[CFP] ICRA 2023 Workshop on Communicating Robot Learning across Human-Robot Interaction

[Sandy Huang]

Dear all,

We invite you to attend and submit your work to our workshop, “Communicating Robot Learning across Human-Robot Interaction,” to be held at ICRA 2023 on May 29 in London, United Kingdom.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icra23-communicating-learning

Abstract: Today’s robots are increasingly able to learn. From robot arms that learn from experience to autonomous cars that learn from demonstration, these systems fundamentally change their behaviors over time. While this learning improves the robot’s performance, it also presents a black box to nearby humans: what has the robot learned correctly, what is the robot still confused about, and how will the robot behave in the future? For seamless human-robot interaction we must communicate the robot’s learning to human partners.

This workshop explores communication by bringing together diverse experts from three perspectives. From a robot learning perspective, we must understand how to create algorithms that are inherently explainable and intuitive to human collaborators. From a communication interfaces perspective, we must develop haptics, augmented reality, nonverbal, and soft robotics mechanisms that convey information from the robot to the human. Finally, from a human modeling perspective, we must understand how humans perceive and interpret this feedback to construct mental models of learning robots. The main objectives of this workshop are i) to understand how each of these communities is separately trying to communicate robot learning, and then ii) to discuss how these separate advances should be combined in the future.

Submissions: We invite submissions on late-breaking research at the intersection of human-robot interaction, communication, and robot learning. Examples of relevant topics include:

• Collaborative HRI that relies on clear communication from the robot to the human
• Algorithms for generating concise, clear communication
• Novel communication interfaces, or user studies on the choice of communication interface
• Modeling how communicating robot learning affects the human's mental model of the robot

Submissions should be in the form of 1 page extended abstracts. Contributions can be novel on-going work, recently published work, or collaborative and/or large scale projects.

Submission Form: https://forms.gle/Y8GHPMWkATaV4wWY7

Travel Grants: We will be awarding ten travel grants of $500 USD. Travel grants will be awarded to selected students with accepted submissions. To be considered, please fill out the relevant section of the submission form.

Important Dates: Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis up to May 15th.

Invited Speakers:

• Henny Admoni, Carnegie Mellon University
• Aude Billard, EPFL
• Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester
• Heather Culbertson, University of Southern California
• Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London
• Marcia O'Malley, Rice University
• Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University
• Harold Soh, National University of Singapore
• Gentiane Venture, University of Tokyo

Organizers:

• Dylan Losey, Virginia Tech
• Laura Blumenschein, Purdue University
• Sandy Huang, DeepMind
• Dana Kulic, Monash University
• Domenico Prattichizzo, University of Siena