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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=========================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop “HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience”, at HRI 2014, Bielefeld, DE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=========================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>March 3, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: January 13, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Website: <a href="http://http:/www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~kl360/HRI2014W/">http://http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~kl360/HRI2014W/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=========================================================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>INVITED SPEAKERS: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-----------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prof. Malinda Carpenter, University of St Andrews on research leave at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prof. Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prof. Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prof. Brian Scassellati, Yale University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A fundamental challenge for robotics is to transfer the human natural social skills to the interaction with a robot. At the same time, neuroscience and psychology are still investigating the mechanisms behind the development of human-human interaction. HRI becomes therefore an ideal contact point for these different disciplines, as the robot can join these two research streams by serving different roles. From a robotics perspective, the study of interaction is used to implement cognitive architectures and develop cognitive models, which can then be tested in real world environments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From a neuroscientific perspective, robots could represent an ideal stimulus to establish an interaction with human partners in a controlled manner and make it possible studying quantitatively the behavioral and neural underpinnings of both cognitive and physical interaction. Ideally, the integration of these two approaches could lead to a positive loop: the implementation of new cognitive architectures may raise new interesting questions for neuroscientists, and the behavioral and neuroscientific results of the human-robot interaction studies could validate or give new inputs for robotics engineers. However, the integration of two different disciplines is always difficult, as often even similar goals are masked by difference in language or methodologies across fields. The aim of this workshop will be to provide a venue for researchers of different disciplines to discuss and present the possible point of contacts, to address the issues and highlight the advantages of bridging the two disciplines in the context of the study of interaction. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LIST OF TOPICS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-----------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Human Robot Interaction<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Cognitive Models<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Development of Social Cognition<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Neural bases of Interaction<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Cognitive and Physical Interaction<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Social Signals<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The workshop will consist of invited keynotes, time for discussions and will also feature a poster session.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prospective participants are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) or short papers (2 pages). Submissions will be accepted in PDF format only, using the HRI formatting guidelines and including author names. Authors should send their papers to <a href="mailto:hri2014workshop@gmail.com">hri2014workshop@gmail.com</a>. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Upon available time, selected contributions may have the opportunity to be presented in the oral session. The other selected contributions will be presented as posters during a dedicated session. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Accepted publications will be published on our workshop web page. Depending on the overall quality of the contributions, we might consider proposing a Special Issue to journal in the near future.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Authors will have the option of opting out from including their reports in the website. Information on the opt-out option will be provided along with the acceptance notice for the papers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In addition to the submission participants have to answer one of the following questions:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Which outcomes should provide neuroscientific research to be useful to robotics? And vice versa? Can descriptive results be enough or a modelling is necessary for a positive communication to exist?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- How can robotics research contribute to/influence neuroscience and/or psychology? Although there are many robotics studies inspired by evidences obtained in neuroscience and/or psychology, the impact of robotics on neuroscience or psychology is less evident, especially the modelling research. What can roboticists do to cause a paradigm shift?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Where the bridge between robotics and neuroscience is more useful, and where is it not (or less)? E.g., very useful for social robotics, less useful for algorithm design (or not?)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- How this bridge should be built? At the level of the single individual (i.e. a person with multidisciplinary background), at the level of a group (i.e., a group of people with different backgrounds), at the level of a department (with different labs meeting once in a while) or a mix of the previous?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Upon available time, those questions/answers will be used to "drive" a final discussion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: January 13, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>March 3, 2014, Workshop at HRI 2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>ORGANIZERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>----------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>- Alessandra Sciutti<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT> Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Katrin Solveig Lohan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Heriot-Watt University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Yukie Nagai<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Osaka University <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>