3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships

3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships

Leiden University, The Netherlands

23, 24 June 2010

http://hrpr.liacs.nl

Scope and topics

The 3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (HRPR 2010) is organized and hosted by Leiden University's Institute of Advanced Computer Science. As its two prior editions, it 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

Submissions

Submissions can have any of the following forms:

• original papers & position papers (4-8 pages, published in proceedings)
• extended abstracts (2 pages, published in proceedings)
• workshop proposals
• demonstrations of running system prototypes
• artistic installations (possibly combined with an extended abstract).
  

The language of the conference is English.

Important Dates

• March 2, 2010 Submission deadline for workshop proposals and artistic installations
• March 16, 2010 Submission deadline for papers, extended abstracts, and demonstrations
• 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)
• June 23-24, 2010 Conference dates

Conference Proceedings

All submissions will be peer-reviewed (double blind). Accepted papers are included in the conference proceedings. Publication within a series of an international publisher is being investigated.

Conference Venue

The city of Leiden (The Netherlands) is well known for its historic downtown with pretty canals, museums, famous university, and lively academic atmosphere. It was home to great painters such as Rembrandt and J an Steen. Leiden is located in the heart of the Dutch tulip-growing region only 20 minutes from Amsterdam international airport, 40 minutes from downtown Amsterdam, and 20 minutes from historic Delft. The conference venue is Leiden University's
historic Kamerlingh Onnes building, located on a canal in the city s historic quarter. Photographs from left to right: houses in downtown Leiden; nearby tulip fields; Kamerlingh Onnes building; historic lecture hall in which the conference is situated.

Program Committee

• Dr. Maarten Lamers (chair), Leiden University Institute of Advanced Computer Science
• Dr. Fons Verbeek (vice chair), Director Imaging & Bioinformatics group, Leiden University
• Prof. Ronald Arkin, Director Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dr. ir. 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

Submission, Registration, Program, Speakers, Contact Information
For further information and contact possibilities, visit the conference
website http://hrpr.liacs.nl.