[Air-L] Workshop Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction @RO-MAN'17

[Somaya Ben Allouch]

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   Call for Papers

   The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction

   A workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on
   Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017)

   in Lisbon, Portugal, August 28-31, 2017.

   www.mutualshapinghri.com

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   **Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017**

   Workshop topic

   The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and
   shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced
   in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled
   them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we
   see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates,
   care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education,
   health and eldercare, the home, and in search and rescue. This
   development has started the discussion on the emotional, ethical and
   societal consequences of the increasing confrontations and interactions
   between humans and robots.

   Studies in human-robot interaction have shown that, when robots enter
   different contexts of our everyday lives, they can influence and change
   that particular context beyond its intended use purpose alone. The term
   mutual shaping explains the detailed process of technological design
   suggesting that society and technology are not mutually exclusive to
   one another and, instead, influence and shape each other. Society
   changes as a direct result of the implementation of technology that has
   been created based on societyâs wants and needs. The mutual shaping of
   technology and society approach focuses on analyzing how social and
   cultural factors influence the way technologies are designed, used, and
   evaluated, as well as how technologies affect our construction of
   social values and meanings.

   The decisions made in the design, adoption, use, and evaluation process
   affect humanâs attitudes towards, uses of, and even their
   conceptualizations of these (socially) interactive systems. Social
   norms, values and morals are both implicitly and explicitly intertwined
   with technologies, reinforcing or altering our beliefs and practices.
   Once a robot has entered a social environment, it will alter the
   distribution of responsibilities and roles within that environment,
   including how people act in that situation or use context. Accordingly,
   studies that show how use practices of robot systems and the social
   environment mutually shape each other, and what forms this mutual
   shaping process takes, is crucial for the future development of robots
   for broad societal use. This knowledge is required to inform the design
   and acceptance of new and existing robot systems.

   Call for papers

   The aim of this workshop is to inform the robotics community and its
   many stakeholders about lessons learned so far about the mutual shaping
   of robots and society. We will focus on how social factors affect
   whether people choose to use robots, and how robot design factors
   affect the social contexts in which robots are used. We welcome
   prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (max. 4 pages
   including references) covering any relevant topic contributing to the
   discussion on the mutual shaping effect(s) of robots and society. The
   goal is to discuss a wide variety of contributions from the many
   disciplines and approaches that intersect with the development and
   evaluation of robot systems (e.g. Human-Human Interaction,
   Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Human Factors
   User-Experience, engineering, computer sciences, (interactive) design,
   sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.). We invite a diversity of
   topics from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields
   who address strategies and lessons learned about mutual shaping of
   robots and society including, but not limited to:

   ·       Human-robot (non)use

   ·       Human-Robot interaction

   ·       Mutual shaping of robots and society

   ·       Evaluation of robot applications and contexts of use

   ·       Socially intelligent robotics

   ·       Multimodal assessment technologies

   ·       Design of robotics systems

   ·       Social analysis of robotics

   ·       Social cognitive systems



   The manuscripts should use the conference format. Please submit a PDF
   copy of your manuscript
   to [1]s.benallouch at saxion.nl and [2]maartje_de_graaf at brown.edu.

   Timeline

   June 1, 2017:  Submission deadline for workshop papers

   June 22, 2017: Notification of acceptance

   July 5, 2017: Camera-ready workshop papers deadline

   July 10, 2017: Workshop program finalized

   August 27 or September 1, 2017: Workshop day

   August 28 â August 31, 2017: Main conference


   Workshop organizers

   Somaya Ben Allouch â Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The
   Netherlands

   Maartje de Graaf â Brown University, USA

   Selma Sabanovic â Indiana University, USA

   Friederike Eyssel â Bielefeld University, Germany

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References

   1. mailto:s.benallouch at saxion.nl
   2. mailto:maartje_de_graaf at brown.edu