Call for Papers:

Sixth International Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)
In conjunction with ACM UMAP 2025
June 16-19, 2025
New York, NY, USA
cEASAR Workshop: https://caesar2025.di.unito.it/
UMAP 2025: https://www.um.org/umap2024/

Deadline for submission of papers: April 18, 2025 (Flexible)

This Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations.

TOPICS

Topics (of interest) include (but are not limited to):

• Personalized Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
• User modeling and user profiling in social HRI
• Adaptation strategies for HRI
• Affective interaction with robots
• Generative strategies for social robots
• Natural Language Interaction with social robots
• Emotion detection in HRI
• Social Assistive Robots
• Contextually-aware Robots
• Social Robots in Education
• HRI and Cognitive Impairments
• Social Robots as Conversational Recommender Systems
• Social Robots in the real world
• User-centered Design in social HRI
• Behavior Transparency for Social Robot
• Cognitive skills in Social Robots
• Empirical Evaluation of Social Robots
• Persuasion and Social Robots
• Human centered Interaction with Robots

SUBMISSIONS

Submit papers in EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025, selecting the track associated with this workshop: “Workshop CAESAR”

Page limits: Workshop papers till 6 pages (excluding references) will be considered as short papers, while workshop papers between 7 and 14 pages (excluding references) will be considered full papers.

Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e., author names should be included in the submissions.

ACM will publish a conference adjunct proceedings where all the workshop papers will be published.

Workshop papers must follow the formatting guidelines and templates of the main conference (https://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-full-short-papers/).

Papers exceeding page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review.

An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: April 18, 2025 (Flexible)
Notification: April 28, 2025
Accepted Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system): May 5, 2025

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alberto Lillo, University of Torino,  alberto.lillo@unito.it
Luca Raggioli, University of Naples Federico II, luca.raggioli@unina.it
Francesca Cocchella, Italian Institute of Technology – University of Genoa, francesca.cocchella@iit.it
Giuseppe Palestra, University of Bari, giuseppe.palestra@uniba.it
Giulia Scorza Azzarà, Italian Institute of Technology – University of Genoa, giulia.scorza@iit.it
Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cgena@di.unito.it