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<p><span lang="en-US">*DEADLINE EXTENSION*</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-US">We are happy to announce that the deadline for
abstract submissions has been extended.</span> The new deadline
to submit contributions to the HBCR workshop is <b><u>15 July</u></b>.</p>
<p><br>
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<p><font size="+2"><b>Call for Contributions</b></font> </p>
<p class="western">Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots</p>
<p class="western">Workshop at IROS 2021 – October 1st, 2021</p>
<p class="western">Website: <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/hbcr-workshop-2021">https://sites.google.com/view/hbcr-workshop-2021</a></p>
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<font size="+1"><b> </b><b><span lang="en-US">Workshop objectives</span></b><b>
</b></font>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Building
robots capable of behaving in a human-like manner is a long-term
goal in robotics. It is becoming even more crucial with the
growing number of applications in which robots are brought
closer to humans, not only trained experts, but also
inexperienced users, children, the elderly, or clinical
populations.</span></p>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Current
research from different disciplines contributes to this general
endeavor in various ways:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">by creating robots that
mimic specific aspects of human behavior,</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">by designing
brain-inspired cognitive architectures for robots,</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">by implementing embodied
neural models driving robots’ behavior,</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">by reproducing human
motion dynamics on robots,</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western"><span lang="en-US">by investigating how
humans perceive and interact with robots, dependent on the
degree of the robots’ human-likeness.</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">This workshop
aims to bring together scholars from the areas of research that
are involved in such endeavor (e.g., robotics, artificial
intelligence, human-robot interaction, computational modeling of
human cognition and behavior, psychology, cognitive
neuroscience). It is conceived as a forum to encourage
discussions about recent advances and future challenges related
to the following questions:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">How to
design robots with human-like behavior and cognition?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">What are
the best methods for examining human-like behavior and
cognition?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">What are
the best approaches for implementing human-like behavior and
cognition in robots?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">How to
manipulate, control and measure robots’ degree of
human-likeness?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Is
autonomy a prerequisite for human-likeness?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">How to
best measure human reception of human-likeness of robots?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">What is
the link between perceived human-likeness and social
attunement in human-robot interaction?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">How can
such human-like robots inform and enable human-centered
research?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">How can
modeling human-like behavior in robots inform us about human
cognition?</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">In what
contexts and applications do we need human-like behavior or
cognition? And in what contexts it is not necessary?</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><br>
</p>
<font size="+1"><b>Workshop format </b></font>
<p class="western">Like the main IROS 2021 conference, the HBCR
workshop will be held fully online. The event will include the
following:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p class="western">Invited and contributed talks: pre-recorded
videos with Q&A Slack</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western">Panel discussion: 2-hour live session on the
IROS 2021 platform</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western">Open discussion: 2-hour informal social
session on Zoom</p>
</li>
</ol>
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</p>
<font size="+1"><b>Organizers</b></font>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Marwen
Belkaid (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Giorgio
Metta (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Tony
Prescott (Univ. of Sheffield, United Kingdom)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Agnieszka
Wykowska (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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</p>
<font size="+1"><b><span lang="en-US">Invited Speakers</span></b><b>
</b></font>
<ul>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Aude
Billard (École Polytech. Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Yiannis
Demiris (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Serena
Ivaldi (Inria, France) </span> </p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Mehdi
Khamassi (Sorbonne Université-CNRS, France)</span></p>
</li>
<li><span lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US">Ana Paiva (Univ. de
Lisboa, Portugal)<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></span></li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Tony
Prescott (Univ. of Sheffield, United Kingdom)</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Agnieszka
Wykowska / Marwen Belkaid (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Italy)</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p><font size="+1"><b><span lang="en-US">Call for contributions</span></b></font></p>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">We invite
participants to submit extended abstracts about their research
related to the topics of the workshop. We welcome submissions
about novel results, work in progress, literature review,
perspectives/opinions. The goal of the workshop is to provide a
forum for interdisciplinary discussion and a unique opportunity
for a fruitful and in-depth exchange of ideas between
early-career and advanced-career researchers.</span></p>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Submitted
abstracts must follow the <a
href="https://www.iros2021.org/call-for-papers">IROS template</a>
(1 page max., approx. 300-600 words, including references).
Submissions should be sent to: <a
href="mailto:marwen.belkaid@iit.it">marwen.belkaid@iit.it</a></span></p>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Among the
accepted submissions, 3 best contributions will be awarded with
the Springer-sponsored award. The award consists of:</span></p>
<ol type="a">
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">1-year
free access to the International Journal of Social Robotics
(IJSR), Springer, </span> </p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">book prize
in the form of a 150 € voucher that the recipient will be
able to use to receive the book(s) of their choice in the
broad selection of books from the publisher.</span></p>
</li>
</ol>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">In addition,
all authors of accepted contributions will be invited to submit
an extended version of their abstracts to the Special issue that
we are organizing in the International Journal of Social
Robotics. Acceptance of extended abstracts to the workshop is a
prerequisite, but does not guarantee acceptance for publication
in the Special issue.</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-US"><br>
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<p><font size="+1"><b><span lang="en-US">Important dates</span></b></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"><span
lang="en-US">Deadline for abstract submission: </span><strike>25
June 2021</strike> 15 July 2021</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Decision
notification for abstracts: 26 July 2021</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Workshop:
1 October 2021</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Deadline
for Special issue submission: 15 November 2021</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="western" align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Decision
notification for Special issue (tentative): 5 January 2022</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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Dr Marwen BELKAID
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Center for Human Technologies
Via Enrico Melen, 83
16152 Genoa, Italy</pre>
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