[Note: See the conference website for information about these other special sessions:
- Hand-Object Interaction: from Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation
- Short- and Long-Term Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction
- Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-care Service Robots
- Mental Models of the Human User in Social HRI
- Safe Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manufacturing Environments
- Nonverbal Communication Skills in Humans and Robots
–Matthew]
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL SESSION Theory of Mind for social HRI
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
August 29th – September 2nd, 2022
Naples, Italy and Online [See NOTE below]
http://ro-man2022.org
Important dates for Regular and Special Session papers:
- Submission deadline: March 15, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2022
- Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2022
NOTE: RO-MAN 2022 will be held in a hybrid format, including simultaneous on-site and online sessions. Authors will have the options to present their work and interact with participants either physically in Napoli or virtually.
The ability of understanding and acknowledging others’ mental states is known as Theory of Mind (ToM). Theory of Mind is a multi-modal system used by people to naturally communicate and understand each other. A growing group of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research focuses on investigating whether people form ToM towards robots, and what level of ToM a robot should have to communicate transparently with the humans in their shared environment in a sociable and accepted way. In this session, we want to probe deeper in the principal lines that can contribute towards this research direction. In particular, we aim to define and explore the needed level of shared mental models between people and robots for effectively planning, navigating, manipulating objects and the environment, and transparently communicating.
The topics covered in this special session include, but are not limited to:
- Cognitive robotics
- Mental models in HRI
- Robot etiquette
- Theory of Mind in HRI
- XAI in HRI
- Cooperation and collaboration in human-robot teams
- Detection and understanding human activity
- Monitoring of behaviour and internal states of humans
- Motion planning and navigation in human-centred environments
- Multi-modal situation awareness and spatial cognition
- Social intelligence for robots in interactive and non-interactive tasks
ABOUT RO-MAN and RO-MAN 2022
The RO-MAN conference is a leading forum where state-of-the-art innovative results, the latest developments as well as future perspectives relating to robot and human interactive communication are presented and discussed. The conference covers a wide range of topics related to Robot and Human Interactive Communication, involving theories, methodologies, technologies, empirical and experimental studies. Proposals related to the study of robotic technology, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, human factors, ethics and policies, interaction-based robot design and other topics related to human-robot interaction are welcome.
This year’s theme is “Social, asocial, and antisocial robots”. One of its goals is to explore how to create robots that are capable of being welcomed as our assistants and companions in society while, at the same time, not being perceived as “asocial” or “antisocial”. A second aim is to understand how we can create robots perceived as facilitators of the natural development of human beings and communities, rather than obstacles.
TEMPLATES AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via Papercept using the code for the special issue: 1y123
For the first submission, a manuscript can be of 6-8 pages including references. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, with 2 additional pages allowed at an extra charge.
Authors will have to declare that the research presented in the submitted papers complies with the IEEE Code of Ethics.
Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic submission system. The templates for US Letter format paper should be used. The manuscript submission website will require that you submit your abstract and make any final changes to the author list and title of the paper before uploading the paper. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX or MS-Word.
ORGANISERS
Dr. Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II (IT), alessandra.rossi@unina.it
Dr. Patrick Holthaus, University of Hertfordshire (UK), p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk
Dr. Shruti Chandra, University of Waterloo (CA), shruti.chandra@uwaterloo.ca