[CFP] 8th Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR)

[Silvia Rossi]

Call for Submissions to the 8th Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR) at RO-MAN 2024

• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bailar2024/home
• Workshop: August 26 2024 (TBC)
• Location: Pasadine, California (USA) as part of the the 33rd International Conference on Robots & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024)

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Online adaptive behavior
• Acceptability and personalization in HRI
• User and behavior modeling for adaptation
• Emotion and intention recognition
• Multimodal interfaces for emotion recognition
• Affective and emotional robots
• Empathy in robotics
• Mutual affective communication
• Affective computing in SAR
• Internal state monitoring
• Detection of verbal and non-verbal behavioral cues
• Lifelong (or continual) learning and adaptation methods in HRI
• Short-term personalization in HRI
• Incremental and online learning in HRI
• Robot behavior explainability and legibility
• Theory of Mind in Robotics
• Understandable Communication
• Ethical Aspects of Affective HRI communication and personalization in SAR
• Evaluation metrics for adaptive robot behavior   

IMPORTANT DATES
• Deadline for Paper Submission:  June 7th, 2024
• Paper Acceptance Notification:  June 21st, 2024
• Camera Ready Paper:  July 5th, 2024
• Main Conference Date:  August 26th–310th, 2024
• Workshop Date:  August the 26th, 2024 (TBC)

Invited Speakers
• Prof. Iolanda Leite
• Prof. Laurel Riek
• Prof. Minsu Jang

Submission Guidelines
We welcome prospective participants to submit either extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) or full papers (up to 6 pages). Papers can be on research that the authors would like to discuss during the workshop, especially encouraging papers on new ideas or research that the authors plan to conduct.
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended/revised version of the papers for a special issue in a recognized international journal.
We strongly encourage workshop participants to present during paper presentation demos and videos showing their experiments and achievements. All material collected during the Workshop, such as video, slides, papers, etc., will be made available on the workshop website upon approval of the authors.
The manuscripts should conform to the RO-MAN 2024 guidelines: https://www.ro-man2024.org
• Word template: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php 
• LaTeX template: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php 
Submissions do not need to be anonymized for review.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by two reviewers. Accepted papers require that at least one of the authors register to the workshop. The abstracts of the accepted papers will appear on the workshop website.
• Authors will be able to submit a PDF copy through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bailar2024

Committees
Organizing committee
• Mariacarla Staffa (Coordinator) - University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
• Alessandra Sciutti - IIT (Italy)
• Silvia Rossi - University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy)

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Silvia Rossi, PhD

University of Naples "Federico II" - ITALY

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