AAAI Fall Symposium: AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) November 9-11, 2017 — Arlington, Virginia, USA https://ai-hri.github.io/ Submission Deadline (Extended): July 27, 2017 AI-HRI (The AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)) seeks to bring together the subset of the HRI community focused on the application of AI solutions to HRI problems. Building on the success of the three previous years’ symposia, the central purpose of this year’s symposium is to address the statements “HRI is an AI problem” and “AI is an HRI problem”. The symposium will include current research talks and discussions both to share…

Call for Abstracts Artificial Ethics: moral and practical challenges University of Southampton | Department of Philosophy 18th and 19th December 2017 In association with the Southampton Ethics Centre and the University of Southampton Research Group in Autonomous Systems Deadline: October 23, 2017 We invite extended abstracts on the theme of machine ethics. Autonomous systems are set to become ever more integrated into human society. We have self-driving cars, pilotless aircraft. There are systems approving mortgages and offering financial advice. This symposium will explore the ethical challenges – both theoretical and practical – which surround the development and implementation of such…

Special Issue (Research Topic) on “Cognitive Aspects of Interactive Technology Use: From Computers to Smart Objects and Autonomous Agents” at Frontiers in Psychology Journal http://www.frontiersin.org/Cognitive_Science/researchtopics/Cognitive_Aspects_of_Interactive_Technology_Use_From_Computers_to_Smart_Objects_and_Autonomous_Agents/5739 Submission deadline: Nov 15, 2017 MOTIVATION Although several researchers have questioned the idea that human technology use is rooted in unique “superior” cognitive skills, it still appears that only humans are capable of producing and interacting with complex technologies. Different paradigms and cognitive models of “human-computer interaction” have been proposed in recent years to ground the development of novel devices and account for how humans integrate them in their daily life. Psychology has been involved…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Synthetic Method and Robotic Design Workshop A Focus on Morphology and Body Dynamics Facilitating Social Interaction @ICDL-Epirob 2017, Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.icdl-epirob.org) September, 18, 2017 Co-organizers: L. Damiano (University of Messina, Messina, Italy) I. Ocnarescu (Strate Design School, Paris, France) Website: http://smrd2017.weebly.com/ Deadline: August, 7, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: August, 17, 2017 Contact: ldamiano@unime.it; i.ocnarescu@stratecollege.fr SMRD 2017 is a frontier cross-disciplinary workshop dedicated to discuss ways, goals, possibilities and limits of the application of the Synthetic Method to the design of body parts and dynamics for social robots that can facilitate their social interactions with humans.…

Call for Papers ECCE 2017 Workshop on Robots in Contexts: Human-Robot Interaction as Physically and Socially Embedded September 19, 2017, Umeå, Sweden http://ecce2017.eace.net Submission deadline: July 31, 2017 This one-day workshop will be held as part of ECCE 2017 (the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Umeå, Sweden, September 20-22, 2017, ecce2017.eace.net) The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended papers to the Special Issue on Robots in Context (www.degruyter.com/page/1540) THEME AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP Robotic technologies are being increasingly integrated into real life settings. The adoption of robots by the society is transcending the initial…