NF18: New Friends 2018 - The 3rd international conference on social robots in therapy and education Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Panama City, Panama, June 26-29, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.newfriends2018.online/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nf18 |
Submission deadline | April 29, 2018 |
Call for contributions
NEW FRIENDS 2018
The 3rd international conference on social robots in therapy and education
Universidad Technologica de Panama
Panama City, June 27-29 2018
The application of social robots in therapy and education is an emerging field as these ‘new friends’ become more sophisticated, available and affordable. In recent years there has been an enormous increase of projects in which they are used successfully for groups with special needs, like people with dementia, hospitalized children and children with autism. This increases the demand for expertise from a wide range of disciplines, like psychology, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, AI, robotics and education to meet the technical opportunities with the development of therapeutic and educational practice.
To make this happen, the international and multidisciplinary conference New Friends 2018 brings together researchers, professionals, students from different disciplines of health, social welfare and education and developers in the fields of AI social robotics, ICT and business.
The event features keynotes, oral and poster presentations, product and business demonstrations, competitions and practice oriented workshops, covering:
- practitioners’ perspective of end users’ needs,
- good examples of trials, practice and intervention guidelines, interdisciplinary collaboration,
- technical innovations in robotics,
- related therapeutic or educational developments,
- theoretical studies and empirical research, including related HRI issues,
- related legal, ethical, philosophical and social issues
We invite researchers, practitioners and students from different fields to contribute to this conference with:
Extended abstracts, sized two pages. Authors of accepted abstracts will present their work in oral or poster sessions. Moreover, they will be invited to submit full papers to be considered for publishing in a special issue of the Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics.
Videos, two to five minutes length, accompanied by an abstract of one page.
Workshop proposals, for one to three hour workshops, aimed at professionals or students and researchers in applied research in this field.
Demonstrations, proposed in a one page abstract
Important dates
- April 29, 2018 – Notification of acceptance for Workshop Proposals (24.00 PST)
- April 29, 2018 – Deadline for regular papers
- April 29, 2018 – Deadline for posters, demos, and videos (24.00 PST)
- May 10, 2018 – Notification of acceptance for regular papers (24.00 PST)
- May 10, 2018 – Notification of acceptance for regular posters, demos, and videos (24.00 PST)
- May 15, 2018 – Deadline for LBR (24.00 PST)
- May 19, 2018 – Notification of acceptance for LBR (24.00 PST)
More information and submission: https://www.newfriends2018.online/