Connectionists: CFP - Special issue on “Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots”

[marwen Belkaid]

    Call for papers

Special issue on “Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots”///in the 
International Journal of Social Robotics/

_Submission deadline_: January 5, 2022; Research articles and 
Theoretical papers

_More info_: https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/19850712 
<https://www.springer.com/journal/12369/updates/19850712>


      *Description*

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 ‘Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots 
<https://sites.google.com/view/hbcr-workshop-2021/home>’. Submissions 
are welcomed from contributors who attended the workshop as well as from 
those who did not.

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.

Current research from different disciplines contributes to this general 
endeavor in various ways:

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    by creating robots that mimic specific aspects of human behavior,

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    by designing brain-inspired cognitive architectures for robots,

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    by implementing embodied neural models driving robots’ behavior,

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    by reproducing human motion dynamics on robots,

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    by investigating how humans perceive and interact with robots,
    dependent on the degree of the robots’ human-likeness.

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:

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    How to design robots with human-like behavior and cognition?

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    What are the best methods for examining human-like behavior and
    cognition?

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    What are the best approaches for implementing human-like behavior
    and cognition in robots?

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    How to manipulate, control and measure robots‘ degree of
    human-likeness?

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    Is autonomy a prerequisite for human-likeness?

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    How to best measure human reception of human-likeness of robots?

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    What is the link between perceived human-likeness and social
    attunement in human-robot interaction?

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    How can such human-like robots inform and enable human-centered
    research?

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    How can modeling human-like behavior in robots inform us about human
    cognition?

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    In what contexts and applications do we need human-like behavior or
    cognition?

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    And in what contexts it is not necessary?


      *Guest editors*

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    Marwen Belkaid, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

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    Giorgio Metta, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

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    Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

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    Agnieszka Wykowska, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)


-- 
Dr Marwen BELKAID
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Center for Human Technologies
Via Enrico Melen, 83
16152 Genoa, Italy

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