4th Summer School on Human-Robot Interaction, Call for Application

[Angelo Cangelosi]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Human Interactivity and Language Lab, University of Warsaw and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society we have the pleasure to invite you to

4th Summer School on Human-Robot Interaction

September 18-23, 2023, Chęciny, Poland

Application deadline: 5th May, 2023

https://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/hri-summer-school/

We welcome PhD students, MA students and young researchers with backgrounds in robotics and/or language and communication, seeking to deepen their knowledge and hands-on experience in social human-robot interaction.

Speakers and Tutors

• Chris Balkenius (Lund University)
• Tony Belpaeme (Ghent University)
• Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark)
• Tom Froese (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
• Judith Holler (Radboud University and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
• Roger Moore (Sheffield University)
• Iris Nomikou (Portsmouth University)
• Alessandra Sciutti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
• David Schlangen (University of Potsdam)
• Gabriel Skantze (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Furhat Robotics)
• Michael Spranger (SONY Japan)
• Serge Thill (Radboud University)

We invite you to 5 days of intense learning: Keynote lectures in the morning, followed by hands-on workshops, discussion panels and social activities in the evenings. The School aims at reframing some of the key questions in HRI, which are pertinent both to social and to general robotics. See more on the website: https://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/hri-summer-school/

On Behalf of Scientific Board and Organizers,

Prof. Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, University of Warsaw

Dr. Serge Thill, Radboud University

Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester

The Summer School is organized under the auspices of two IEEE RAS Technical Committees (Cognitive Robotics TC and Human-Robot Interaction TC) and is co-financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 TRAINCREASE project (No 952324), EU H2020 PERSEO (No 955778), and IEEE RAS Summer Schools programme.

Local organizers: Human Interactivity and Language Lab, University of Warsaw. Feel free to spread the word about our school!