The main objective of this workshop is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to identify and address key challenges for studying socio-emotionally adaptive robots for wellbeing and its relevant aspect for socially assistive robots in the lab and in the field. The workshop aims at (1) including the advances in affective computing and machine learning into social robotics context; (2) investigating the crucial topic of wellbeing in clinical and non-clinical contexts during a post-pandemic era; and (3) advancing the field of social robotics in a situated context focusing on open challenges.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the fields of Social Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Affective Computing, Wellbeing, Design, Adaptive Machine Learning, Ethics, Social Sciences, etc. to discuss topics related to the use of robots as assistant/companion/coach for wellbeing, the issues they face to personalize to the individual avoiding to being perceived as antisocial or asocial in the domestic context.

We invite authors to submit their contributions either regular paper (6-8 pages long) or position papers (2-4 pages long), using the format provided by RO-MAN (http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/call-for-papers/). All papers are to be submitted via the submission system of EasyChair. In tandem with this workshop, we are preparing a Special Issue proposal that we will submit to the Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for this special issue (we will also issue an open call). Submissions to the special issue will go through a separate peer review process.

We plan to publish a Special Issue containing contributions from workshop participants as well as other researchers working on related works to collect the knowledge and insights gained during the workshop. We are currently preparing a Special Issue proposal to be submitted to the International Journal of Social robotics.

Committees

Organizing committee

• Micol Spitale, Postdoc at Affective Intelligence & Robotics (AFAR) LabDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
• Sooyeon Jeong, PhD Student at Personal Robots GroupMedia Lab, MIT
• Emilia Barakova, Assistant Professor of Socially Intelligent Systems and Leader of Social Robotics Lab
• Hatice Gunes, Director of Affective Intelligence & Robotics (AFAR) LabDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hri4wellbeing@gmail.com