OBJECTIVE

The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) is to be held at the Hotel amada (Tentatively) in Incheon in Korea, 16~ 18 August 2009, under the FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, together with another five conferences. Social Robotics is the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate among themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to their roles. The very nature of social robotics demands expertise from diverse disciplines. The conference aims to bring together the international community of researchers and practitioners to share their forefront research and the latest advancements in social robotics, as well as interactions with human beings and integration into our society.

The conference welcome original, peer reviewed papers and contributions describing technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances in social robots, and their interactions and communications with humans, especially innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications on the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that from the backbone of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence pertaining to social robotics, and its interaction and communication with human being and its social impact on our society.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We look forward to receive your paper submission in the areas including, but not limited to the following:

• Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots
• Context awareness, expectation and intention understanding
• Design philosophies and socially appealing design methodologies
• Biomechatronics, neuro-robotics, and biomedical robotics
• Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interactions
• Intelligent control and artificial intelligence for social robotics
• Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making
• Learning, adaptation and evolution of intelligence
• Interaction and collaboration between robots, humans and environments
• Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making
• Learning, adaptation and evolution of intelligence
• Multimodal sensor fusion and communication
• Robot-ethics in human society; Interactive robotic arts
• Social acceptance and impact in the society
• Compliance, safety and compatibility in the design of social robots ''living''
• Software architecture and development tools
• Human-robot interaction and robot-robot interaction
• Models of human and animal social behaviour as applied to robots
• Applications in education, entertainment, gaming
• Applications in health care and aged care

*Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag.
Selected papers will be invited for publication as a Special Issue in the International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer-Verlag)