Call for Papers
SCRITA 2023: Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction
Co-located with IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
Paradise Hotel, Busan, Korea
August 28, 2023
Workshop: http://scrita.herts.ac.uk
RO-MAN 2023: http://ro-man2023.org/
Submission deadline: June 30, 2023
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scrita2023
STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
People’s ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and robots. While advanced progress is made in studying and evaluating the factors affecting people’s acceptance and trust in robots in controlled or short-term (repeated interactions) settings, developing service and personal robots that are accepted and trusted by people still presents an open challenge for scientists in robotics, AI and HRI. In such unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios, robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to predict and understand each other’s behaviours. This workshop focuses on identifying the challenges and dynamics between people and robots to foster short interactions and long-lasting relationships in different fields, from educational, service, collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. For that, this workshop aims to facilitate a discussion about people’s trust towards robots “in the wild”, inviting workshop participants to contribute their past experiences and lessons learnt.
Moreover, from previous editions and recent literature, it is also clear that the field of HRI field lacks measures that can effectively and unmistakably assess people’s trust in robots. Several questionnaires exist, however, most of them are adapted from different fields or different purposes, or they are created ad-hoc by the experimenters. In the first case, measures do not always reflect appropriately, while in the latter case, questions might be ambiguous and their interpretation is left to the individual participant. Moreover, they do not always consider the variety of factors affecting trust, and, as a consequence, fail to comprehensively represent such trust. In this workshop, we will therefore work together with leading researchers and exceptional speakers from various fields to not only produce groundbreaking research to effectively design socially acceptable and trustable robots to be deployed “in the wild” but also jointly develop novel methods to assess people’s trust towards them.
AUDIENCE AND TOPICS
The workshop will be open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user-profiling. Moreover, since one of the purposes of this workshop will be to draft a questionnaire that researchers can use to assess the different aspects that influence people’s acceptance of and trust in robots, we will also invite researchers from other fields. In particular, we want to integrate psychologists and sociologists’ insights and experiences from a multidisciplinary and human-focused point of view.
We will foster the exchange of insights on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions of research.
SUBMISSION & LIST OF TOPICS
We invite authors to submit two-page abstracts, discussing their prior experience using tools for measuring trust and other constructs.
We also welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the workshop. Topics of position papers will be fuel for a spin-date discussion, following the “world café” method, where groups revolve around fixed topics – each for discussing one factor influencing people’s trust in robots – as recognised by most influenced works in literature.
We further encourage authors of the accepted papers to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. All accepted papers will have an oral presentation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI
- Measuring Trust in HRI
- Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI
- Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots
- Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots
- Trust and Assistive Robotics
- Overtrust in Robots
- Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust
- Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots
- Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion
- Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI
- Mental Models and Trust in HRI
- Trust and Safety in HRI
- Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI
- Trustworthy AI
- XAI in HRI
- Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics
INVITED SPEAKER
The following keynote speaker has already confirmed her participation to this session:
- Dr. Jessie Y.C. Chen, ST – Soldier Performance, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format, which is also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX or MS-Word.
Authors needs to submit their PDF via EasyChair. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: 30 June 2023
Acceptance: 27 July 2023
Camera ready: 10 August 2023
Workshop day: 28 August 2023
COMMITTEES
- Dr Alessandra Rossi, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- Dr Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
- Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
- Dr Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
- Lewis Riches, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
CONTACT
All questions about submissions should be emailed to scrita@herts.ac.uk – a.rossi@herts.ac.uk – p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk