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Workshop on Embodied Communication of Goals and Intentions, at ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK
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October 27th, 2013
Submission deadline: August 31, 2013
website: http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/specialsession.php#Workshop2
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INVITED SPEAKERS: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire
Marc Hanheide, Lincoln University
Frank Broz, University of Plymouth


This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different fields working on robots that communicate with humans. The focus is on human-robot interaction and on embodied communication of goals and intentions. It is assumed that there is a strong influence of action performance, gazing behaviour, spatial arrangement and spatial flow of action to infer goals and intentions from humans. Learning and understanding in a social context should not be considered as an one-sided process. Thus, it is interesting to study situations from the perspective of both the learner's and the teacher's perspective.
In this workshop, the intention is to investigate the challenges posed by such complex interaction systems from different research perspectives. Therefore, we will host talks given by researchers with different backgrounds. The aim is to report on the state-of-the-art and promote the exchange of ideas on how to enable a robot to interact with a human in a more natural way so that it can directly learn from human instruction.

LIST OF TOPICS
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- Goal extraction
- Embodied communication
- Mutual Gaze
- Face-to-Face Communication
- Turn-taking in HRI
- Human-aware navigation
- Spatial Prompting
- Human-robot spatial interaction

FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
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The workshop program will consist of invited keynotes, oral presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a video session, along with time for discussions. Potential participants are invited to submit full papers with 6 pages, short position papers with 2-4 pages or video submissions with a 2-page description). Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only, using the ICSR formatting guidelines (http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php) and including author names. Authors should send their papers to icsr2013w2@gmail.com. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper in an upcoming journal special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES
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7 September 2013, Full/short paper submission
24 September 2013, Notification of acceptance
27 October 2013, Workshop at ICSR 2013

Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only, using the ICSR formatting guidelines (http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php) and including author names. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors should send their papers to icsr2013w2@gmail.com.

ORGANIZERS
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- Katrin Solveig Lohan
iCub Facility
Istituto Italiano di Technologia

- Konstantinos Theofilis
Adaptive Systems Research Group
University of Hertfordshire