We are pleased to announce the following workshop offered in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017):
WORKSHOP
CARobots: Automated Driving Systems as Robots on Four Wheels
Lisbon, Portugal; August 28th, 2017
colocated with RO-MAN 2017 (http://www.ro-man2017.org)
Workshop website: http://www.andreasriener.com/RO-MAN17CARobots/
Submission deadline: June 25th, 2017
OBJECTIVE: AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS (ADSs) AS SPECIFIC ROBOTS
We argue that automated driving systems (ADSs) are robots on four wheels and the design of such vehicles is similar as the design of traditional robots. Questions, such as “How to design ADSs that evokes trust in its drivers?”, “How to avoid overtrust?”, “How should ethics be programmed in an ADS?”, etc., are closely related to similar questions asked in the domain of industrial robots or robots for human assistance. Then again, solutions of how to hand-over the control from an ADS to the driver and vice versa is interesting from human-robot interaction perspective. In this workshop we bring together researchers, designers and practitioners in the field of ADS design and human-robot interaction. The aim of the workshop is to bridge the two communities by positioning paper presentations and group discussions. As special output we strive for a special issue in a dedicated journal (e.g., Journal of Human-Robot Interaction).
WORKSHOP THEMES
Potential topics to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to the following OBJECTIVES:
- Which characteristics do automated driving systems (ADSs) and other robots share?
- How do autonomy levels of ADSs and those in other robots differ?
- What can we learn from the state-of-the-art in HRI for the design of ADSs?
- What ethical considerations can we adapt from traditional HRI to facilitate the design of ADSs and vice versa?
- How does interaction between humans and robots and between humans and ADSs differ?
- What can the current HRI community learn from researchers and practitioners in the field of ADSs UI design?
- What can both communities learn from each other in terms of interaction studies, both in the lab and in the field?
- What methods and theories are applied in HRI and what methods and theories build the common ground for ADS interaction design? What do they have in common? How do they differ?
- Different cultural regions have different moral standards. How can we make sure that robots/vehicles with different normative systems can interact with users in a “unified friendly way”?
- Considering multi-robot settings (home robots, tele-operation, ADSs, etc.): What conflict resolution strategies, i.e., when reaching a deadlock, are applied? Communalities between robots and ADSs?
- Who should be the one to make ethical decisions, in particular in situations with potentially fatal consequences? Humans (strong intuition, unreliable, consistent with Asimov’s first rule) or robots (precise, robust, inconsistent with Asimov’s first rule)?
SUBMISSIONS
The target audience for this workshop are researchers and practitioners in the HRI community, who are interested in the field of automated cars. Besides that, we also invite HCI/UI designers (with affinity to the vehicle domain) and ADSs engineers that are interested in HRI.
We invite participants to submit 1-4 page position papers (in the IEEE format used for the RO-MAN main conference) describing a crisp, self-contained problem in the field of the workshop. Successful submissions will have the potential to raise discussion, provide insights for other attendees, or illustrate problems and provide potential solutions.
Please submit your contribution via Email to andreas.riener@thi.de and use the template provided by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society at http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/
Submissions need not to be anonymous. However, reviews will be done anonymously using an evaluation form. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. The selection of workshop participants will be done by a review process. Final decisions of accepting or rejecting a paper will be made by the organizers of the workshop based on the review scores and with respect to offering all workshop participants an interesting, diversified program.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE WORKSHOP
- Submission deadline: June 25th, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: July 9th, 2017
- Camera ready version due: July 20th, 2017
- Workshop date: August 28th, 2017 (09:00AM-12:20PM)
Please feel free to contact the organizers at any time.
ORGANIZERS
Andreas Riener, University of Applied Sciences, Ingolstadt, DE
Alexander Meschtscherjakov, Center for HCI, University of Salzburg, AT
Alexander Mirnig, Center for HCI, University of Salzburg, AT
Manuel Giuliani, Center for HCI, University of Salzburg, AT
Manfred Tscheligi, Center for HCI, University of Salzburg, AT
Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon, Michigan Technological University, MI, US
Zhi “Jenny” Zheng, Michigan Technological University, MI, US
Chung Hyuk Park, George Washington University, Washington DC, US
WEBSITE & CONTACT
Workshop website: http://www.andreasriener.com/RO-MAN17CARobots/
Contact: andreas.riener@thi.de
For more details see the workshop website!