Collections and calls for papers

Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: perception, cognitive architecture and field tests

The cooperation between humans and robots is becoming increasingly important in our society. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the development of models that can enhance the interaction between hu...

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Closed

Embodied Agents for Wellbeing

The current COVID-19 pandemic has led to societal changes (such as social isolation and work-from-home arrangements) that have severely impacted the mental wellbeing of the worldwide population, causing depr...

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Closed

Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-Ethics

The development and diffusion of social robots gives increasingly rise to ethical and legal concerns related to, e.g., responsibility assignments in cooperative tasks, implementation of moral rules in robots...

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Closed

Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots

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 huma...

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Open

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Ongoing

Human-mediated Robot Autonomy

The purposeful combination of the skills and computational capabilities of robotics platforms with human expertise and know-how is crucial to realize effective robotic services in real-world ecological envir...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Prediction and Anticipation for Reasoning in Human-Robot Interaction

Recently, there has been a growing interest in making autonomous robots able to interact and communicate with people. This demanding objective has opened new research fields concerning the social abilities r...

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Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Robot Avatars for Telepresence and Social Interaction

This special issue is timely with the growing interest for the robotics community for robots that are teleoperated to act as human avatars to enable telepresence and social interaction. Avatars are robotics ...

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Closed

Social and Cognitive Interactions in the Open World

Social robots are often designed to serve and support human’s needs in the human environment. Therefore, the fundamental capability of social robots is to be able to perceive the dynamic interaction environm...

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Closed

Social robots for personalized, continuous and adaptive assistance

Increased life expectancy is an achievement of modern societies in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Countries (and recently in developing Countries) thanks to the technological pr...

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Closed

Special Issue on Beyond Anthropomorphism rethinking human robot relations

rethinking human robot relations

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Closed

Special Issue on GENDERING ROBOTS (GenR): Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics

The field of HRI is increasingly employing humanoid robots and anthropomorphic designs to aid social interactions between humans and robots. However, designing robots with human-like characteristics can have...

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The road to successful HRI: trust, acceptance, ethics, social signals and AI

This Special Issue is based on the conjunction of the workshops SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human Robot Interaction) and TRAITS (The Road to a successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethicS) respectiv...

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Closed