THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR PAPERS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS WAS EXTENDED TO TUESDAY MARCH 23.
Call For Papers
3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships
23-24 June 2010
Organized and hosted by Leiden University, The Netherlands
The 3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (HRPR 2010) is the main platform to present and discuss studies of personal relationships with artificial partners, their formation, their possibilities and their consequences. Such personal relationships are increasingly attracting attention from scientific fields as (social) robotics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, sociology.
Researchers, students and practitioners from all segments of the human-robot personal interaction community are invited to submit works and proposals related (but not limited) to the topics
- robot emotions
- robot personalities
- gender approaches
- affective approaches
- psychological approaches
- sociological approaches
- roboethics
- philosophical approaches
- human-robot societies
- case studies
in any of the following forms
- original papers, describing original research or design work (4-8 pages, published in proceedings)
- position papers, posing substantiated opinions or positions on the conference topic (4-8 pages, published in proceedings)
- extended abstracts, describing original work (2 pages, published in proceedings)
- workshop proposals
- demonstrations of running system prototypes
- artistic installations (possibly combined with an extended abstract).
Submitted papers and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind procedure, based on technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The language of the conference is English.
Conference Proceedings:
Accepted papers and extended abstracts are published in the Springer LNICST series (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) and included in the SpringerLink online publication database. The organizers aim to publish all materials on the first conference date.
Important Dates:
| March 2, 2010 | Submission deadline for workshop proposals and artistic installations | ||||||||
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| EXTENDED: March 23, 2010 |
Submission deadline for papers, extended abstracts, and demonstrations of running system prototypes
| April 27, 2010 |
Notification of acceptances |
May 18, 2010 |
Submission deadline for final versions and registration of presenting authors |
June 22, 2010 |
Pre-conference workshops (tentative) and |
mid-summer evening guided tour of historic Leiden June 23-24, 2010 |
Conference dates
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Conference Venue
City of Leiden (near Amsterdam)
The city of Leiden is well known for its historic downtown with pretty canals, museums, famous university, and lively academic atmosphere. It played an important role in Dutch history and was home to great painters such as Rembrandt and Jan Steen. Leiden University is among the oldest universities of Europe, founded in 1575. Its historic buildings and large student population give Leiden a true academic atmosphere.
Leiden is located in the heart of the Dutch tulip-growing region. Through public transportation it can be reached in only 20 minutes from Amsterdam international airport, in 40 minutes from downtown Amsterdam, and in 20 minutes from historic Delft.
Kamerlingh Onnes Building
The conference venue is Leiden University's fully restored Kamerlingh Onnes building, located on a canal in the historic quarter of Leiden. The building once housed the famous experiments of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, the first physicist to liquefy helium at a temperature of 0.9 Kelvin, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics. The conference takes place in its historic Lorentz Room.
Preliminary Programme
The below program is preliminary. More detailed information will be available later.
| Wednesday, June 22, 2010 | |
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| 10:00 - 16:00 | Pre-conference workshops (depending on interest) |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Informal pre-conference dinner |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Mid-summer evening tour of historic Leiden |
| Thursday June 23, 2010 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration and opening |
| 9:00 - 17:00 | Conference |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday June 24, 2010 | |
| 9:00 - 16:00 | Conference |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Conference closing |
Keynote Speaker
Kerstin Dautenhahn (confirmed)
Kerstin Dautenhahn pioneered research in robot social learning and imitation, and the study of robots in autism therapy. She has published more than 200 research articles and made countless media appearances promoting her scientific field. As such, she was of great influence to the field of human-robot personal relationships.
She is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire, where she is coordinator of the Adaptive Systems Research Group. Her main areas of research are Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents and Artificial Life.
Kerstin has authored and edited several books and frequently organizes international research workshops and conferences. She is Editor in Chief of the journal Interaction Studies, and Associate Editor of the journals Adaptive Behavior, the International Journal of Social Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
Other invited speakers are to be confirmed.
Submission Procedures
Workshops, artistic installations, and demonstrations
Proposals for workshops, demonstrations and artistic installations should be described in English within 2 pages and sent to the Program Chair at hrpr2010@easychair.org as a single PDF document. Additional information about proposals may be requested of the author(s) by the Program Committee.
Papers and extended abstracts
Submitted papers and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind procedure, based on technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All submissions are handled electronically, and must
- present original, previously unpublished research, design work or positions, not currently under review by another conference or journal
- be written in English
- be limited to the described forms and sizes (including figures and references)
- be formatted according to Springer LNICST style and guidelines
- have all author identification removed from the manuscript to facilitate double-blind review
- contain the appropriate academic field(s) on the front page
- be submitted as a single PDF document
When submitting a paper, remove all author identification (names, affiliations, acknowledgments) from it, to facilitate double-blind peer-review. Upon acceptance, the final and published manuscript should include full author identification.
By submitting a paper (including extended abstracts), the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the published proceedings and will present the paper at the conference. A paper will not be published without advance registration of at least one of its authors — one registration covers two papers for those authors who have multiple papers accepted.
Initial submission of papers (including extended abstracts) is done via the HRPR 2010 EasyChair conference system. Authors need an EasyChair account in order to submit a paper. If you do not already have an EasyChair account, you can create one via the above link. Once logged in, you can submit a new paper, or change a prior submission. Upon acceptance, camera-ready versions are entered into ICST's ASSYST system.
Registration
Full registration includes:- participation in conference pre-program
- participation in conference workshops
- participation in conference activities
- midsummer night guided tour of historic Leiden
- wireless internet connection at conference venue
- lunches, coffee, tea, refreshments
- informal pre-conference dinner
- conference dinner
- group photograph
- proceedings (only included for presenting authors, excluding student registrations)
| Before May 19, 2010 (early) |
After May 18, 2010 (late) |
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| Non-students | 225 € | 275 € |
| Non-students without dinners | 150 € | 200 € |
| PhD students | 175 € | 200 € |
| PhD students without dinners | 100 € | 125 € |
| Students without dinners and photograph |
50 € | 60 € |
All prices are in EURO's (€), excluding creditcard handling fees (approximately 4.5%).
Detailed registration procedures will be available soon.
Organization
Organizing Institute
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University
HRPR Conference Series Initiators
- Prof. Jaap van den Herik
- Dr. David Levy
Program Committee
| Dr. Maarten Lamers (chair) | Leiden University Institute of Advanced Computer Science |
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| Dr. Fons Verbeek (vice chair) | Director Imaging & Bioinformatics group, Leiden University |
| Prof. Ronald Arkin | Director Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Dr. Joost Broekens | Man-Machine Interaction group, Delft University of Technology |
| Prof. Jaap van den Herik | Director Tilburg centre for Creative Computing, Tilburg University |
| Prof. Bernhard Hommel | Director of Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University |
| Dr. Stefan Kopp | Director of Sociable Agents Group, Bielefeld University |
| Dr. David Levy | Author of "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships"; winner of the 2009 Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence |
| Prof. Cees Midden | Human Technology Interaction group, Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Prof. Bernhard Sendhoff | Chief Technology Officer at Honda Research Institute Europe |
| Dr. Britta Wrede | Head of the Hybrid Society research group, Bielefeld University |
Technical Support Team
- Joost Elfering, Leiden University Media Technology program
- Marijke van der Gorp, Leiden University Media Technology program
- Joris Slob M.Sc., Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Contact
Until further notice, contact:
Dr. Maarten Lamers, hrpr2010@easychair.org
Program Chair
Leiden University Insititute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
Niels Bohrweg 1
2333CA Leiden
The Netherlands
Sign-up for the HRPR 2010 mailing list at:
http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu/misc/hrpr2010.