptance- 30th July 2018 – Camera-ready Deadline
- 30th August 2018 – BAILAR@Ro-MAN 2018, Nanjing, China
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We welcome prospective participants to submit either full papers (up to 6 pages) or extended abstracts (up to 2 pages). Papers can be on research that the authors have already conducted, but we especially encourage papers on new ideas or research that the authors plan to conduct. The manuscripts should conform to the RO-MAN18 guidelines. Each paper will receive a minimum of two reviews. Accepted papers require that at least one of the authors register to the workshop.
Please submit a PDF copy of your manuscript through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bailar2018
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended/revised version to a Special Issue of Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics on the International Journal of Social Robotics.
MAIN ORGANIZER:
- Mariacarla Staffa, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
CO-ORGANIZERS:
- Mehdi Khamassi, French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS (France)
- Daniela Conti, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)