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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You are invited to submit your research on Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) to this year’s HRI Workshop on Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions.</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Two deadlines: January 24, 2021 & February 21, 2021</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Website:<span> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/non-verbal-hri-2021/home" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">https://sites.google.com/view/non-verbal-hri-2021/home</span></a></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction (nHRI) encompasses factors such as: gaze, gesture, touch, body language, the expression of affect, paralinguistics, and facial expression. nHRI has
advanced beyond theoretical and computational contributions. Progress has been made through a variety of user studies and laboratory experiments as well as practical efforts such as integration of nonverbal inputs with other HRI modalities including domain
specific implementations. This workshop seeks to promote collaboration between two threads of research: experimental nHRI, and application domains that can benefit from its use. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">The workshop will link researchers working on new approaches to nHRI in the laboratory to applied roboticists who present challenges in specific domains, such as: service robots, field
robotics, socially-assistive robotics, and human-robot collaborative work that could benefit from richer nHRI. This workshop will draw participation from diverse areas to evaluate best practices and integration efforts across different research domains. We
will target a broad, cross-disciplinary audience, and provide a venue for recent efforts related to multimodal interaction, system integration, data collection, and user studies.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">The workshop will comprise three focus areas: </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">1) Theory, User Studies, and Laboratory Experimentation; </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">2) Applications and Application Domains; and </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">3) Domain-Specific Challenges.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Papers will include short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages) and long-format </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:12pt">integration and experimental
papers (4-6 pages). </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">This workshop will facilitate cross-pollination from disparate efforts and improve our </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:12pt">collective ability to evaluate
future nHRI contributions.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Please see our website for more details.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Important Dates:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">January 24: Submission deadline for notification before early registration</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">January 28: Notification for first deadline</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">January 31: Deadline for early registration</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">February 21: Submission deadline for any remaining papers</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">March 1: Notification for second deadline</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">March 8: ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Workshop date: TBD - The day before or the day after HRI</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Advantages of systems that leverage nHRI in teamwork, companionship, and other applications</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Theories and perspectives of non-verbal communication</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Exchange of gesture</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Studies of the interpretation of gesture and facial expression</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Microexpressions and affect</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Theory of mind approaches to non-verbal communication</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Variations across cultures of nonverbal expression</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">- Physical, mental, age, and gender specific expressions</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">On behalf of the organizing committee,</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Nick DePalma - Visiting Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Pittsburgh</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Justin Hart - Assistant Professor of Practice, The University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Bradley Hayes - Assistant Professor, The University of Colorado Boulder</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Karl Kruusamäe - Associate Professor, The University of Tartu</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Reuth Mirsky - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Mitch Pryor - Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Xuesu Xiao - Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin</span></p>
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