<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Apologies for cross posting!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*****Call for contributions*****</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018) workshop on "</b><b class="" style="text-align: center;">At the Crossroads: Blurring the Lines between Animated </b><b class="" style="text-align: center;">and Real Life Personal Robots"</b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/humanoinds2017workshop/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/icra2018workshop/home</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">May 21 or 25, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Brisbane, Australia</p><div class=""><div class="">------------------------------------</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Important dates:<o:p class=""></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Notification of Acceptance: April 15th, 2018</p><div class="">------------------------------------</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Objectives:</b></div><p class="" style="text-align: justify;">The vision of the personal robot has generally been shaped by human perceptions of robots through media and animation. The movie industry has produced animated robot movies for generation across genres with great successes while the advancement in AI is narrowing the gap between fiction and reality.</p><p class="" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;">To animate, and the related words, animation, animated and animator all derive from the Latin verb, animare, which means ‘to give life to'. In the context of robotics, this involves the design and programming of attributes in order to create the illusion of life. Anthropomorphism, the suspension of disbelief, aesthetics, observation, storytelling, performance, articulation of personality through movement and gesture, and the physiological and psychological nature of character are all aspects of animation that animators deal with on a daily basis. In the meantime, researchers have been working relentlessly in the pursuit of bringing human-like capabilities to machines through AI.</p><p class="" style="text-align: justify;">In this workshop we would like to <i class="">explore</i> the principals and practice of animators drawing in from their experience that delivered us robot characters we come to love and adore. Their skills together with the techniques of robotics can contribute immensely in giving ‘the illusion of life’ to personal robots and assist in enhancing human-robot interaction experience.</p><div class="">------------------------------------</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font class="" style="text-align: left;"><font class="" style="text-align: justify;">We invite interested researchers to submit your work or ideas</font><span class="" style="text-align: justify;"> </span></font>addressing topics related to the workshop <font class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="text-align: justify;">to EasyChair: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apr2018" rel="nofollow" class="" style="outline: none;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apr2018</a>. </font><font class="">Papers should be submitted electronically </font>with two-column format in the IEEE style. <font class="" style="text-align: left;">The length of submitted <span class="" style="text-align: justify;">Paper should be up to 6 pages.</span><font class="" style="text-align: justify;"> </font></font><span class="" style="text-align: left;">The reviewing process is single blind.</span><span class="" style="text-align: left;"> The accepted papers will have the </span><span class="" style="text-align: left;">opportunity to present your work/ideas in a poster session or</span><span class="" style="text-align: left;"> oral presentation. We are currently considering the publication of the accepted papers to a special issue or a book chapter.</span></p><div class="">-----------------------------------</div><h3 class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 15.724800109863281px; font-size: 12px;"><span class="">Topics of interest:</span><font class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></h3><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"> </span>•<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Animation in robotics design
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Aesthetics, Movement and the Uncanny Valley
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Anthropomorphism, hyper realism and robotics: to be or not to be
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The principles of animation and Human-robotic interaction
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The performative robot
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Facial animation and communication
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Attributes and emotion
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Designing for Empathy
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Emotional Affordance and the animator's toolkit
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Socially Intelligent Robots
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Collaborative Robotics
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Human Robot Interaction
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Human Behaviour Modeling
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Affective Computing
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Mutual shaping of robots and human
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Performance metrics and benchmarking
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •</span><span class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Designing and animating life
</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Body language and communication
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Suspension of Disbelief
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Evaluation of the affects of mimicry and originality in robot design
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Paralanguage and the communicative robot
</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Navigating the languages of science and design in robotics</p><div class="">--------------------------------------</div><h3 class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 15.724800109863281px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Invited Speakers: </span><font face="Cambria" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></h3><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"> <b class=""> </b><span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> •<span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b class=""> </b></span></span><span class="" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><span class="" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">Deane Taylor</span>, <o:p class=""></o:p></span><span class="" style="text-align: justify;">Animation Concept Artist, Production Designer, Illustrator and Director, USA</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"> <span class="" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><span class="" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;">Rachid Alami </span>, </span><span class="" style="text-align: justify;">LAAS CNRS, France</span></p><div class="">---------------------------------------</div><div class=""><h1 class="" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span class="" style="line-height: 27.600000381469727px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Organizing Committee:</span><font face="Cambria" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></h1><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><font class=""><b class="">Randy Gomez</b>
, Honda Research Institute Japan
</font></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class=""><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/deborah.szapiro" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Deborah Szapiro</a></b>, University of Technology Sydney
</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/icra2018workshop/goog_16450606" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Luis Merino</a></b><a href="http://robotics.upo.es/~lmercab/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;"> </a>, University of Pablo Olavide
</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class=""><a href="https://guangliangsite.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Guangliang Li</a></b>
, Ocean University of China
</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class="">Keisuke Nakamura</b>
, Honda Research Institute Japan
</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class=""><a href="http://www.muehlig.eu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Manuel Muehlig</a></b>
, Honda Research Institute Europe
</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b class=""><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/bert.bongers" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Bert Bongers
</a></b>, University of Technology Sydney
</p><p class=""><font class=""><b class=""><a href="http://www.aoni.waseda.jp/okuno/souran_e.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(71, 18, 100); outline: none;">Hiroshi Okuno
</a></b>, Waseda University
and Kyoto University</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please check the updates on the workshop website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/humanoinds2017workshop/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/icra2018workshop/home</a>. If you have any questions, please contact Guangliang Li at <a href="mailto:guangliangli@ouc.edu.cn" class="">guangliangli@ouc.edu.cn</a> or Randy Gomez <a href="mailto:r.gomez@jp.honda-ri.com" class="">r.gomez@jp.honda-ri.com</a></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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