DEADLINE EXTENDED - CfP BEAR Workshop @RO-MAN 2025

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Francesca Fracasso

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Paper Submission Deadline: MAY 30th 2024 (23:59 AOE)
Workshop Date: TBD 
Workshop Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands (IEEE RO-MAN 2025)
RO-MAN Date: 25-29 August 2025
Format: IN PERSON
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We are delighted to invite you to submit your papers to the 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive Robots (https://bear-workshop.github.io/website/), which will be held at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on August 2024.
As technology advances and societal needs grow, a hybrid future where humans and social robots collaborate is emerging—especially in healthcare and assistive settings. Social robots support vulnerable populations by providing personalized and adaptive care. Effective human-robot interaction (HRI), however, depends on a deep understanding of human behavior and cultural context. Personalisation, powered by AI and cognitive technologies, enables socially intelligent robots but also poses risks, such as reduced user autonomy, overdependence, and ethical concerns around data use. Achieving an inclusive and ethical HRI future requires balancing the benefits of personalisation with the need to protect autonomy, diversity, and privacy.
This workshop is the result of blending together three workshops that tackled personalisation from various perspectives: Weighing the benefits of Autonomous Robot persoNalisation (WARN), sociAL roboTs for peRsonalized, continUous and adaptIve aSsisTance (ALTRUIST) AND BAILAR (Behavior Adaptation and Learning for Assistive Robotics).
List of Topics
The workshop includes the topics: 
  • Personalisation in short and long-term HRI; 
  • User modelling in HRI; 
  • Robot's personality; 
  • Context and situation awareness for robots; 
  • Engagement evaluation and re-engagement strategies; 
  • Personalised dialogue with robots; 
  • Personalised non-verbal behaviour with robots; 
  • Adaptive human-aware task planning; 
  • Theory of Mind for adaptive interaction; 
  • Machine Learning for robotic personalisation; 
  • Lifelong (continual) learning for adaptation; 
  • Adaptation in multimodal interaction; 
  • Affective and emotion-adapted HRI; 
  • Persuasion in HRI; 
  • Culture-aware robots; 
  • Evaluation metrics for adaptive robotic behaviour; 
  • Ethical implications of personalisation; 
  • Robot customisation and teaching.

Submission Guidelines
We welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts, short, long papers that will be included in the CEUR-WS proceedings of the workshop. Papers must be submitted as PDF and formatted as follows:
  • Extended abstracts: up to 4 pages formatted as LNCS one-column paper (no bibliographic references are expected)
  • Short papers: minimum 5 max 9 pages (references included) formatted as LNCS one-column paper
  • Long papers: minimum 10 pages formatted as LNCS one-column paper
Submitted papers should comply with CEURART style. We have prepared Latex and MS Word templates files for the BEAR Workshop that can be downloaded from this link. Please refer to the official instructions on the CEUR-WS webpage for further details.

Contributions can be submitted through the EasyChair platform.

Accepted contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a Special Issue in an international journal.


Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: MAY 30th 2025 (23:59 AOE)
  • Notification of Acceptance: July 15th, 2025
  • Camera-ready submission deadline: August 1st, 2025


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