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<h2 class="western">Call for papers</h2>
<p>Special issue on “Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots”<em><span
style="font-style: normal">
</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal">in the
International
Journal of Social Robotics</span></em></p>
<p><u>Submission deadline</u>: January 5, 2022; Research articles
and
Theoretical papers</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><u>More info</u>:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/19850712">https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/19850712</a></p>
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<h3 class="western"><strong>Description</strong></h3>
<p align="left">This Special Issue is in continuation of the HBCR
workshop organized at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference
on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021) on ‘<a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/hbcr-workshop-2021/home"
target="_blank">Human-like
Behavior and Cognition in Robots</a>’. Submissions are welcomed
from contributors who attended the workshop as well as from those
who
did not.</p>
<p align="left">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.</p>
<p align="left">Current research from different disciplines
contributes to this general endeavor in various ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">by creating robots
that mimic specific aspects of human behavior, </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">by designing
brain-inspired cognitive architectures for robots, </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">by implementing
embodied neural models driving robots’ behavior, </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">by reproducing human
motion dynamics on robots, </p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left">by investigating how humans perceive and
interact with robots, dependent on the degree of the robots’
human-likeness.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p align="left">This special issue thus welcomes research articles
as
well as theoretical articles from different areas of research
(e.g.,
robotics, artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction,
computational modeling of human cognition and behavior,
psychology,
cognitive neuroscience) addressing questions such as the
following:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">How to design robots
with human-like behavior and cognition? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">What are the best
methods for examining human-like behavior and cognition? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">What are the best
approaches for implementing human-like behavior and cognition
in robots? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">How to manipulate,
control and measure robots‘ degree of human-likeness? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">Is autonomy a
prerequisite for human-likeness? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">How to best measure
human reception of human-likeness of robots? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">What is the link
between perceived human-likeness and social attunement in
human-robot interaction? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">How can such
human-like robots inform and enable human-centered research? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">How can modeling
human-like behavior in robots inform us about human cognition?
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="left">In what contexts and
applications do we need human-like behavior or cognition? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left">And in what contexts it is not necessary?</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="western"><strong>Guest editors</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Marwen Belkaid,
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Giorgio Metta,
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Tony Prescott,
University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Agnieszka
Wykowska, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)</p>
</li>
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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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