[Also see the related ISPR Presence News post “Call: 1st Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Wellbeing: Socially Adaptive Robots (at RO-MAN 2022)” –Matthew]
Call for Papers
AR4W: The 1st Workshop on “Affective Robotics For Wellbeing”
Co-located with ACII 2022, 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction
October 17th, 2022 (tentative)
Nara, Japan
Workshop: https://sites.google.com/rosielab.ca/ar4w2022/
ACII 2022: https://acii-conf.net/2022/
Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2022
We kindly invite you to participate and submit your paper contributions to the ACII 2022 workshop “AR4W: Affective Robotics For Wellbeing”, to be held in October 17th, 2022 in Nara, Japan.
The main topic of our workshop will be affective robotics for well-being, which aligns strongly with the ACII 2022 main theme of affective computing for mental and physical well-being that invites research work that “utilises Affective Computing to address the negative consequences on mental and physical well-being brought about by the current challenging circumstances”.
The main objective of this workshop is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to identify and address key challenges for studying affective robotics for well-being and its relevant applications in the lab and in the field. The workshop aims at:
i) including the advances in affective computing and machine learning into social robotics context;
ii) investigating the crucial topic of well-being in clinical and non-clinical contexts during a post-pandemic era; and
iii) advancing the field of affective computing applied to social robotics focusing on open challenges.
We invite authors to submit their contributions either as regular paper (6-8 pages long) or position papers (2-4 pages long), using the format provided by ACII (https://acii-conf.net/2022/calls/).
The full Call for Papers, including instructions for the submissions, can be found on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/cfp/ar4w2022).
IMPORTANT DATES
- Call for papers deadline: 30th June 2022
- Notification of acceptance: 30th July 2022
- Camera-ready deadline: 15th August 2022
- Workshop day: 17th October 2022
LIST OF TOPICS
- (Multimodal) Affective robotics for well-being
- Affective cognitive architectures
- Socially assistive robots for well-being
- Affective robotic design for well-being
- User studies for well-being (both in lab and field)
- Affective and social adaptation and personalization for well-being applications
- Machine learning for well-being
- Concept papers on affective robotics for well-being
- Methods to measure well-being
- Ethics, privacy, ata security and responsible innovation considerations
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Micol Spitale, University of Cambridge
- Angelica Lim, Simon Fraser University
- Katie Winkle, Uppsala University
- Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge
SPECIAL ISSUE
We are guest editing a Special Issue as part of the International Journal of Social Robotics entitled ‘Embodied Agents for Wellbeing’. Selected papers from the workshop submissions will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to this special issue. Submissions to the special issue will undergo a peer review process as per the International Journal of Social Robotics guidelines.
CONTACT
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ms2871@cam.ac.uk.