Call for Papers
LSR 2017
Third International Congress on Love and Sex With Robots
19-20 December, 2017
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
http://loveandsexwithrobots.org/
Submission Deadline: 1 August 2017
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.
The International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots provides an excellent opportunity for academics and industry professionals to present and discuss their innovative work and ideas in an academic symposium.
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
SUBMISSIONS
Papers should be 7+ pages (excluding references). Paper length must match the size of the contribution.
Papers will be subjected to a double blind peer review by a panel of domain experts. Each paper will be reviewed by a minimum of 3 qualified, independent reviewers. Submissions will be included in the conference proceedings with the proviso that at least one author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general congress activities.
All submissions must use the Springer CS Proceedings format. Latex and Microsoft Word templates are available for download at this link:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 1 August 2017, 23:59 (GMT)
Notification: 15 September 2017
Conference: 19-20 December, 2017
COMMITTEE
Professor Adrian Cheok
City University London
Dr. Kate Devlin
Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr. David Levy
Intelligent Toys Ltd. London
Program Committee
Alexiei Dingli, University Of Malta
Jaap Van Den Herik, Leiden University
Patrick Gebhard, Dfki, Germany
Trudy Barber, University of Portsmouth
Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory, Atr
Vic Grout, Glyndwr University
Cristina Portales, Universitat De València
Emma Yann Zhang, Imagineering Institute
Sumayya Ebrahim, University of Johannesburg
Julie Wosk, State University of New York, Maritime College
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta
Eleanor Hancock, University of Bristol
Mikhail Tank, Nil
Riley Richards, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Chamari Edirisinghe, Imagineering Institute
Yuefang Zhou, University of St Andrews
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