First International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots
http://loverobots.mixedrealitylab.org/

At ACE (Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology) 2014
November 11-14, 2014
Funchal, Madeira
http://www.ace2014.info/

Introduction

Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.

List of Topics

Congress sessions are planned on the following topics, inter alia:

• Robot Emotions
• Humanoid Robots
• Clone Robots
• Entertainment Robots
• Robot Personalities
• Teledildonics
• Intelligent electronic sex hardware
• Gender Approaches
• Affective Approaches
• Psychological Approaches
• Sociological Approaches
• Roboethics
• Philosophical Approaches

General Chairs

Professor Adrian Cheok
City University London
Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk

Dr. David Levy
Intelligent Toys Ltd. London
davidlevylondon@yahoo.com

Academic Committee

• Professor Yorick Wilks
• Professor Elisabeth Andre
• Professor Alexiei Dingli
• Professor Jaap van den Herik
• Dr. Trudy Barber

Program Committee

• Professor Yorick Wilks
• Professor Alexiei Dingli
• Dr. Patrick Gebhard
• Professor Jaap van den Herik
• Dr. Trudy Barber

Call for Papers

Submission of extended abstract or full paper (up to 8 pages) and each submission will receive at least two reviews. We request that for those papers that are accepted on the basis of their extended abstracts, the final submitted papers be limited to 8 pages. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the Congress, with the proviso that at least one author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general congress activities.

Submission should be done at the EasyChair website by following the link below. Please make sure to select the correct track on ACE submission page.

Format

All submissions to use the ACM SIGCHI extended abstract and paper format:  http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform

Important Dates

30th Sep ’14 – Deadline for submission of extended abstracts
14th Oct ’14 – Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions
24th Oct ’14 – Final versions of accepted papers (camera ready copy)

Contact Us

robot@ace2014.info

This congress is a part of ACE (Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology) 2014­­­ Conferences.